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L E T T E R S Reaction to “The Argonaut Interview: Mike Bonin on the Homelessness Crisis,” Cover Story, Oct. 3: Encampments Post Critical Safety Concerns “Where does services end and enforcement begin?” This was such an important question that I feel Bonin basically dodged.

I live right next to one of the biggest encampments in Mar Vista, and it is incredibly unsafe

for both the people living in the encampment and the surrounding residents. The amount of drug use and drug dealing that goes on is beyond the pale, and people have psychotic episodes in our alley on a regular basis. I have been chased to my car and sexually harassed, and I have had to call 911 while I watched someone high on drugs threaten my husband’s life in our alley.

Even worse, there are drug dealers and gangs fighting over

the encampment, which has brought tagging and multiple shootings. I am worried someone in the encampment or a surrounding resident will be hurt or killed. I’m also concerned about the urination and feces all over our alley and neighborhood. It’s one of the most unsafe situations I’ve ever witnessed, and I just cannot fathom how it is allowed.

Diana Sieker Mar Vista

Malicious Comments are Misdirected Energy Thank you for running the interview with Councilman Mike Bonin. There seems to be such vitriol aimed at him on social media regarding the homelessness crisis. I’m glad The Argonaut helped Councilman Bonin give us his perspective. While some might not agree with his solutions to the problem, we can see that he is strongly committed to trying to

address it. Cowardly cheapshots and casting blame does not help anyone. Worse, it pits us against one another and deflects energy away from this big challenge.

Anthony Dukes Mar Vista It’s Not Just a Homegrown Problem A lot of heart, not a lot of smart. This is a national issue being played out in our neighborhoods. The states that Greyhound their “homeless” here should be bearing the costs and the inconveniences. Having lost bikes and patience, I believe Bonin and Garcetti are aiming for prominence at our expense.

Stephen Salko Santa Monica What Are You Doing to Help?

Hurrah for Mike Bonin! I’m a huge supporter and know his heart is in the right place. You can’t change in a few years what has taken decades to create.

People who aren’t doing anything personally to make life better for anyone else or engage in a positive way don’t deserve a seat at the table. Instead of trolling those who are trying to make a difference on social media, they should get off their asses and be part of the solution.

John Sharpe Westchester *** Word Choice Can Say a Lot Re: “Debra Bowen was David to Tenet’s Goliath,” Letters, Aug. 29 In an otherwise useful letter, why does Dr. Helman have to slide into the slimy and disgusting coupling of “homelessness” and “vermin-associated disease”? Such casual, stereotypical and thoughtless remarks don’t help.

Thank you, Argonaut, for all your great work!

Ambrose Terrence Marina del Rey

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Domestic Violence and Homelessness: A Convergence of Public Health Crises ..... 6 Rent Hike Forces Closure of Windward Farms ..................................... 6

This ‘Old’ Pier House The successor of The Venice Terrace blends fresh ideas with nods to local history and culture .................................. 17

Vote16CulverCity Builds Support to Lower the Voting Age in City Elections ....... 8 Inflatable Dock Could Lift Efforts to Curb Copper Pollution in Marina del Rey ......... 10

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THE ADVICE GODDESS Same Mold, Same Mold If you keep dating duds, make a list of deal-breakers and enforce them before things get serious ................................... 25

The Things They Carried El Sueño Americano asserts the humanity of migrants through personal belongings confiscated at the border ........................ 12

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ARTS & EVENTS The Elephant in the Room “This Is Us” writer Bekah Brunstetter revisits her surrealist play about sex, virtue and predatory impulses ................................. 26

Matcha Lookin’ At? Green tea powder has become a star ingredient for coffees, snacks and desserts .......................................... 15

WESTSIDE HAPPENINGS Mark Twain’s Ghost Hosts a Halloween Haunt at LMU ........................................ 28

ON THE COVER: “Virgen de Mickey,” a photograph by Tom Kiefer. This high-quality Disney sweatshirt worn by a migrant who crossed the southern border was confiscated and discarded by immigration officials upon intake. Kiefer collected these and other discarded belongings to create his El Sueño Americano series, currently on exhibit at the Skirball Cultural Center. Image courtesy of Tom Kiefer and the Skirball. Design by Michael Kraxenberger.

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Domestic Violence and Homelessness: A Convergence of Public Health Crises It’s becoming increasingly apparent that many women sleeping on the streets are fleeing abuse

By Gary Walker This article was produced as a project for the USC Center for Health Journalism’s California Fellowship.

Women are among the fastest growing demographic joining the ranks of the homeless, and in an alarmingly high number of cases the reason is that they are fleeing violence from a spouse or domestic partner.

“I’ve been doing this for a long time and I’ve met a lot of women that were homeless, and there’s not one that I’ve met that hasn’t been leaving a domestic violence situation,” said Zack Coil, the program director of an outreach team for the Santa Monica-based social services agency The People Concern.

According to the 2018 Homeless Count by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, at least 1,788 of the 6,213 women who were homeless in L.A. County (29%) were on the streets due to being victims of domestic violence.

Coil thinks statistics about the number of homeless woman that have left violent situations are underreported.

unsheltered mothers with children had previously experienced domestic violence, says the Family & Youth Services Bureau of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. That includes a newly released study by the California Policy Lab at UCLA in which 80% of unsheltered women told researchers that abuse and trauma had led to them becoming homeless, compared to 34% of sheltered women and 38% of unsheltered men.

The Hope & Heart Project in East Los Angeles is a hospital-based shelter for victims of sexual and domestic violence.

— Carol Tantau “Never has there been a shelter inside of a hospital. This is the first of its kind in the nation,” Rebeca Melendez, director of services for the East Los Angeles Womjewelry and gift store Just Tantau on a public health epidemic is a big topic Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice for of debate among mental health profession- en’s Shelter said earlier this year.

Santa Monica Senior Advisor on Homenearly 30 years before moving her store to als,” she said. lessness Alisa Orduña noted that minorithe West Adams District four years ago.

The Los Angeles County Board of ties tend to be among the most victimized As the numbers of women fleeing Supervisors, which has declared October groups, both in homelessness and the dangerous situations and becoming to be “Domestic Violence Awareness homeless rises, one question is starting to Month,” joined others in calling domestic reasons why they wind up on the streets.

“Intimate partner violence and commutake shape: Should domestic violence violence a public health crisis during its nity violence are so chronic that we have been seen as a public health epidemic?

Oct. 1 meeting.

Tantau thinks it should have been years According to multiple studies of women ago. She’s been a support services and homelessness, at least 80% of (Continued on page 10) So does Carol Tantau, who serves on the Los Angeles Domestic Violence Alliance.

“There are many victims of domestic violence who are fleeing their batterer and they think it’s best not to be seen or heard. The numbers don’t reflect those who stay silent,” said Tantau, who owned

coordinator and peer counselor for 23 years at Sojourn, a domestic violence shelter run by The People Concern.

“We see it as a public health issue, and it is an epidemic. Over 95% of the victims that I’ve worked with have that experience, and whether it should be declared

“The numbers don’t reflect those who stay silent. … We see it as a public health issue, and it is an epidemic.”

120% Rent Hike Forces Closure of Windward Farms After 28 years — long enough to see Venice transform from being disparaged as the “slum by the sea” into one of the priciest real estate markets in Los Angeles — neighborhood market and deli Windward Farms expects to close by the end of October.

Recent 60-day notice of a 120% rent increase is to blame, said owner John Shin, who estimates he’d have to double his prices to stay afloat.

“We are being squeezed out by our landlord,” reads a note to customers posted on the door. “We are heartbroken that we can no longer be here to feed you. … We have seen your children grow up, and you have seen our children grow up.” Some of the market’s employees, it adds, will get jobs at nearby Hama Sushi, whose owners “live and breathe Venice.”

A few days ago, someone put a replica of artist Gustavo Zermeno’s mural of Venice founder Abbot Kinney panhandling for rent money on the upper right corner of the 1930 building’s brick façade. Shin, whose parents bought the market 23 years ago, has no plans to take it down.

“I grew up here and I’ve seen all the changes. It probably reached a high point a few years ago when Snapchat came in … then left a bunch of empty buildings and took a lot of jobs. It’s no longer a community anymore — it’s a place for rich people to invest in. You don’t see as many people who live here and own here,” he said. “It definitely feels like we’re going backward. The upper tier is buying it up; the bottom tier is homeless people from all over the country; the middle is gone.”

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$100 Tickets for Off-Leash Dogs at Oakwood Park

Gustavo Zermeno’s mural of a panhandling Abbot Kinney found its way onto the front of Windward Farms

Animal Control officers are now writing tickets for off-leash dogs at Oakwood Park, where arguments about park use have become a proxy battleground for concerns about longtime locals being pushed out by wealthier newcomers.

“We’ve had officers go by the park and they’ve seen people walking their dogs off leash, which is against park rules,” said city Animal Control Services General Manager Brenda Barnette.

Officers have issued three citations, she said, with fines for the first violation starting at $100. L.A. City Councilman Mike Bonin’s office had requested patrols of the park, she added.

Earlier this year, the city Department of Recreation and Parks sponsored a dog-training program that allowed off-leash exercise at Oakwood Park during early morning hours, but ended it on Aug. 31 after numerous complaints.

Some opponents reported frightening encounters with off-leash dogs; many more suspected they were being displaced from the neighborhood’s last public gathering space.

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Vote16CulverCity Builds Support to Lower the Voting Age in City Elections

By Jessica Koslow An organized group of 16- and 17-yearolds wants the right to vote in local elections. That’s the push behind the national campaign Vote16USA, which aims to raise awareness for this issue around the country.

Wait — don’t teens get in more car accidents? Aren’t they apathetic? These are the kinds of questions that Vote16CulverCity organizers Piper Samuels, Rebecca Rottenberg and Sarah Hager hear all the time, and a lot of the effort that goes into their campaign is to refute negative stereotypes about teens.

The three Culver City High School students are at the Veterans Memorial Building on a Wednesday night in mid-August to ask the Culver City Democratic Club for an endorsement.

They hope to build support for a proposed 2020 city ballot measure that would ask Culver City voters to lower the voting age to 16 for future city council elections.

And they’re making a very good case to this crowd of more than 60 club members, each of whom have chosen to commit at least two hours on a weeknight to staying engaged in local politics.

Members of the Culver City Democratic Club take their individual roles in democracy very seriously, and it shows.

They listen intently as the young women take turns speaking, each making specific arguments.

Hager starts off with science: There are two main types of thinking, hot and cold cognition. While hot cognition isn’t developed until age 25 (this results in the higher rate of teen car accidents), cold cognition — which relates to long-term decision-making — is developed at age 16.

The women point out that Vote16USA is supported by a number of American lawmakers, and list off other countries with lower voting ages. In two Maryland

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Vote16CulverCity organizers Sarah Hager (left), Piper Samuels and Rebecca Rottenberg snapped a photo with Culver City Councilman Daniel Lee at last month’s Climate Strike protest in downtown Los Angeles cities that have lowered the voting age to 16, voter turnout among 16- and 17-year olds exceeded all other age groups, they tell the crowd. And they emphasize studies that show voters in one election are 50% more likely to vote in the next. Voting becomes a habit, and they want local teens to get hooked while they’re young.

“We’re trying to create lifetime habitual voters,” Hager tells The Argonaut.

During the Q&A segment of their presentation, one man admits he didn’t want to endorse their group, but, to his surprise, he’s now a believer. And as it turns out, so is the entire club, which votes unanimously to endorse Vote16CulverCity.

After all, local issues such as emergency services, after-school programs and maintenance of public parks directly impact teens, argues Samuels. She adds that allowing teens to vote would invigorate high school civics programs and, if anyone is worried that knuckleheads will vote, Samuels assures that this initiative is not for them — it’s for teens like Samuels, Rottenberg and Hager, who take civic responsibility seriously.

“I don’t think teens are apathetic,” adds Samuels. “I think they don’t see an outlet with which to express their frustrations.”

Adding a bit of humor, Hager argues that “the badge of stupidity is not worn by teenagers, but humanity as a whole,” and proceeds to cite outrageous quotes

from the likes of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, President Richard Nixon and President George W. Bush.

Fast-forward to October, and Culver City officials are researching the city charter ahead of a future city council vote about whether to put the question to voters on the November 2020 ballot.

In the meantime, Vote16CulverCity organizers will lead a public town hall for Culver City residents on Saturday, Oct. 27, at The Wende Museum. The main objective is to speak to voters face-toface, as “political discussion online tends to be incredibly surface-level,” says Hager. Sorrento Italian Market, she adds, is showing its support for teen civic engagement by bringing some of their famous deli sandwiches.

Last year voters in Berkeley passed a measure to lower the voting age in local schoolboard elections to 16; Vote16CulverCity is targeting city elections because of differences in the municipal and school board charters, according to Hager.

Vote16CulverCity organizers are being mentored by Dr. Kelly Kent, president of the Culver City Unified School District Board of Education, who sat proudly in the audience during their presentation to the Culver City Democratic Club. She argues that well-informed students can offer forward-thinking insight into future impacts of decisions that may not occur to adult decision-makers.

“I’m working diligently on better engaging authentic student voices in policymaking decisions that so heavily impact the lives of students,” says Kent.

“This is an important opportunity to do exactly that.”

The Vote16CulverCity town hall is from 1 to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, at The Wende Museum, 10808 Culver Blvd., Culver City. Visit vote16culvercity.org for more information.

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Inflatable Dock Could Lift Efforts to Reduce Copper Pollution in Marina del Rey

By Gary Walker Environmental advocates and Los Angeles County officials are still exploring ways to keep copper particles that leach from painted boat hulls out of the waters of Marina del Rey, five years after a study by the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board detected some of the state’s highest levels of toxic copper pollution here.

Some alternative copper-free paints proved to be costly and controversial; now they’re looking at inflatable docks to keep painted hulls out of contact with the water, which would also reduce the need for scrubbing hulls.

In late September, about 20 local boat owners in Marina del Rey attended a demonstration of the FAB Dock — an in-water docking system with an inflatable rubber bed that keeps a boat’s hull out of the water while still secure in its slip.

Dean Howard, the device’s Australiabased inventor and manufacturer, joined the L.A. County Department of Beaches and Harbors at Anchorage 47 to show how the rear of the device deflates to allow a boat to embark from its slip and re-inflates once the vessel returns.

Once again, however, cost may be a concern. For a 28-foot watercraft, installing a FAB Dock would cost about $9,000, according to Howard, and for a custom sailboat perhaps twice that amount.

Michael Quill, marine programs director for the local water quality watchdog group Los Angeles WaterKeeper, expressed concerns about the

The inflatable FAB Dock keeps copper-painted boat hulls out of the water, but water quality experts worry about its novelty and cost FAB Dock’s price point and maintenance.

“My understanding is that we’d have to pay for additional slip length if we were to use such a device. The system I was introduced to added two to three feet to slip space needed to moor each boat, which would add to monthly slip rental fees,” noted Quill, whose organization maintains a powerboat in Marina del Rey. Jennifer Mongolo, a planner with the Department of Beaches and Harbors, said vessels moored in Marina del Rey are typically limited in how far their sterns

can extend beyond the slip. If a FAB Dock exceeds that limit, the boat’s owner would have to apply for a permit amendment or move to a longer slip.

“I think boat owners need to plan for the FAB Dock to extend about three feet past the end of their boat, but this should always be confirmed with the manufacturer for the model they would need,” Mongolo said.

Brock Cahill owns a 28-foot sailboat at Anchorage 47 and is a member of the Sea Change Agency, a nonprofit advocate for

Domestic Violence and Homelessness: A Convergence of Public Health Crises to continue to re-sensitize systems through trauma-informed care to identify and develop culturally competent intervention models,” said Orduña, who was a member of a 2017 LAHSA ad hoc committee on women and homelessness.

“There is also a racial bias element,” she said, “in that often times people of color are exposed to greater violence in the home and community — yet systems do not recognize nor offer healing spaces or intervention models to address these traumas, leading many into the criminal justice system for trauma related behaviors.”

Holly Davidson lived in a dilapidated van on 95th Street in the Manchester Square neighborhood of Westchester prior to Los Angeles International Airport clearing out a six-block area last year to make way for a consolidated rental car facility.

Davidson, 32, said she fled her home in 2014 after being beaten frequently by her

boyfriend and, after sleeping near a freeway overpass, wound up at Manchester Square — a dismal place of discarded bicycles and other debris strewn along 94th and 95th streets — for nearly three years. A slim woman with brown hair and purple highlights, Davidson hoped to find housing through People Assisting the Homeless but was not as confident as others who were able to leave Manchester Square.

“I might even end up back along the freeway,” she said. “I’m not sure.”

Tantau said it is common for women who are trying to escape a batterer to wind up in the same situation as Davidson unless they have a friend or relative who can help them.

“Often they have no other options. Over and over again we see women on the streets partnering with a man for protection, but the partner is also abusive very frequently,” she said.

As in most cases with homelessness,

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the protection of endangered marine species. He says keeping copper pollution out of the harbor means a lot to him.

“I’ve come to realize that bottom paint is quite toxic for the ecosystem,” Cahill said. “We’re doing our best to improve the ecosystem all over, and that starts with using one of these inflatable options instead of [re-applying] bottom paint every few years,” Cahill said.

Howard argues that FAB Dock users would reduce pollution and save money over time versus repeatedly cleaning hulls and reapplying paint.

“It was designed and built to keep your boat clean and dry, which means you don’t need to use poisonous toxic bottom paints and anti-fouling paint, and that’s good for the environment. There are no chemicals, and that saves fuel. Eventually, over a few years, the money you’d spend on normal maintenance for a boat that’s docked in saltwater now goes toward paying your FAB Dock off, so it’s good financially too,” Howard noted.

Heal the Bay water quality specialist Annelisa Moe said the inflatable device presents an interesting idea for boat owners.

“From what I have seen they are effective in reducing passive leaching of copper from the underside of boats while they are docked. Unfortunately, because they are so new, I have not seen much data about any potential side-effects of using this system,” Moe said.

See video of the FAB Dock in action at fabdock.com.

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finding safe and adequate housing for battered women and their children is not easy.

Tantau said health and domestic violence experts are not of one mind on how to help domestic violence survivors because survivors come from all types of ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds.

“Is it transitional or bridge housing, or more permanent housing? There isn’t one simple solution because some are ready to live on their own and others aren’t,” she said. “A woman who may be coming out of an abusive relationship might need a helping hand for six months to a year.

Someone with small children, they need other resources.”

Tantau mentioned one client who seems to be bouncing back somewhat after leaving her husband who had beaten her for years. She is in Sojourn’s six-month shelter and is taking courses on how to become a chef at an initiative sponsored

by St. Joseph Center, a Venice-based

social service agency.

“She can complete her training while she’s in our shelter, and once she leaves us she’ll have a better chance to get a better paying job,” Tantau said.

How do children who wind up homeless fare?

A 2018 study called “Falling through the Cracks: Graduation and Dropout Rates among Michigan’s Homeless High School Students” found that 20% of students who lacked “a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence” quit school, compared to 14% of economically disadvantaged students and 9% of all students. Homeless students also had a graduation rate of only 55%, compared to 68% for economically disadvantaged students and 80% statewide.

As of November 2018, there were 17,934 homeless youth enrolled in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

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THE THINGS THEY CARRIED El Sueño Americano asserts the humanity of migrants through personal belongings confiscated at the border

By Bliss Bowen Ritualistic aspects we normally associate with travel — plans, checklists, packing, safe passage — are upended by “El Sueño Americano | The American Dream: Photographs by Tom Kiefer,” opening this week at the Skirball Cultural Center. Each of the exhibit’s more than 100 images carefully frames personal belongings confiscated from refugees at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Baby shoes, jewelry, religious objects, cell phones, journals, medicine, toys, clothing, wallets: the photos range in mood and style from worshipful to Warholian; cumulatively, they make a damning statement about human nature and American democracy and character.

They also offer mute testimony that journeys lead to unexpected destinations, both for Kiefer and the displaced individuals whose aspirations his photos strive to respect.

Primitive Americana Born in Kansas and raised mostly in Seattle, Kiefer is a former Angeleno who took the scenic route into photography.

He studied graphic design in college because “photography at that time was too much of an exotic, expensive

discipline.” Ultimately, graphic design turned out to be an “incredible, essential part” of the tool bucket he still utilizes as a photographer. After working as a graphic designer in L.A. for almost a decade, he transitioned into selling antique cast-iron beds. In 1998 he sold his Atwater Village shop “with the express intent to do my photography, and travel in the footsteps of Walker Evans.”

As an antique dealer, he’d gravitated toward “primitive Americana — things that had a lived-in soul to it.” That theme recurs throughout his photography.

“The experience I had as a graphic designer and then having the antique store — I mean, talk about setting myself up for ‘El Sueño Americano,’” Kiefer says. “You could not have planned it.”

Three months after 9/11 he left L.A. for Arizona, in search of a home he could own and “a sense of community and safety — I didn’t want to be a nomad.” He settled in small, dusty Ajo, a former copper mining town 43 miles from the Mexico border in the Sonoran Desert. Kiefer, who leads a “very independent” life with his cat, says he did not want a “solitary existence.” But, he acknowledges, solitude “has allowed me to develop and grow, and to do this very intense project.”

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Symbols of Hope Landscaped with saguaro cacti and scenic vistas, the region lends itself to creative visions. When he first arrived, Kiefer shuttled between Ajo, Tucson and Phoenix with a Pentax camera, capturing black-and-white images that ultimately comprised his first major project, “Journey West”: midcentury road signs, carousel workers, crushed cars, wide-open skies, fenced-in yard dogs.

To support his art, Kiefer says he started working at the nearby U.S. Customs and Border Processing facility on July 7, 2003, mostly as a part-time janitor. Four years later, he was “fed up” with seeing “perfectly good canned food” flung into the trash — food that migrants had been forced to relinquish to CBP agents at the border.

“My parents grew up during the Depression, and you don’t throw away food,” he says. “I had to do something. The majority of the agents didn’t like seeing food thrown out either, so when I asked for permission to collect the food, the supervisor’s exact response was, ‘Bless you.’ Those were the sentiments: ‘Thank you for doing this.’ Little did I know…”

It was while retrieving those cans of food that Kiefer became aware of other

necessities piled in with garbage: Blankets, coins, medicine, shoes, shoelaces, toilet paper, toothbrushes and toothpaste.

Bibles, CDs, contraceptives, earbuds, letters, toys, work gloves. CBP agents had deemed them “nonessential” or “potentially lethal,” and taken them while processing migrants at the border. The volume of it all was staggering.

From a security perspective, impounding pocketknives or razors makes sense. But animal crackers? Stuffed animals? Soap?

Kiefer instinctively began tucking items into cardboard boxes in which he was collecting tossed food. He says he donated unopened jars of baby food, cans of tuna, dehydrated soup, beef jerky, candy and granola bars to a local food bank, and thousands of socks (mostly new) to homeless shelters, thrift shops and charities. Everything had been dumped in the trash.

“When you get arrested and you’re in jail, whatever they take from you, you get back when you’re released. But when you’re apprehended and taken to a processing center, there’s very little that you’re allowed to keep. Any extra clothing, mementos, a Bible, a rosary — they are confiscated and thrown in the trash. That’s just utter cruelty. We’re

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“I was like, ‘I’m not going to let this rosary or Bible stay in the trash. No. Uh-uh,’” he explains. “I was not thinking about, ‘What am I gonna do with all this?’ but: ‘No.’ Then finding a wallet, finding a brand new bottle of cologne — regarding the cologne, I had a very primitive [response]: ‘You’ve gotta be kidding me.

Why in the hell?’ I almost thought it was a joke. But then I kept finding bottles of cologne, and I started to put two and two together: ‘This represents something; they’re perhaps thinking about their first job interview, or being reunited with someone they haven’t seen in years.’ It was a symbol of hope.

“Later, when I started researching, I stumbled across the fact that the high alcohol content of all these colognes acted like a medicinal first aid for scratches.”

While gathering those personal talismans, did he feel like he was holding a story in his hands? Like a protective priest?

“I felt like I was doing something that needed to be done,” he says. “Because if I didn’t recover these materials, who would have believed me?”

graphically. He got a digital camera in 2012 and the following year grouped more than two dozen black combs and brushes on a black cloth; looking at what he’d photographed, he had a “this is it” moment. It was the starting point of what became “El Sueño Americano.”

That picture is chilling, and not just because of its monochromatic tone.

Several combs look sturdy and brand new, but most have the discolored, bent

symbolically suggestive, and often touching — particularly religious keepsakes, like Virgen de Guadalupe totems and blue, pocket-sized copies of the New Testament with Psalms and Proverbs.

Details unlock stories: Clean polo shirts.

Mud-rimmed rubber duckies that had marked trails. Water canteens armored for desert crossings with duct tape or cloth.

Weathered leather wallets with prayer cards — and sometimes IDs — folded

He’s been ranked as one of LensCulture’s Top 50 Emerging Talents and included in Photolucida’s Top 50 Critical Mass.

In March 2017, New Yorker magazine published Peter C. Baker’s photo-illustrated story about “El Sueño Americano.” It went viral. As the Trump administration escalated family separations and deportations at the border, Kiefer’s heart-gripping pictures of confiscated rosaries and rings exploded across social media platforms.

‘This is like Ellis Island’ Now working out of a studio instead of “Any extra clothing, mementos, a Bible, his home, Kiefer says he occasionally a rosary — they are confiscated and thrown encounters former co-workers at checkpoints or the local grocery store. Some in the trash. That’s just utter cruelty. agents are cordial; some avoid him. He We’re talking about, at base, stripping away shrugs off friction with a chuckle.

“My sole work is ‘El Sueño Americano | people’s identity, their humanity.”

The American Dream,’” he says. “That’s — Tom Kiefer all I’m doing. I’m continuing to shoot new work from the objects I recovered. I’ll be doing this [laughs] until I die … the volume is just unimaginable. One day, this appearance of implements that have been inside. A sepia-toned mandala of belts whole archive, this whole collection is yanked through greased hair and shoved coiled in concentric circles. A defiant going to be donated to a university or in and out of pockets countless times. display of lipsticks, eye shadow, nail some facility like that so this can be part Metallic threads split from a worn elastic polish, and a rainbow-embroidered of our historical record. hair band like the human hairs still lodged compact — and the backdrop cloth “This is like Ellis Island. More people in unwashed brushes; their intimacy imprinted with their outlines after the come through this particular region induces a shiver. Another collection of makeup’s been removed, like footprints ‘El Sueño Americano’ — southwestern Arizona, the Tucson combs is no less emotionally gripping for left by ghosts.

This was during the George W. Bush being composed in brilliant hues of Kiefer kept rescuing food and belongings sector, the Ajo corridor — than any other administration, which in 2005 controversection of the border. It’s like the Ellis Disney princess pink. from the trash throughout the Bush and sially (and expensively) responded to an Island of the desert.”

Assembling such objects en masse Obama administrations until, in 2014, he uptick in undocumented immigrant border became an organizing principle. Their Kiefer plans to attend the opening of the finally quit his job with the CBP in crossings with its “zero tolerance” Skirball exhibit, which will also feature monumental quantity speaks to the scale disgust. The following year, he went Operation Streamline, introduced in video interviews with immigrants who’ve of the interlocked crises — poverty, public with “El Sueño Americano.” He’s Tucson in 2008. By then Kiefer sensed his violence, climate change, starvation — crossed the U.S.-Mexico border. He veers shown it at a handful of art spaces and burgeoning collection represented that are driving refugees to the U.S.-Mexi- fairs around the country, though none, he something he could work with photoco border. One by one, items are prosaic, says, were “at the scale” of the Skirball.

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Matcha comes from specially grown green tea leaves which have been ground into a fine powder. In its pure form, it has a grassy, slightly bitter flavor.

With its natural caffeine content, national chain coffeehouses have incorporated matcha powder into their menus in the form of green tea lattes. But a number of local spots have made matcha their focus, creating specialty beverages, pastries and even ice creams.

Matcha is also rich in antioxidants and amino acids, which some studies have found help protect cells from damage and boost immunity. So it’s no surprise that the Westside has embraced this healthy ingredient.

Here are some favorite local matcha specialty stores: Shuhari Matcha Café Shuhari is modeled after a traditional Japanese café and imports matcha weekly from Japan, where its owner Taku Maeda is from. Mindful of its health-conscious surroundings, Shuhari has a station of sweeteners where their signature matcha lattes can be customized to taste.

Many customers upgrade from the culinary grade matcha to organic ($1 more) or ceremonial ($2 more). “Ceremonial grade matcha is the highest grade of matcha,” explains assistant

manager Kaitlyn Magnuson. “It’s not USDA-approved organic, but deeper in color and richer.”

For those looking for a sweet treat, Shuhari has non-dairy organic matcha soft serve, derived from a coconut probiotic.

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Cha Cha’s specialty items include the Nitro Latte, a nitro-infused version of their popular drink that has a foamy, frothy texture. There’s also a red matcha latte made with red bean paste for those wanting something slightly sweeter.

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Matcha Cha Not to be confused with Cha Cha Matcha, the inversely named Matcha Cha is a cute coffeeshop and confectionary located at the south end of Sawtelle Japantown in West L.A. Cha Cha Matcha Upon entering, patrons are struck with Across the street from Shuhari is Cha the inviting scent of warm waffle cones, Cha Matcha. Whereas Shuhari is Zen-like, the base for their most popular seller: Cha Cha is bold, with it’s bright pink and matcha ice cream. green palette and the sound of rock music An assortment of matcha-based extras and nitrous machines blasting. can be added to the dairy ice cream, “The store is different than a normal including a dark green matcha drizzle, coffee shop. There’s usually loud music matcha powder, and warabi matchaplaying, super cool merchandise, interest- starch dumplings covered in matcha ing paintings and records on the wall,” powder. Other popular toppings include store manager Colby Demarco describes. chocolate syrup, mochi balls, and Pocky.

Cha Cha uses a proprietary blend of The ice cream also comes as a matchaimported ceremonial-grade matcha in all strawberry swirl, in a beautiful pale pink of their products. Each of their drinks gets and green that delights the eyes as well as a carefully measured amount of matcha: the tastebuds.

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Chitchat Coffee + Matcha. As the name implies, Chitchat specializes in lattes and matcha beverages. With its lush plant wall, the inside feels greener than the outside patio.

Their signature drink is The Incredible Hulk. “It’s a matcha latte sweetened with vanilla and topped off with a double shot of espresso,” barista Iris Orozco says of the strongly caffeinated creation.

There’s also matcha croissants baked at Pitchoun; golden pastries glazed with a dark green ribbon of matcha. Visually, they’re stunning, but don’t expect a very strong matcha flavor, which would compete with the butteriness of the croissant.

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Walk-up orders are taken at the window.

Koala Matcha specializes in one drink: the collagen-infused iced matcha latte.

In addition to the caffeine energy boost, this recipe — perfected in Australia, hence the name — contains the highestgrade of marine collagen, which helps repair the skin after a long day in the Santa Monica sun.

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The new concept wants you to feel as though the restaurant has been a part of Venice since Abbot Kinney opened his Coney Island on the Pacific more than a century ago. The interior is decorated with historic postcards of Venice displayed as treasured memorabilia, homages to The Doors and Steve Nicks (photographed for People magazine on the rooftop of her Venice condo), and even vintage fortune-teller cards in a nod to Venice’s colorful past.

“They spent a lot of time collecting these items and putting them together to give it that vintage vibe, like it’s been sitting here a long time,” says founder & CEO of Create Hospitality Lauren Koeppe, who consulted the Venice Restaurant Group (also behind The Venice Whaler) on bringing the “story” of Pier House to life as the restaurant’s creative director.

At the same time, key architectural elements from the old Terrace still remain.

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Next door, sister grab-and-go But the Pacific Rim is wellcafé Cartolina (which means represented, too. Pier House’s big “Postcard” in Italian) offers eye tuna tartare exudes a Japaquick bites just steps away from nese influence with huge hunks the pier. Sip coffee under a big of fish and avocado heaped onto red umbrella in the morning, split a sesame-seed encrusted rice a pizza at lunch, or just grab a tea cake with nori and sweet soy or tonic to go. glaze. The kanpachi (a Baja fish) “People are on their bikes, with strawberry aguachile, they’re roller skating, they’re in jicama, tomato and cilantro is a movement in this neighborhood,” nod to Mexico and its culinary says Koeppe, “so to act as a influence on California, notes neighborhood amenity is [the Koeppe. aim].”

For the cocktail menu, Pier With its balance of simple House tapped cocktail menu beach fare with elevated coastal consultants Barlingual to create chic, Pier House hopes to be a what Koeppe calls an “approach- place where both locals and able” lineup of “beach renditions tourists can feel at home. of classic cocktails” — in other “You can sit at the bar and have words, drinks “you want to have a cocktail or happy hour, or you by the beach on a warm day” and can come and have a beautiful that pair well with seafood. bottle of wine and eat steak The Baja Spritz adds tequila to on a special occasion,” says Aperol and sparkling wine for an Koeppe. “So it’s for locals and extra kick. The house skinny tourists, and can really fit any margarita is made with a butterfly occasion.”

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A Seller’s Guide to Navigating the Home Inspection Once the buyer has made, and you’ve accepted, the offer, your home will get the once-over from the buyer’s home inspector. The inspection is usually a contingency of the offer, meaning the buyer can back out based on serious problems discovered.

During the home inspection, an inspector will examine the property for flaws. Based on the inspector’s report the buyer will typically give you a list of repairs requests.

Your agent will work with you to negotiate those requests. Don’t want to be responsible for a repair?

(Maybe it’s best if the buyer has the fix made by their own contractor anyway.) Your agent may be able to negotiate a price credit with the buyer instead.

By the way, inspections aren’t necessarily a big, scary deal. Your agent will help advise you about repairs you need to make before the inspection. In fact, he may have made those recommendations to you even before you put the home on the market.

In addition, back when you put the home on the market, you were required to disclose to buyers the home’s “material defects” — anything you know about the home that can either have a significant impact on the market value of the property or impair the safety of the house for occupants. Material defects tend to be big underlying problems, like foundation cracks, roof leaks, basement flooding, or termite infestation.

What a Home Inspection Covers Depends on the Home Property’s inspection may vary. But home inspectors typically look at the following areas during a basic inspection: • Plumbing systems • Electrical systems • Kitchen appliances • Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning • Doors and windows •

Attic insulation • Foundation and basement • Exterior (e.g., siding, paint, outdoor light fixtures) • Grounds What a home inspection won’t cover is the unseen.

Your inspector isn’t going to rip open walls, mountaineer on the roof, check soils and landscaping, or thoroughly check and test all appliances.

you will be ready for an inspection.

So What Do You Need to Fix? A home inspection report is by no means a to-do list of things that you must address. Many home repairs, including cosmetic issues and normal wear and tear, are negotiable. There are, however, three occasionally overlapping types of repairs that sellers are typically required to deal with after a home inspection: 1. Structural defects. This is any physical damage to the load-bearing elements of a home; these issues include a crack in the foundation, roof framing damage, and decaying floorboards.

2. Safety issues. Homes for sale have to meet certain safety standards. Depending on where you live, safety issues that you, the seller, may have to address could include mold problems, wildlife infestation, or exposed electrical wiring.

3. Building code violations. Violations — such as the absence of smoke detectors, use of non-flame retardant roofing material, and use of lead paint after 1978 — must be addressed by the seller.

Again, addressing these might take the form of a credit on the price, which in the case of structural issues could be sizeable.

• Make sure your home is squeaky clean — a good first impression will set a positive tone. Take time to declutter and deep clean the whole house.

Use This Checklist to Prepare for a Home Inspection If you take these steps (with your agent’s assistance)

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• Assemble your paperwork. Transparency is key. Ideally, you’ll have summaries or invoices of renovations, maintenance, and repairs you’ve done on your home that you can provide to the home buyer.

Create a file that collects this documentation and share it with the buyer.

• Remove any obstacles. Take measures to ensure the inspector has complete access to all facets of the property.

• Leave the utilities on. For the home inspector to test items such as the stove, dishwasher, furnace, and air conditioning system, the utilities must be connected regardless of whether the house is vacant.

Otherwise, the inspector may need to reschedule, which can potentially push back closing.

• Fix minor problems ahead of time. Many cosmetic issues are minor and easy to fix, but they can make buyers more concerned about how well you’ve maintained other areas of the home. Take care of small problems yourself before the buyer’s inspection.

1. Agree to make reasonable repairs. Unless your house is flawless — be prepared to receive repair requests from the buyer. You don’t have to offer to fix everything that buyer asks of you, but you should take responsibility for major issues.

2. Offer a closing cost credit. Don’t want to deal with the hassle of making or ordering home repairs yourself? Ask your agent to offer the buyer a credit at closing for the estimated costs. This can also help you avoid complaints from the buyer over the quality of the workmanship, since you won’t be the one overseeing the repairs.

3. Barter. One way to smooth things over with a buyer and keep the deal moving forward is to offer something of value that’s unrelated to the requested repairs. For example, if you know the buyer loves the new couch or bedroom set you bought, you could offer to leave it behind in exchange for making fewer repairs.

4. Leverage the market. You may have more negotiating power depending on where you live. In a hot seller’s market, for instance, you might be in the position to offer the buyer fewer repairs, especially if you have another buyer eager to make an offer.

Home inspection may sound like a burdensome process, but when you cross it off your list, you’re readier than ever to jump to the next level — and into your life’s newest phase.

When it comes to repairs, your agent will haggle with the buyer’s agent for you — though it’s ultimately your decision as to how you want to respond to the buyer’s T H I S W E E K ’ S Q U E S T I O N WAS ANSWERED BY home repair requests.

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THE RID CARPET

When you break up with a romantic partner, there are comforting clichés you can trot out, like “It’s not you; it’s me,” “You deserve better,” and “We can still be friends.” When you break up with a friend, where do you go with that? “We can still be people who hide behind mall kiosks so they don’t have to speak to each other”?

It helps to understand the underpinnings of friendship. We like to think of ourselves as rational and discerning people with very good taste, and naturally we believe this shapes our choice of friends. In fact, personality psychologist Mitja Back and his colleagues find that a major driver of whom we’re friends with is “mere proximity” — living on the same block, working together, or, in Back’s study, being randomly assigned seats next to

each other in a college class.

Location, location, location! Really special, huh?

Still, maybe you feel a little guilty about exiling these ladies from your life, because you used them to have some somebodies around when you knew nobody. However, they hung out with you willingly. It’s not like you were some odious character they were forced to go to brunch with at gunpoint.

The kindest approach, of course, is to keep distancing yourself and hope they get the message or just give up on trying to get together. You do say that the “take the hint!” approach hasn’t been working. But are their calls and texts so screechingly bothersome that it’s worth it to go all rip-the-Band-Aidoff? If you decide it is, you could say, “You guys have been so kind to me, and I’ve enjoyed our times together, but I’ve gone through some personal changes and I don’t think we’re such a great match anymore.”

Be prepared: They may press you to tell them more. For maximum kindness, stick to this sort of vague statement.

Don’t go all truthful on them: They were human placeholders, the sidewalk furniture of friends, like curbside chairs you dragged home so you wouldn’t have to ask your dates, “Hey, wanna stand in my living room and watch Netflix?”

SAME MOLD, SAME MOLD I seem to keep getting together with the same messed up guy over and over again. Basically, the men I’m attracted to all have the same issues (emotionally unavailable, fear of commitment, etc.). Each time I tell myself I can make things different. How do I stop doing this?

— Broken Picker Your problem isn’t being attracted to guys who turn out to be messed up. It’s going forward with them after you discover that. It’s like seeing the sign “Shark-Infested Waters” and then saying to yourself, “They probably just say that so the lifeguards don’t have so much work. And I mean, do I really need my arms? Both arms?”

Research by psychologist Roy Baumeister on self-regulation — professorese for self-control — finds that it has four components: standards, motivation to meet those standards, self-monitoring to make sure you’re doing that, and the will to control urges to do what you know you shouldn’t be doing.

You probably believe you have standards, but chances are you

haven’t thought them out to the point that you can tick off what they are. Not having a solid grasp on them means you can’t monitor whether you’re following them and take action if you aren’t. Now’s the time to change that.

Write down a list of your standards: your must-haves for a guy you’re with; the qualities you can’t do without.

When you’re interested in a guy, don’t just hope he hits the marks; ask questions that draw out the sort of man he is and also look at his behavior. If he falls short of your standards, make yourself move on. Yes, make yourself.

This will be hardest the first time and if you really like a particular guy. Eventually, it’ll become easier to weed out the guys with issues, though you may need to work on your own before you’re comfortable with guys who’d make you happy. Should you find yourself jonesing for a project, opt for something safe, like gluing elbow macaroni all over your car, as opposed to being like the storm chaser dude who’s all surprised when he gets blown into the next state and impaled by rebar.

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4Fingers also serves fried drumsticks, sandwiches made with freshly baked buns, rice boxes and salads. As a side, choose from Japanese rice, seaweed, kimchi-flavored skinny fries, or kimchi

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The Sawtelle restaurant opened Sept. 18 and is the popular Asian fast-casual chain’s first U.S. outpost, adding to a portfolio that includes more than 30 locations throughout Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Australia.

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By Christina Campodonico Can elephants experience PTSD? That’s just one question TV writer-producer Bekah Brunstetter’s surrealist play “Miss Lilly Gets Boned” ponders. Now playing as part of Rogue Machine’s current season at the Electric Lodge, the absurdist play (with a heavy dash of magical realism) also explores the complications of virginity after age 30 and predatory sexual impulses.

Miss Lilly (played by Larisa Oleynik) is a saintly Sunday school teacher saving herself for marriage. She falls in love with a seductively charming archaeology professor and widower named Richard (Iman Nazemzadeh; Nick Lee), whose wife was killed by a rogue elephant in Africa.

That elephant — embodied as a lifesized puppet operated by three performers — makes appearances throughout the play during sessions with animal researcher Dr. Vandalla Bhalla (Kavi Ladnier), who acts more like a sympathetic therapist than a hardened veterinary scientist. The paths of Miss Lilly and the elephant continue to intersect in unlikely ways. (Think elephant bones falling from the ceiling.)

While the premise may sound farfetched, it’s actually based on a real-life New York Times Magazine article from 2006, titled “An Elephant Crackup?”, about grief-stricken, orphaned elephants.

“It’s about this generation of elephants that are growing up with no supervision because they witnessed their parents getting poached, and they have become this whole generation of elephants that have been lashing out and murdering tourists and killing rhinoceroses,” says Brunstetter, who reworked portions of “Miss Lilly Gets Boned” for its West Coast debut at Rogue Machine. “The article really posits that it’s like they’re human beings, they’re like children who grew up without their parents. … I read it and I was just like, ‘This is a play.’”

The play’s initial U.K. run in 2010 became one of Brunstetter’s earliest plays of note; since then she’s gone on to write and produce for the hit NBC family drama “This Is Us” and Starz’ surrealist serialization of Neil Gaiman’s fantasy novel “American Gods.”

Brunstetter also made a splash in L.A.’s theater world with “The Cake,” a provocative dramedy on baking and matrimony. Ripped from the headlines, that one explores the emotional dilemma of a North Carolina baker with conservative religious values who wrestles with making a cake for the wedding of a dear deceased friend’s daughter to another woman.

Bekah Brunstetter’s Lilly is partly a reimagining of herself, if she’d stuck with the conservative Christian values of her upbringing

Iman Nazemzadeh as Richard and Larisa Oleynik as Miss Lilly in the Rogue Machine production of “Miss Lilly Gets Boned”

“Miss Lilly Gets Boned” similarly wrestles with traditional religious values through its titular 35-year-old protagonist, who after dutifully saving herself for marriage her entire life begins to contemplate changing course on her faith’s strict no-sex-before-marriage rule when the suave (and to a certain degree sexually predatory) Richard enters her life.

In one way, “Miss Lilly Gets Boned” eerily echoes the epidemic of sexual

of Marriage Act, which defined marriage exclusively as between one man and one woman).

“Only until I was like 19 or 20, I was totally like saving myself for marriage and definitely went through high school in that mindset,” says Brunstetter, three years married, who playfully adds, “I’m not a virgin. … Sorry, mom.

“A lot of times when I write a play, I’m just putting myself in an exaggerated

“I think it was just me imagining who I would have become had I continued down that path.”

— Bekah Brunstetter manipulation, violence, harassment and abuse brought to light by the Time’s Up and #MeToo movements, though written over a decade before either came into being.

In another way, it’s almost like a thought experiment — Brunstetter’s way of imagining her life if she’d stuck with some of the formative Christian beliefs imparted by her churchgoing family and conservative community while growing up in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

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version of something that’s happened to me,” she continues, “so I think it was just me imagining who I would have become had I continued down that path.”

Returning to “Miss Lilly Gets Boned” was also an opportunity for Brunstetter to revisit an earlier “slightly younger, darker, more aggressive version” of herself, she reflects.

“It’s kind of like when you find a picture of yourself from 10 years ago and you’re like, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe that I used to wear that!’ But also you’re fond of the person, and you

remember them very clearly,” she says.

Even so, Brunstetter struggled with not tweaking her play too much.

“It’s so hard, ’cause you’ll break your play. Like, if you keep trying to rewrite it, you’ll ruin it,” she says. “So it’s just really delicate work.”

These days, Brunstetter is busy working on more commercial projects for the screen and stage — a TV series based on Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma,” a movie version of “The Cake,” and a musical adaptation of “The Notebook” — her self-care routine, and building her family through assisted reproductive technology, which she chronicles openly and with candor on her personal blog.

“It’s like a little purge place for me,” she says, where she can “feel accomplished in small ways” with daily or every-other-day posts.

But playwriting remains her preferred place to puzzle out life’s larger queries — like whether pachyderms experience PTSD. “The plays are totally like therapeutic exercises for me,” she says.

Rogue Machine’s production of “Miss Lilly Gets Boned” continues through Oct. 28 at The Electric Lodge, 1416 Electric Ave., Venice. Tickets are $25 to $39. Visit roguemachinetheatre.net for showtimes.

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Compiled by Christina Campodonico & Matt Rodriguez Thursday, Oct. 17

Venice Art Crawl Mixer, 6 to 10 p.m.

Sample vegan eats from the Pizza Plant Food truck and meet local artists, merchants and view art by local artists at Amiga Wild, 2124 Lincoln Blvd., Venice. $5. (310) 913-1942; amigawild.com LinkedIn Local at The Bungalow, 6 to 9 p.m. Network with other professionals while enjoying live music, food and cocktails. The Bungalow Santa Monica, 101 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica. $15 to $25. eventbrite.com Westside Food Bank Meet & Greet at Firestone Walker, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Exchange a box of cereal or granola bars for a $5 beer as you learn how to contribute to ending hunger in Los Angeles. Firestone Walker Propagator, 3205 Washington Blvd., Venice. Free with food donation. facebook.com/westsidefoodbank Juliana Riccardi Live, 7 to 10 p.m.

Catch the up-and-coming musician Juliana Riccardi at her weekly residency at Atmosphere. Bonnie Raitt and Van Morrison influence her blues and soul-infused style and set list, which includes renditions of classics

by CCR, the Stones, Tom Petty and The Doors. Atmosphere Café, 12034 Venice Blvd., Mar Vista. Free. atmospheremarvista.com Kosher Pickles, 7 to 10 p.m. The new Open Temple’s Men’s Club meets to discuss “Happiness at Harvard” and the “Science of the Secret.” Husbands, fathers, brothers, significant others and friends with Y chromosomes welcome. 1422 Electric Ave., Venice.

(310) 821-1414; opentemple.org

Westside Comedy Festival, 8 to 10:30 p.m. Thursday, 6 p.m. to midnight Friday, 6 to 10:30 p.m. Sunday. Laugh with improv troupes and special guest celebrities during this multi-day comedy festival. M.i’s Westside Comedy Theater, 1323-A Third Street Promenade. $10+. (310) 451-0850; westsidecomedy.com Clique: A Community-Building Workshop at BFF Festival, 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Come to Santa Monica Playhouse to learn community-building exercises. Johanna Middleton leads a workshop guiding attendees through partnered reflection, storytelling and other activities. Santa Monica Playhouse, 1211 4th St., Santa Monica.

Free with reservation. (310) 394-9779; santamonicaplayhouse.com

Friday, Oct. 18

Twisted Tales Haunted House on Grand, 6 to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 4 p.m. Sunday. Experience your favorite fairy tales with a twist.

This haunted house explores alternate endings to classic tales such as “Hansel and Gretel,” “Beauty and the Beast” and “Alice in Wonderland.” El Segundo Teen Center, 401 Sheldon St., El Segundo. $15 to $20. elsegundorotary.org Marina del Rey Film Festival, Friday, Oct. 18 through Thursday, Oct. 24. The Marina del Rey Film Festival kicks off with a celebration at the Warehouse Restaurant (4499 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey) at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, followed by a slew of screenings at HHLA’s Cinemark 18 & XD (6081 Center Dr., Westchester) from 10 a.m. to midnight daily through Oct. 24.The Proud Bird (11022

Aviation Blvd., Westchester) hosts an awards show on Friday, Oct. 25. marinadelreyfilmfestival.com

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Dan Rosenboom Residency at Sam First, 8 to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Trumpet player and composer Dan Roseboom leads a stellar quartet through two sets (one at 8 p.m. and one at 9:30 p.m.), with special guest Joshua White sitting in on Friday. Sam First, 6171 W. Century Blvd., Westchester. $15 to $20. (424) 800-2006; samfirstbar.com Greg Loiacono at McCabe’s, 8 p.m.

Mother Hips guitarist and vocalist Greg Loiacono teams up with special guests Scott Hirsch and Lauren Barth for an intimate concert at McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. $25. (310) 828-4497; mcabes.com

Saturday, Oct. 19 Halloween Hullabaloo, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Start Halloween early at Platform Park with treats, face-painting, storytelling and an assortment of activities at various stations. Platform, 8850 Washington Blvd., Culver City. platformla.com Dogs on Deck Cruise, 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Hop aboard and relax on a two-hour cruise for pups and pup-parents. Enjoy the lunch and cash bar while your dog feasts on doggie treats and a buffet. Fisherman’s Village, 13755 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey. $63+. hornblower.com “Mexican American Baseball on the Westside of Los Angeles” Book Discussion, 1 p.m. Dr. Richard (Continued on page 28)

Designs by Brooks + Scarpa seek sustainable approaches to city living Architecture is unavoidable art. The design, height, positioning and location of buildings in public and private spaces are major determining factors of a city’s quality of life. A new exhibit at the 18th Street Arts Center’s Airport Gallery also considers density of housing as it relates to the affordability and sustainability of life in Los Angeles.

“DENSE-CITY: Housing for Quality of Life and Social Capital” features models, plans, drawings and other visualizations by Brooks + Scarpa — a Hawthorne-based architecture and design collective that specializes in compact and sustainable housing — that are intended to provoke thought about “healthier approaches” to urban residential planning.

A special section features “The Nest,” a prefabricated “kit-of-parts” adaptable to varying lot conditions that (in collaboration with the Community Corp. of Santa Monica and manufacturer Plant Prefab) recently won funding in the Los Angeles County Housing Innovation Challenge. On Nov. 12, the gallery hosts a panel on the solutions to the housing crisis.

— Joe Piasecki ‘DENSE-CITY’ opens with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m.

Friday (Oct. 19) and remains on display through Dec. 14 at 18th Street Arts Center’s Airport Gallery, 3026 Airport Ave., Santa Monica.

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Strains of Hitchcock:“Dial M for Murder” @ Westchester Playhouse Hitchcock’s 1954 film starring Grace Kelly made this story of a tennis pro who plans to off his wife famous, but before that it was a hit on the British stage and TV. The Kentwood Players bring this suspenseful thriller back for live audiences.

Last shows: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday (Oct.18 & 19) at Westchester Playhouse, 8301 Hindry Ave., Westchester. $22+. (310) 645-5156; kentwoodplayers.org

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The Vanishing Point @ Highways Performance Space Set in Los Angeles’ art scene, this musical follows star-crossed lovers Giles and Melody as they battle with gallery owner Marjon … and each other.

One performance only: 8:30 p.m.

Saturday (Oct. 19) at Highways Performance Space, 1651 18th St., Santa Monica. $15 to $20. (310) 453-1755; highwaysperformance.org

Lee Margaret Hanson and Pierre Adeli in The Actors’ Gang’s “1984” An Assortment of Plays: The Binge Fringe Festival of Free Theatre (BFF) @ Santa Monica Playhouse Billed as the “only free theater festival on the West Coast,” this annual celebration of the dramatic arts features 55 plays, musicals, workshops and cultural exchange events all for, you guessed it, free! This week, dive into a pair of friends’ midlife crises with the short

play “June Lake”; “Tabula Rasa” offers a satire of the art world; and Marilyn Anderson teaches audiences how to “Live like a Millionaire when You’re a Million Short.”

Now playing at various times from Oct. 12 to 27 at Santa Monica Playhouse, 1211 4th St., Santa Monica. Free with RSVP. (310) 394-9779; santamonicaplayhouse.com

The Meaning of Godot:“On Beckett” @ Kirk Douglas Theatre The great Tony Award-winning actor, comedian and clown Bill Irwin tackles the oeuvre of Samuel Beckett from the perspective of a master performer. In this intimate 90-minute show, he asks the audience to join him in experiencing Beckett’s language in compelling new ways — employing dance, slapstick and vaudevillian antics to illuminate the legendary playwright’s take on humanity.

Now playing at 8 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays, and 1 and 6:30 p.m. Sundays through Oct. 27 at Kirk Douglas Theater, 9820 Washington Blvd., Culver City. $30 to $75. (213) 628-2772; centertheatregroup.org Literary Roundabouts:“In Circles” @ Odyssey Theatre Recasting Gertrude Stein’s famously “nonlinear prose” in ragtime, tango, waltz, jazz, opera and even barbershop quartet settings, Al Carmines’ plotless 1967 off-Broadway work “In Circles” puts a diverse musical spin on the Lost Generation eccentric’s controversial “there is no there there” literary saying.

Now playing at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and at 2 p.m. Sundays (plus some Wednesday and Thursday shows) through Nov. 10 at Odyssey Theatre, 2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd., West L.A. $17 to $37. (310) 4772055, ext. 2; odysseytheatre.com Big Brother Returns:“1984” @ The Actors’ Gang Michael Gene Sullivan’s dark and twisty adaptation of Orwell’s literary classic, directed by Academy Award winner Tim Robbins, returns to Culver City after a world tour. Winston Smith hates his job in a government bureau that rewrites history, but even amid prying eyes and screens he starts to feel the stirrings of rebellion — and something else that feels a lot like love.

Now playing at 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays (and 2 p.m. some Sundays) through Dec. 7 at The Actors’ Gang, 9070 Venice Blvd., Culver City. Tickets are $25 for preview shows on Oct. 17 & 18 and start at $34.99 after that. (310) 838-4264; theactorsgang.com

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Santillan, author and founding member of the Latino Baseball History Project, discusses his new book about Mexican-American baseball on the Westside and the historic role it played as a social and cultural force and point of community pride. Meeting Room B, Central Library, 630 W. Fifth St., downtown Los Angeles. (213) 228-7272 Haunting of Hannon IV: “Dead in the West,” 2 to 3:30 p.m. Let Mark Twain be your guide through a ghostly (but family-friendly) tour of LMU’s William H. Hannon Library. LMU theater students perform famous and creepy tales inspired by Mark Twain’s travel writing and the myths and folklore of the old (and new) West.

Tours are around 35 minutes long with sign-ups beginning 30 minutes prior to the first performance. William H. Hannon Library, 1 LMU Dr., Westchester. Free. lmu.edu.

Meet Me at Reed, 3 to 5 p.m. Enjoy an afternoon at the park while being serenaded by the Santa Monica High School Choir singing a wide range of popular music in a mixture of solos, duets and other ensemble arrangements. Christine Emerson Reed Park, 1133 7th St., Santa Monica. Free. santamonica.gov

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a glass of wine as you sculpt a spooky sculpture in the spirit of Halloween. A ticket includes clay supplies and tools, plus five pours curated by downtown L.A. wine bar Pour Haus. Taste of Sculpting, 4223 Glencoe Ave., Del Rey. $40. tasteofsculpting.com Hushfest Silent Disco: Prince vs.

Bowie, 7 p.m. to midnight. Dance to music by David Bowie and Prince on Santa Monica Pier as a DJ streams their music straight to your headphones. VIP tickets include access to an open bar. $10+. hushconcerts.com Don’t Tell Santa Monica, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Shrouded in mystery, Don’t Tell Comedy hosts another secret show at a location somewhere in Santa Monica.

Location revealed via email at noon on the day of the show. $20. donttellcomedy.com SOA Spooky Flutes Concert, 7 to 9 p.m. Flute ensemble The Song of the Angels puts on an Addams Familythemed show. Moss Theater, 3131 Olympic Blvd., Santa Monica. $10 to $20. soafluteorchestra.com Katalyst Jazz, 8 p.m. Inglewoodbased future funk, soul and jazz band Katalyst Collective brings their beats to the Del Monte, followed by DJ Aaron Parr spinning soul, funk, hip-hop, hits, electronic and dance music. Townhouse & Del Monte Speakeasy, 52 Windward Ave., Venice.

No cover. (310) 392-4040; townhousevenice.com Lula Wiles, 8 p.m. The acclaimed folk trio — fiddler/guitarist/banjoist Isa Burke, guitarist Eleanor Buckland, and upright bassist Masi Obomsawin — mix traditional tunes with contemporary commentary at McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. $20. (310) 828-4497; mccabes.com

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Sunday, Oct. 20 No Carve Pumpkin Decorating at Santa Monica Farmers’ Market, 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Start your day at the market with pumpkin decorating and face painting. Pumpkins and decorations provided. All you need to bring is your creativity! Santa Monica Farmers’ Market, 2640 Main St., Santa Monica.

Free. facebook.com/smfms Gold Coast Tour, 11 a.m. to noon.

Explore Palisades Beach Road, also known as the “Gold Coast,” which was once called home by Cary Grant and Greta Garbo. See around 30 cottages designed by some of California’s most notable architects. Annenberg Community Beach House, 415 Pacific Coast Hwy., Santa Monica. $28. atlasobscura.com Del Rey Day, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Celebrate Del Rey with free food and drinks, free kids’ activities and live entertainment by the Del Rey Jazz Band. Del Rey fourth- and fifth-graders compete in the neighborhood’s spelling bee starting at 11 a.m., followed by an awards ceremony at noon. Glen Alla Park, 4602 Alla Road, Del Rey. Free. delreync.org Grow L.A. Victory Garden Workshop, 1 to 4 p.m. Learn how to create your own backyard organic garden.

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Wear a costume for a chance to win a free pour and a Halloween themed painting class. Hotel MdR, 13480 Maxella Ave., Marina del Rey. $45. paintingandvino.com

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But he speaks passionately about what he has witnessed — and what he wants other people to see — at the border. His photographs, he hopes, will encourage people to reflect on “where we’ve been, where we are, and where we want to go,” he says.

“It’s just tragic to think about how we are demonizing people.

All I can hope for is that soon we can look back in horror at how we allowed it to get to this stage of cruelty. By no means are we out of the woods. … Who do we want to become?”

Before the CBP job, before “El Sueño Americano,” Kiefer had a relatively simple goal. He moved to Arizona to “photograph and document the American landscape, the buildings, the infrastructure, the cultural markers — the things that make America America. That’s what I set out to do.

“In a certain sense, that’s what I’m doing with ‘El Sueño Americano.’ Just not in a way that I could have ever imagined.”

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