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The Day Everything Changed, Again
Local Jews and
Officials Respond to
the Paris Attacks
Sherriff’s Dept.
Considers Similar
Civilian Panel
By Ameera Butt,
Ledger Contributing Writer
By Bridgette Webb
Ledger Contributing Writer
SILVER LAKE—In the wake
of a string of high profile cases
involving officers using deadly
force—including the Los Angeles cases of Omar Abrego
Police Commissioner Steve Soboroff
and Ezell Ford—the Silver
Lake Neighborhood Council (SLNC) will join with the
see LAPD page 7
A boy and his father, pushing a baby carriage, stop for a moment outside Congregation Bais Yehda on North
La Brea Avenue before services on a recent Saturday. The January terrorist attacks in Paris have renewed
fear and feelings of persecution forJ ews in Los Angeles are throughout the world. Photo: Tanika Roy.
Los Feliz’s Expensive Gateway
Now a Homeless “Encampment”
Experts Disagree on Reasons Behind More Recent
Homeless in the Area
By Bruce Haring, Ledger Contributing Writer
LOS FELIZ—Concern over the
area’s homeless population has
reached a tipping point and
is being addressed in several
ways in February.
Using a combination of
outreach and removal of entrenched homeless encampments, government and social
services agencies hope to abate
several homeless areas that
are highly visible, including
encampments at the so-called
Vermont Triangle that popped
up around the December
holidays and another near the
Vons supermarket at Virgil
Avenue and Sunset Boulevard.
Los Angeles officials pre-
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restrooms? page 3
February 2015
viously removed a homeless
encampment in December
that had established at Barnsdall Art Park and at a nearby
shopping center.
Additionally, an outreach
program that will count and
identify the chronically homeless in East Hollywood and
Los Feliz gets underway today,
offering new ways to reach
area homeless and potentially
find them permanent housing.
The biggest focus of upcoming activity will be addressing the festering situation at the Vermont Triangle,
see TRIANGLE page 19
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Boulevard, page 11
In the wake of the January
terrorist attacks on the satirical
magazine Charlie Hebdo and
a Jewish market in France, the
Chabad of Los Feliz has not
increased security at its Hillhurst Avenue location and according to Rabbi Leibel Korf,
the Los Angeles Police Dept.
has not increased its patrols
near the location either.
“We feel as safe as can
be,” Korf said. “We don’t go
into the minds of evil people… we can’t think or imagine their minds. Obviously,
we are praying for the best
protection.”
For now, he said the
synagogue is in touch with
see REACTION page 14
Violent Crime Up 88% in Los Feliz
Other locals areas also saw increases, but not as high
By Ameera Butt, Ledger Contributing Writer
Assaults with deadly weapons in Los Feliz increased 88%
in 2014 compared to 2013, according to Los Angeles Police
Dept. statistics released in January. Echo Park, similarly, saw
a dramatic increase of 80%.
“These numbers… are of
concern,” said Los Angeles
City Councilmember Tom LaBonge. Last year, there were 15
reported assaults with deadly
weapons in Los Feliz according to police officials, compared to eight in 2013.
Although the LAPD’s
Capt. Jeff Bert did not speak
specifically to the nearly doubling of violent crime, he said
anytime there is any increase
at all, it worries him.
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Los Feliz, according to
Bert, was not alone.
All areas of Los Angeles,
he said, saw an increase in
violent crime last year and specially, “nearly every single one”
of the 13 neighborhoods he
oversees, including Silver Lake
and East Hollywood.
In Los Feliz, Bert said
heavy drinking may be exacerbating what would have
been minor arguments into
assaults. The LAPD considers a closed fist that strikes
another an assault weapon.
Other examples of deadly
weapons include a gun, a
knife or even a baseball bat.
Bert also pointed to Los
Feliz’s growing homeless pop-
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ulation as a factor.
Today, it is rare to be on
Hillhurst or Vermont avenues without seeing a handful of homeless people, he
said. What’s being called an
“encampment” by some recently sprung up between the
December holidays at what’s
called the “Vermont Triangle”—the gateway to Los Feliz
where Vermont and Prospect
avenues meet Hollywood Boulevard. Some homeless experts
say the increased homeless is
due to sweeps in both downtown Los Angeles and Hollywood that have simply pushed
the population locally.
Echo Park’s increase from
see CRIME page 13
Editorial: A neighborhood council
member makes a case for who
should run the Greek, page 33
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New Office, New Phone Number, New Year
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because after the Ledger
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like for hours, in AT&T’s cus-
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note our new address: 1933
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[street level]
Can One Loo Do?
Compiled by Ameera Butt, Ledger Contributing Writer
The city of West Hollywood joined three other U.S.
cities Jan. 15th adopting a new
law for the creation of genderneutral restrooms. Businesses
and public areas have 30 days
to comply.
Washington, D.C. has had
a similar law since 2006 as does
Philadelphia (2013) and Austin, TX (2014). Gender-neutral
bathrooms have been heralded
as a step forward for the transgender rights movement; for
the disabled with caretakers of a
different gender and for females
waiting in long lines to use the
restroom while the men’s room
is empty. Here’s what some locals think of the idea of gender
neutral restrooms:
I’m especially
sensitive to
[this] because I
have a son who
is gender nonconforming.
He is almost six years old.”
–Carter, 42, Los Angeles, who
declined to give his last name,
at Barnsdall Art Park
It depends on
the facility…
some people
may not be
comfortable
with it. I don’t
think you can enforce it
everywhere.
That’s probably
advantageous
for everybody
because there
have been
instances where
the men’s restroom line is
long and the women’s restroom is empty.
–Jeff Thrope, 31, on Sunset
Boulevard in Echo Park
I wouldn’t have
any problem
using the
bathroom with
a woman. And
if that’s something that trans people feel
more comfortable with, then
that’s good.
–Richard Hammer, 27, on
Vermont Avenue in Los Feliz
I tend to feel
the population
in Los Angeles is moving
towards [more]
trans especially
in Silver Lake so I feel that is
a solution. I wouldn’t be opposed to it.
–Mario Alatorre, 55, in
Atwater Village
–Anny Tau, 26, in Los Feliz
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New BID Members Elected
Four Newcomers Join the Business Organization
By Bruce Haring, Ledger Contributing Writer
LOS FELIZ—Four business
owners have been newly elected to the Los Feliz Business
Improvement District (LFVBID) joining three incumbents who won reelection in
the organization’s end of year
election.
The newcomers to the
LFVBID governing board are
Marci Siegal of Co-Op 28,
Vermont Avenue; Felica Howe
of Primrose Salon, Hollywood
Boulevard; Liza Shtromberg,
of Liza Shtromberg Jewelry,
Hillhurst Avenue and Coby
Goodman of Bling Circus,
Hillhurst Avenue. Claudio
Hipolito, Dustin Lancaster
and John Abreu were each reelected.
Of 295 ballots mailed
Dec. 19th to Los Feliz business owners, 28 were returned
by the Jan. 5th deadline for a
9% return rate.
The elected boardmembers, along with their respective vote counts were: Lancaster
(Covell Bar and Hotel Covell)
and Hipolito (Coldwell Banker) each with 23 votes; Siegal
and Goodman each with 15
votes; Howe, Abreu (Berkshire
Hathaway Home Services) and
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Shtromberg each with 14 votes.
Two candidates, Liana Cryns
(Coldwell Banker) and Andrew
Marlin (Heretic Salon), withdrew their candidacy after ballots were mailed.
Running but not elected
were: Allison Cohen, Los Feliz
Ledger, 13 votes; Ben Proudfoot,
Breakaway Studios, 12 votes;
Warner Ebbink, Little Dom’s,
10 votes; and Nicholas Monteer,
Coldwell Banker, 8 votes.
The newly elected will join
current boardmembers Rafik
Ghazarian of Keller Williams,
Jessica Peart with Collective
Management, Chris Diamond
of Rockwell and Chris Serrano
of Berkeshire Hathway Home
Services.
At its Jan. 13th meeting,
the newly seated board named
the following officers:
Serrano,
Lancaster,
Peart, Diamond, Hipolito
and Ghazarian were all were
retained as president, vice
president, treasurer, secretary, beautification chair and
head of marketing and public
relations, respectively. New
boardmember Shtromberg
was named head of the communications committee.
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“David Just Defeated Goliath” Says Local Official as
Committee Rejects Live Nation for Greek
Management Contract Will Now Be Decided by City Council
By Bridgette Webb and Allison B. Cohen
LOS ANGELES–The issue
of who will manage the storied
Greek Theater took another
turn Jan. 26th as a subcommittee of the Los Angeles City
Council voted 4-1 to reject the
city’s Dept. of Recreation and
Parks Board of Commissioners’ recommendation to enter into contract negotiations
with Live Nation over incumbent Nederlander.
“I am overjoyed,” said
Nederlander’s General Manager Rena Wasserman. “So
many people worked so hard
to get where we are today. I am
so appreciative.”
The issue of the Greek’s
future will now go before the
full 15-member city council
for a vote. A date for such was
not announced.
“I remain confident we
will be the manager of the
Greek,” said Live Nation’s
chief operating officer Joe Berchtold. “Today’s vote was not
based on facts. It was based on
emotion.”
An estimated 600 people attended the most recent
three-hour hearing on the is-
February 2015
sue at City Hall, but only 20
were given the opportunity to
speak before the city’s Arts,
Parks, Health, Aging and River Committee.
Dressed—as has been
the case throughout all public
hearings on the issue in either
red (for Live Nation) or green
(for Nederlander) t-shirts—
both sides again gave impassioned views on why one promoter should have the coveted
contract over the other.
“This seems like David
just defeated Goliath,” said
Chris Laib, president of the
Los Feliz Improvement Association.
The department of Recreation and Park’s commissioners voted 3-0, Oct. 23rd for
Live Nation for the contract
after a Georgia-based consulting firm it had hired scored
Live Nation’s proposal higher
than Nederlander. Nederlander, who partnered with the Anshultz Entertaiment Group (AEG) to
bolster its bid, has repeatedly
claimed that recommendation
by Strategic Advisory Group
was rife with errors “that infected the entire process.”
Many local neighborhood
organizations additionally expressed concerned about quality of life issues at the Greek
and its surrounding residential
neighborhood with Live Nation at the helm, such as traffic, noise and teenage curfews.
“Long term service to the
community had been honored,” said Los Feliz Neighborhood Council President
Linda Demmers. “People were
heard.”
Live Nation’s bid guaranteed the city $60 million in
revenue over 20 years to Nederlander’s $77.5 million.
However, Live Nation had
indicated it would make $40
million in capital improvements compared to Nederlander’s $18.8 million. The
capital improvement quotient
of the bids was crucial in the
consulting firm’s overall scoring and were weighted 40% of
the total score.
Nederlander’s
current
contract with the city for the
Greek expires in October
2015. It has operated the venue since 1975.
The organization, headed
by Wasserman, undertook a
fierce campaign through social media to rally support it
be retained, including gathering over 30,000 signatures in
support.
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LFNC Asks DWP To Shut Off
Mulholland Fountain
By Bruce Haring, Ledger Contributing Writer
LOS FELIZ—The Los Feliz Neighborhood Council
(LFNC) has weighed in on the
debate over whether the Mulholland Memorial Fountain
should continue to spray.
A motion passed at the
council’s January meeting
calling for the landmark fountain to be turned off in support of Gov. Jerry Brown’s call
to reduce water use by 20% in
the face of sustained draught
and mandatory restrictions on
residences and businesses.
Brown issued an executive
order to turn off all city fountains that don’t use recycled
water last summer.
The Mullholland Fountain is named for William
Mulholland, who built the
city’s water infrastructure as
head of a predecessor organization to the current Los Angeles
Dept. of Water and Power.
“The DWP should hold
itself to the same standards the
rest of the state is subject to,
setting an example to be modeled after in the city,” the LFNC’s motion, addressed to the
LADWP, read. “The Mulholland Fountain is a gem in our
community and turning it off
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will send a clear message that
our water resoucres are in dire
need of the act to conserve.”
The fountain holds an
estimated 50,000 gallons of
water, using recirculated water
that is replaced upon evaporation.
Michelle Figueroa, a
spokesperson for the LADWP,
said the organization has “not
yet officially received” the motion. Meanwhile, she said, the
LADWP has been implementing various measures to reduce
the fountain’s water use “in
keeping with our water conservation efforts while also
preserving the neighborhood
value of this historic landmark,” Figueroa said.
According to Figueroa, the
fountain is turned off during intermittent hours of the day and
overnight. The LADWP, she
said, has also installed equipment at the fountain to reduce
the amount of spray it emits.
The fountain’s time that it
is on, she said, has also been
reduced. The fountain now
runs from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and
4 p.m. to 10 p.m. on weekdays and 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. on
weekends.
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LFNC Looking for a KO at City Hall Candidate Caucus
LOS FELIZ—The Los Feliz Neighborhood Council
(LFNC) will host a Los Angeles City Council District 4
“Candidate Caucus” Feb. 15th
at 6 p.m. at John Marshall
High School.
All voters, residents and
stakeholders are encouraged
to arrive early. Doors of the
school’s auditorium will open
at 5 p.m.
The event will feature
three rounds of questions for
the candidates and will be
moderated by award-winning political journalist John
Schwada.
“John Schwada’s insight
into City Hall’s inner workings is unparalleled,” said Linda
Demmers, LFNC President.
According to Demmers,
Schwada will write the questions for the caucus based on
notes received from the community and the LFNC.
“He’s not one to mince
words or pull punches,” she
said. “There are lots of Los
Feliz undecided voters and I
think whoever shines will earn
them.”
Fourteen candidates are
running to replace Tom LaBonge who will be termed out
of office after serving nearly 14
years.
Two candidates, Teddy
Davis and Tomas O’Grady,
live in Los Feliz. LaBonge’s
former Chief of Staff, Carolyn
Ramsay, is also running.
In the first round—“Wild
Card”—candidates will answer randomly drawn questions formulated from the
neighborhood council’s 12year “fruitful and frustrating” history working with LaBonge’s office and other city
departments.
Round two, called “One
Big Fix,” will reverse the
speaking order and ask candidates how they would take on
a pressing citywide issue.
In round three, called
“IMHO,” candidates can
speak to any issue and make
their best case for how they
would, if elected, serve the
neighborhood, the council
district and the city.
“This is not your typical
candidate forum,” said Mark
F. Mauceri, LFNC’s VP of
Administration. “It’s designed
to discourage canned answers
and see how well these folks
think on their feet.”
The Los Feliz Ledger will
also be conducting a poll immediately following the debate
and will announce a clear winner based on attendee responses, according to publisher Allison B. Cohen.
LFNC
boardmember,
Kate Brandt, said the council
hopes, indeed, a clear victor
rises from the debate breaking
out of the crowded field.
“This is a great way for
Los Feliz to decide who will
go the distance for us at City
Hall,” she said.
Council District 4 includes all or parts of Los Feliz,
Silver Lake, Hancock Park,
Larchmont Village, Hollywood, Miracle Mile, Wind-
sor Square, Windsor Village,
Wilshire Park, Sycamore
Square, Fremont Place, Studio
City and Sherman Oaks.
The primary election is
March 3rd.
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Washington and Sacramento won’t fix trafficjammed streets, provide parking, support local
businesses or help public schools thrive. They
don’t repair potholes, street lights or broken water
mains. Nor will they improve emergency response
times, ensure responsible development or help make our
neighborhood cleaner, greener, and more walkable and
bike-friendly. They don’t decide where to build playgrounds,
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South Central Neighborhood
Council in a joint resolution
aiming to hold Los Angeles
Police Dept. personnel more
accountable for officer misconduct.
Both Abrego, 37, and
Ford, 25—whose family described him as mentally impaired—lived and were killed
in South Los Angeles last
summer within one week of
each other by Los Angeles
Police Dept. officers from the
Newton Division.
The resolution calls for
the establishment of an all
elected civilian board, with
full authority over the department at all levels. The
panel would replace the Los
Angeles Police Commission, a five-member board
appointed by the mayor and
confirmed by the Los Angeles City Council.
“This will be a step in the
right direction,” said James Bigelow, co-chair of the SLNC’s
Public Safety Committee during a meeting in January. “If
the police aren’t doing anything wrong than they have
nothing to worry about.”
February 2015
This is the second measure
of this type in recent months.
Last December, the Los
Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a plan to
create a civilian oversight panel for the Los Angeles County
Sheriff’s Department.
“Right now we are in the
process of working out how
the new board will function,”
said sheriff spokesperson Nicole Nishida. According to
Nishida, a timetable has not
been set for when such a panel
might be created.
The resolution by the
SLNC was approved by a 170-1 vote. It calls for city councilmembers Tom LaBonge
and Mitch O’Farrell, both
whom represent the area, to
write a motion for city council
approval to amend the city’s
charter for the change to be
added on an upcoming city
ballot.
“I personally do feel that
there is a lot of momentum for
resolutions like this,” said Teresa Sitz of the SLNC. “This
[momentum] has a lot to do
with us working with other
neighborhood councils and
coming together.”
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A message from James O’Sullivan, MMRA President
Who’s on First, Who’s on Second, I Don’t Know is on Third...
Don’t look now but we are less than two months away from electing a new
Councilmember for Council District 4. Do you have any idea who you will vote
for? How many of you reading this right now can name more than a couple
of the 14 certified candidates? To be honest with you, having followed this
stuff closely, even I am challenged to name more than a handful. That should
change soon as yard signs start popping up and our mailboxes are stuffed with
campaign flyers.
Conventional wisdom has it that none of these candidates for CD 4 will win a
majority of votes in the March 3rd primary – resetting the clock for a May 19th
runoff between the top two contenders, but I’m not sure about that. Several
candidates have already raised some serious money and more will be collected
before the primary ends. City matching funds will add $50,000 to $100,000
to each candidate that qualifies, but someone could decide to self-finance –
which would blow the lid off and throw conventional wisdom out the window.
Trying to find the best candidate by reading their comments and pledges in
newspapers (the few statements that can be found) hasn’t been very helpful
so far. Even a search for their positions on their websites (which many don’t
have yet) is an exercise in frustration. Candidates know that the average person wants their streets and sidewalks fixed, their trees trimmed, and adequate
police and fire protection, so they promise to deliver those things. The obvious,
boilerplate promises; there’s nothing new here.
The problem is that most of their promises – boilerplate or otherwise – are
beyond their ability to deliver. Most of the things being promised – protecting
neighborhoods; alleviating traffic congestion; solving pension and healthcare
issues; bringing film and TV production back to L.A.; adding more bike lanes;
and a whole laundry list of other items – require the approval of 14 other council members to get done.
Once elected, our new councilmember will be introduced to the odd and
uniquely L.A. political process that
delivers unanimous council votes almost 100% of the time. Individuality
is not encouraged on the City Council. It’s a go-along-to-get-along sort
of place. But each Councilmember
does wield considerable control over
their district and related funds. This
is where real issues arise and hard
questions need to be asked.
Recently, a hubbub arose when the LA
Times reported that Councilman Tom
LaBonge was sponsoring an 80th
birthday party for Elvis Presley at the
Avalon Theater in Hollywood. The (as yet) unsubstantiated report quickly went
viral about funding attached to this sponsorship, prompting many to wonder
if those funds couldn’t be put to better use – like repairing a root-damaged
sidewalk?
While campaign contributions are not a big issue for me, I understand why
many voters are concerned. For years we have watched money from developers flood political races while noticing that the doors to City Hall are held wide
open to every real estate project that crosses the threshold. Conversely, many
residents who feel that their neighborhoods are under siege find the welcome
mat is not rolled out for them.
It would help ease the perception of impropriety between political contributions and project approvals if the playing field were leveled. One key means to
achieve this would be for each candidate to pledge complete transparency. If
elected they would:
•
•
And speaking of knowledge as power:
•
My interest in this issue led me to do a search of funds controlled by CD 4.
That search yielded results that were as clear as mud.
A question I would like each CD 4 candidate to answer is this: Will you frequently post online simple-to-read reports detailing where the money under
your control comes from, where it is goes, and who it benefits?
Many hundreds-of-thousands of dollars are transferred into – and out of –
these funds to pay for a variety of things and I can’t figure out what the hell is
going on. Many of the expenditures may well be for things that really benefit
the community, but it would be nice to know that with some certainty.
The well-worn issue of accepting campaign contributions from real estate
developers recently took a turn toward the ludicrous with the candidates parsing which are the good developers (the small ones) and which are the bad
developers (the large ones) – as if virtue could be measured by square footage.
Immediately disclose whenever their office is approached about a development project in CD 4, whether by the developer or any person or group
representing the developer. This information should be posted on the council website and the Neighborhood Councils and homeowners/residential
groups should be promptly notified about the project, from its conception.
Disclose any follow up meetings with the Councilmember or staff regarding the project. All too often projects gallop out of the starting gate without the community’s knowledge.
Advocacy groups are constantly
meeting with the Planning Department and LADOT on issues – from
bike lanes to rewriting the zoning
code – and the public is left out
in the cold. Any changes contemplated in CD 4 should be clearly and
concisely posted on the Council
website. There should be full disclosure in real time so that everyone is informed.
Would a CD 4 candidate who agreed to do all of the above get my vote? Yes,
if they also agreed to:
•
•
Faithfully follow the policies for decision makers as outlined in each Community Plan in CD 4, as well as in the Framework Element.
Require the City to officially document and demonstrate that the infrastructure in the area of the contemplated project is not threatened in relation to user needs. This would include particularly critical services, such
as water and sewerage, as well as public schools, police and fire services,
and transportation infrastructure.
My point is, I don’t want promises, I want answers – and so should you.
First published in MMRA newsletter, Miraclemilela.com
Los Feliz Ledger
[senior moments]
City Council Elections: If I Had the
Candidates’ Ears
By Stephanie Vendig, Ledger Columnist
Soon,
Los
Angeles voters will be
casting ballots for a
total of 57
ca ndidates
Los Angeles city council members, the Los Angeles Unified
School District Board of Education and two Community
College Board.
The largest candidate pool
for the March 3rd ballot is for
Los Angeles City Council District 4. Fourteen candidates
are vying to replace Councilmember Tom LaBonge who
has served since 2001. Due to
term limits, LaBonge is unable
to run again.
Because there is no incumbent, the seat is competitive, and therefore, this is an
opportunity for candidates to
engage more voters as they try
to differentiate themselves.
CD4 comprises a large
area with a variety of neighborhoods housing more than
280,000 people. The district—which was enlarged
and redrawn during the
city’s recent redistricting
process—will provide many
challenges for the winning
candidate.
While there are many
candidate forums, debates
and caucuses planned for
voters to get their own read
on the candidates, as someone who has been around
now for a while, my questions of the candidates might
be different than most.
I’d like to hear candidate responses on their disaster response plans and if
they take into consideration
those who are most vulnerable, such as older persons?
Or, how would each candidate, if elected, facilitate the
construction of affordable
housing and services for the
older population needing assistance and shelter?
Many older folks no longer drive and need to become
more pedestrian and public
transit friendly. I wonder how
each candidate will work toward creating a more livable
and walkable city? Can there
be an expansion of DASH and
City Ride? Can every development project include pedestrian ease of access? Will
the revitalization of the Los
Angeles River include lanes
or walkways for pedestrians
without having to share them
with bicycles that, for seniors
and children, can be just as
threatening as speeding cars?
Will sidewalk maintenance be
a priority for the new councilmember so an aging person
does not have to worry about
tripping over buckling sidewalks?
Finally, the older population is growing fast all across
America and Los Angeles is no
different. The idea of “aging in
place” means those getting up
in years can stay in their neighborhoods throughout their lives
if they wish. But to do so, there
must be resources easily available. How would the candidates
facilitate this?
I hope to get some answers
to these questions at any number of candidate related events
in the district this month.
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By Kathy A. McDonald, Ledger Columnist
With Valentine’s Day just
around the corner, we thought
it would be fun to take a look
an entrepreneur couples in the
neighborhood. And we found,
Sunset Boulevard, lately, seems
to be ground zero for such romantically paired proprietors.
On the eastern end of
Sunset Boulevard in the heart
of Echo Park, Brooke Fruchtman and Jaime Turrey opened
the 50-seat American bistro
Ostrich Farm in December.
The couple, who are parents of two children ages 5
and 1, have lived in the area
for more than 12 years and
wanted to create a true neighborhood restaurant, one that
locals could walk to easily and
where they would get to know
their guests.
“We love the neighborhood so much, there’s a real
sense of community here,”
said Fruchtman.
The couple said they
looked for several years before
finding the vacant space on
Sunset at Laveta Terrace.
Turrey earned his culinary chops in San Francisco at
the Hayes Street Grill and formerly operated the Monsieur
Egg food cart in downtown
Los Angeles. His focused and
seasonally changing menu is
inspired by classic American
cuisine and many items are
grilled over a wood fire.
Local craft beers are served
as well as boutique wines. In
addition to Tuesday-Sunday
dinner service, Ostrich Farm
will be open late on Friday and
Saturday nights until 2 a.m.
serving a condensed menu and
Turrey’s signature croque monsieur. Weekend brunch will be
added in early March.
Fruchtman, who runs
the front of the house, said a
kitchen garden will soon be
added to the restaurant’s backyard space.
The restaurant’s name is a
nod to local history. The Ostrich Farm Railway ran down
Sunset Blvd. in the late 1880s
en route to an ostrich farm then
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Hollyhock House Is Partying All Night To Show Off New Facelift
By Ameera Butt, Ledger Contributing Writer
facelift, which was funded by
the city of Los Angeles and
state and federal grants, returned all the details of the
house’s interior that had been
removed, plastered or painted
over, Herr said.
Some of the return of that
once-lost detail will be wood
moldings, wall textures and
colors that will replicate what
it looked like in 1921, he said.
“For the first time since
the 1940s [the public] will be
able to walk into this house
and see it as it appeared in
1921 when Aline Barnsdall
walked into the house for the
first time,” Herr said proudly.
There will be a fee to visit
the 6,000 square foot house,
but for 24 hours starting Feb.
13th, entry will be free to the
public.
“I think what [visitors] are
going to see when they walk in,”
said Herr, “is this really romantically beautiful space that had,
over the years, become a very
ordinary space.”
Other changes included
removing sliding glass doors
and replacing them with 14
accordion style folding doors.
Additionally, proportions of the
house have been re-adjusted to
their original size and windows
were enlarged as well.
According to Virginia Ernst Kazor, Hollyhock
House’s curator from 1978
until 2000, Wright found
similarity between a musical
composition term and the architecture he created for the
house. He called it “California
Romanza.”
“[California Romanza]”
is unique to California and
speaks to the character of
Angelenos,” councilmember
O’Farrell said. “It is part of
Los Angeles in its very character.”
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EAST HOLLYWOOD—For the
first time in two years, Frank
Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock
House will be opened again to
the public in February after an
extensive $4.35 million renovation.
“Hollyhock House is not
just one of the jewels in the
city of Los Angeles, it arguably is the crown jewel,” right
up there with the Griffith
Observatory, said Los Angeles City Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell, whose
council district 13 includes
the areas around Barnsdall
Art Park where the house is
located, perched high atop
Olive Hill.
Heiress, Aline Barnsdall,
who commissioned Wright to
design the house in 1919, lived
an—shall we say—enriched
life during her time there. The
FBI tracked her for more than
two decades starting in 1915
because of her acquaintance
with various extremists and
anarchists across the country.
She also became pregnant, out
of wedlock in 1916, by a small
time actor.
She eventually donated
the property, which sits on 12
acres, in 1927 to the city of
Los Angeles for a memorial
park in honor of her father, oil
baron Theodore Barnsdall.
Soon thereafter, the
California Art Club used the
house, but it wasn’t kept up
and fell into disrepair.
“By the 1940s it was unusable,” said Jeffrey Herr, curator for Hollyhock House.
Renovations followed in
the mid 1940s managed by
Wright’s son, Lloyd Wright.
The house then saw another
period of decline and was restored again in the 1970s.
For this most recent restoration,
water—meaning
repairing leaks and trying to
prevent more—has been the
number one problem to fix,
according to Herr.
Additionally, this current
February 2015
Los Feliz Ledger
Daytime Burglary Suspect Remains at Large
Bridgette Webb, Ledger Contributing Writer
LOS FELIZ—Police are investigating a string of four recent
burglaries apparently committed by one suspect Jan. 15th
between Nottingham and
Riverside drives north of Los
Feliz Boulevard. No arrests
have been made, according to
officials.
The incidences took place
between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m.
According to Det. Mike
Bland, of the Los Angeles Po-
lice Department’s Northeast
burglary and theft unit, the
suspect tried various ways to
enter the homes, including
smashing windows.
“Honestly, I haven’t seen a
flare up like this in Los Feliz
for a while,” said Bland. “We
have noticed this spike and
have added additional resources,” in the area.
When crimes are committed like this in the daytime,
CRIME from page 1
saw a 19% increase in assaults with deadly weapons
while assault figures in Atwater Village were flat compared to 2013.
Regarding minor crimes,
Atwater Village, Los Feliz and
Silver Lake all saw increases in
2014 for car burglaries, 21%,
36% and 19% respectively, according to the statistics.
Many of those car burglaries were thefts of expensive
items left in plain view, Bert
said, like iPads and iPhones.
13 assaults with deadly weapons in 2013 compared to 27
last year, according to Bert, is
mostly gang-on-gang crime.
Those
numbers
are
“alarming,” said Ann-Marie
Holman, a councilmember
with the Greater Echo Park
Elysian Neighborhood Council. That neighborhood council plans to discuss the recently
released statistics at its next
meeting Feb. 3rd.
Silver Lake, meanwhile,
Need
when many are away from
their homes, often, police said,
coming and going in a neighborhood, officials said.
According to Bland,
some burglars try to blend in
a neighborhood by renting or
homeowners daily patterns
of coming and going so they
know when the home will be
empty to burglarize.
He suggests area residents
“Honestly, I haven’t seen a flare up like this in Los Feliz for a while,”
said the LAPD’s Mike Bland. “We have noticed this spike and have
added additional resources,” in the area.
witnesses are few. Strangers in
the area can be confused with
gardeners and other workers
stealing nice cars. That way,
he said, they are more likely
to go unnoticed as they watch
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Neighborhood Councils Write a 2015 To Do List
By Ameera Butt, Ledger Contributing Writer
ATWATER VILLAGE—So
far this year, local officials are
checking their priorities and
checking them twice.
Neighborhood
council
boards are gearing up with a
list of goals, priorities and annual events for the year.
For the Atwater Village Neighborhood Council
[AVNC], a goal is to revamp
their website and to conduct
a neighborhood-wide survey, to gauge the pulse of
the community’s priorities in
2015.
Additionally, the board
hopes to develop standards for
various hot topic issues, like
the division of large lots into
smaller ones for development
and the number of liquor licenses approved for restaurants, for example, according
to Torin Dunnavant, co-chair
of the board.
“If we were to finish 2015
and have those in hand, we
would feel better at what we
have accomplished as a board,”
he said.
Another goal of the board
is to keep better informed on
issues such as the current revisioning of the Los Angeles
River and to imrpove com-
REACTION from page 1
ket in eastern Paris’s Porte de
Vincennes neighborhood, hit
much closer to home.
Many Jewish American
tourists, she said, visit that
neighborhood to buy kosher
souvenirs to bring home.
Since the 9/11 attacks in
New York and Washington,
D.C., some local synagogues
have increased security during
Jewish holidays like Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah.
9/11 was a catalyst for
the LAPD’s creation of lists
of local sites which need to
be continually monitored and
patrolled, according to Los
Angeles Police Department
spokesperson Jack Richter.
Those locations, he said, range
from city facilities to synagogues and mosques.
According to Richter, after the attacks in
France, local synagogues
did not ask for extra security patrols, but the police
deployed them anyway, at
least in some areas, and will
continue to do so.
“Sometimes a synagogue
or mosque will call and ask for
extra, visual patrol,” Richter
said. “We do patrols anyway.
We’ve never let up in all of the
years since 9/11.”
According to Mayor Eric
Garcetti’s office, city officials
reached out to Jewish groups
and leaders after the attack to
discuss concerns.
That’s typical after any
attack or significant event, a
spokesperson for the mayor
said.
While many Jews in the
nearby neighborhood of Hancock Park said they feel safer,
some said the United States
government is not doing
enough to thwart what seems
to be one terrorist attack after
another.
“[The U.S. government]
has too much political correctness,” said Hancock Park
resident, Benny, as he was
walking along McCadden
Avenue after attending recent
Saturday services. Benny, who
was wearing a dark suit and a
yarmulke, declined to give his
last name.
Officials should be “doing
the right thing,” he said, fighting terrorism on all fronts and
following all leads, whether
threats come from those that
identify Muslim, Jewish or
Christian.
“It’s a national security issue,” he said. “It’s the government’s job.”
officials from Chabad headquarters in New York and
California for direction on
increasing vigilence.
The synagogue already
has bulletproof windows as
well as about 15 security cameras, according to Korf. Those
measures were put in place by
the United States Departmnet
of Homeland Security years
ago, he said.
The synagogue has had
incidents of hate crimes in the
past, but not recently, Korf
said.
At temples in other parts
of Los Angeles, reactions to
the Jan. 7th attacks, that
killed 12 magazine employees, a Parisian police officer
and the terrorists—Said and
Cherif Kouachi—were that
of devastation, fear and a
return to feelings of persecution long after the Holocaust.
At a long planned lecture
at Wilshire Boulevard Temple,
Deborah E. Lipstadt, a professor from Emory College in Atlanta, GA, said she reworked
her prepared speech to incorporate commentary on the attacks.
Addressing a crowd of
more than 60 that had gathered for a recent lecture on
the rise of anti-Semitism
in Europe, Lipstadt—who
teaches Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies—successfully regrouped
and spoke instead of the recent terrorism, the newest reminder of the Jewish experience of anti-Semitism in the
21st century.
“[Amedy
Coulibaly’s]
purpose was to kill Jews. Suddenly everything I had written
[for the lecture] was obsolete
and irrelevant and at the same
time even more relevant,” than
ever she said.
For Lipstadt, everything
has now changed, again.
She described the attack
on Charlie Hebdo as “horrifying to anybody who values
freedom of speech and a liberal, democratic society.” But
she said what occurred two
days later at the kosher marPage 14 COMMUNITY NEWS
munication with Los Angeles
City Councilmember Mitch
O’Farrell’s office.
According to Dunnavant, the council is especially
concerned with the Hyperion
Bridge retrofit project’s various designs that have recently
created division in the community.
“There’s not a clear example of [O’Farrell] not
listening, but he has said
nothing about the Hyperion
Bridge [project],” said Dunnavant. “It’d be nice to have a
direct conversation with him
about that.”
In Echo Park, the
Greater Echo Park Elysian
Neighborhood Council (GEPENC) hopes to host a series
of town hall meetings with
local businesses, developers, the Los Angeles Police
Department and other city
agencies to help ease tensions
between homeowners and
the area’s burgeoning nightlife, according to Ann-Marie
Holman, a GEPENC boardmember.
“I think it’s great we have
more businesses that are wanting to open. I think we need
to find a better way to make
the Echo Park neighborhood
work with local [night] life,”
she said.
For boardmember Tad
Yenawine even though the
council is only an advisory
board to City Hall, he said he
wants the GEPENC to continue focusing on local homelessness issues by promoting
what’s called “a housing first
model,” which means making affordable housing for
the homeless a priority, rather
than shelters or reduced or
subsidized rent.
“The idea [of ‘housing
first’ is to provide] affordable
housing and a pathway to
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Cash In Hand Buyers Seeking Homes
By Bruce Haring, Ledger Real Estate Reporter
Money is looking for a
place to call home in the Los
Feliz Ledger readership area.
Richard Stanley of Coldwell Banker notes the early
2015 residential real estate
outlook has lots of buyers in
the market and “no inventory
that is compelling. There’s still
plenty of money looking to
roost someplace solid,” he said.
So, what’s ahead?
According to Stanley, inflationary pressures will raise
interest rates, especially if lower gasoline prices prevail.
Buyers needing a loan,
according to Stanley, may
not have time on their side.
But some sellers, with attractive properties, he predicts,
will do well.
“Sellers of ho-hum properties, especially small rentcontrolled units with below-
market rents, will have to cut
prices to the bone to move
them,” Stanley said. Cash will
continue to be king.”
Data from CoreLogic, a La
Jolla, CA based data research
firm, seconded Stanley’s opinion, but offered a ray of hope.
According to CoreLogic, the
total number of homes sold in
So. California in 2014 fell 8.7%
compared to 2013, although
December saw an uptick in
sales compared to November.
“One month doesn’t make
a trend, but December’s uptick in home sales might indicate renewed interest in housing thanks to [current] lower
mortgage rates and job growth
in recent months,” said Andrew LePage, data analyst for
CoreLogic DataQuick.
“If demand continues to
build, we’ll need more supply
to keep up with it,” said LePage. “One of the big questions
hanging over the housing market is whether higher demand
and home values will lead to
a lot more people listing their
homes for sale, as well as more
new-home construction, which
remains well below average.”
DECEMBER SALES
DQ News, a division of
CoreLogic, reported a strong
volume of sales in the local
residential market for December, although year-over-year
price comparisons were down
in all local areas except for
Echo Park.
In the Los Feliz 90027 zip
code, 14 single-family homes
sold in December for a median
price of $1.298 million, a persquare-foot price of $732. The
price median was down 23% in
This home, at 5060 Los Feliz Blvd., closed escrow Jan. 2nd and sold for $1.35 million. George and Eileen Moreno represented the buyers while Richard Stanley,
of Coldwell Banker, represented the seller. The property had been on the market
since March 2014 and was originally listed for $1.65 million.
year-over-year comparisons for
the month. Two condos sold for
a median price of $483, down
19.4% year-over-year.
Echo Park’s 90026 zip
code saw 14 single-family
homes sold for a median price
of $863,000, up 22.6% yearover-year and reflecting a
per-square-foot price of $631.
Condo sales data was not
available.
In the Silver Lake 90039
zip code, 21 single family
homes sold for a median price
of $694,000, down 9.2% yearover-year and reflecting a persquare-foot sales price of $555.
No condo data was available.
In Hollywood’s 90068 zip
code, 22 single-family homes
sold for a median price of
$975,000, down 2.4% yearover-year and reflecting a
per-square-foot sales price of
$606. Seven condos sold for
a median sales price of $363,
down 28.2% year-over-year.
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Mike Schaefer
[cd4 election]
Los Feliz Priority List for the Candidates
• Parking reform: L.A. residents are “over ticketed” for
city revenue
• Homelessness:
Education is needed so population
knows what is
available to them.
Would have his staff work directly with homeless
Tara Bannister
Rostom Sarkissian
Compiled by Colin Stutz, Bruce Haring and Bridgette Webb
Edited by Allison B. Cohen
This month, here is a list of
the Los Angeles City Council
District 4 candidates responses when asked to prioritize
what they feel are the one or
two key issues main issues of
concern in the Los Feliz area.
Here’s what they said:
Steve Veres
• Homelessness.
“The city has no
official policy that
I am aware of.”
Thinks the police
and fire department should be
trained in the way the LAPD
was in the 1990s in handling
domestic violence calls to handle helping the homeless population
• Repairing the city’s budget
and structural issues
Shelia Irani
• Crumbling sidewalks: fix more of
them faster with a
50/50
program
where homeowners
pay half and the city the rest
• Strengthening business by
relaxing street parking to encourage shopping
• Improve public’s use of mass
transit by adding van pools to
the mix
Wally Knox
• Greek Theater Management: “Nederlander,” he said,
“has a great reputation working with the community while
Live Nation,” does not.
Jay Beeber
• Ensure stronger council offer
that will review projects beforehand, like the Greek Theater proposals, for less community conflict and debate
Fred Mariscal
Unavailable for comment
• Homelessness:
Shift in the way
the public perceives the homeless
• Customer service: city
needs to adopt “Nordstrom”
approach
• Property Crime: reduce it
by giving the LAPD the proper tools and training
• Greek Theater: “Choose
Nederlander and get this done
with.”
Tomas O’Grady
• City waste: Can
fix the $800,000
city funded Vermont
Triangle
with 50 volunteers
and with less than $1,300
• Bad Politics: homeless encampment at the Triangle
result of “confusing politics,
quick fixes and a lack of a
maintenance plan
• Overpaid Politicians:
Would cut his salary in half
and donate it to homeless
agencies
• Los Feliz Boulevard Congestion:
create a neighborhood bus system
to help alleviate
traffic
• Mass Transit: Build more
parking around mass transit
stations to encourage ridership
Carolyn Ramsay
• Job Creation:
Will create well
paid creative jobs
in entertainment
and technology,
for example
• Homelessness: Will help coalitions develop realistic goals
Teddy Davis
• Los Feliz Boulevard Congestion:
Prohibit parking
during both morning and afternoon
rush hour and create a bus
“carve out” near Mulholland
Fountain
• Traffic: Better synchronize
stop lights
Step Jones
Unavailable for comment
Joan Pelico
• Dysfunctional
Relat ionships:
Says broken pipes
and potholes could
get fixed faster and
cheaper if city departments
worked better together
• Overreaching Developers:
Communities’ vision plans
should offset developer’s requests for variances.
David Ryu
• Greek Theater
Ma nagement:
Says Nederlander
has proven to a
“reasonably” good
neighbor, especially with traffic concerns.
• Outdated City: Wants to
bring LA’s infrastructure “into
the 21st Century” with timed
street cleaners and parking
regulations that match traffic
patterns
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LA Spouts Water Aplenty From
So Many Busting Pipes
Hollywood Hills Has Most Leaks Citywide
By Bridgette Webb, Ledger Contributing Writer
According to a recent
analysis by the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles has a
plethora of aging pipes on the
verge of leaking or breaking
and many are in Silver Lake,
Hollywood and the Hollywood Hills.
Already, areas in and
around the Hollywood Hills
had 500 leaks combined since
2010. The area accounts for
the most amount of leaks citywide or 10% of the region’s
total.
According to the Los
Angeles Dept. of Water and
Power (LADWP) since 2010,
Hollywood, the Hollywood
Hills and Silver Lake have had
157, 123 and 105 water pipe
breaks, respectively.
“Most of the pipes are
old,” said Los Angeles City
Councilmember Tom LaBonge. “The pipes near where
I live [in Silver Lake] were put
in during the 1950s and [last]
replaced in the 1990… The
pipes are going to bust.”
According to LaBonge,
his record shows he has always
supported programs to replace
the city’s pipes.
Los Angeles water mains
break, on average, three times
a day amounting to 1,200
leaks a year across the city, according to the LADWP.
Old pipes mean weak
ones. Currently, replacing
them is a priority, according to
LADWP spokesperson Albert
Rodriguez.
Which pipes get fixed first
is triaged based on the pipe’s
age; its leak history; the material of which it is made and
how much corrosion it has suffered.
Since implementing a
citywide main line replacement program in 2006, the
LADWP starting installing a
“protective anode,” which is
a metal placed over the pipes
that sacrifices itself by corroding first thereby increasing
the pipe’s lifespan. The cost of
each anode is $120 and covers
the entire pipe.
In the last eight years,
the number of such protective anodes installed on city
pipes is few. Currently, only
200 pipes have received such
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treatment, mostly on Los
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officials said has more soil
prone to corrosion, directly
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“It wouldn’t be cost effective to apply anodes to all of the
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Corrosion was, however,
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which spilled more than 20
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issues and severe corrosion
and were between 83 and 93
years old.
In addition to its fledgling
“anode” program, since last
year the LADWP has replaced
only 22 of 7,200 miles of pipes
in Los Angeles.
According to Rodriguez,
the LADWP spokesman, the
agency is currently evaluating
how to get this work done—
and more miles of it—faster.
Los Angeles City Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell,
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Pipe breaks, year to date,
since 2010 in Los Angeles
Council District 13 were: Hollywood, with 157; Silver Lake
with 105; East Hollywood, 95,
Echo Park with 61 and Atwater Village, 14.
In Los Angeles City Coun-
cil District 4 the numbers were:
Hancock Park, 63; Los Feliz,
51; Larchmont Village, 35 and
Windsor Square, 28.
The LADWP’s budget averages over $700 million per
year. During the last decade,
36% of the agency’s overall
budget has been used for replacing and repairing pipes,
conduits and reservoirs.
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triangle from page 1
located at the intersection of
Vermont Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard.
The Triangle, which
was renovated by the city for
$800,000 in 2008, has become a magnet destination for
homeless individuals.
Because of U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rulings
in 2012 that upheld homeless
individual rights, removing
encampments, officials said,
now takes weeks instead of
days.
Adding to the problem
is the Vermont Triangle is on
the border of Council Districts
4 and 13, leading, at times, to
jurisdictional finger pointing,
some social services advocates
said.
However, The Triangle,
technically is in Council District 4, which is represented
by soon-to-be termed out Tom
LaBonge.
According to Dana Cremin, chair of the recently
formed East Hollywood Los
Feliz Homeless Coalition, efforts to remove the homeless
from the neighboring Council
District 13, which councilmember Mitch O’Farrell oversees, have been so successful,
the homeless have left much of
that area and relocated to Los
Feliz.
According to Cremin, the
Triangle, as public property,
does not have a curfew or a
closing time.
“As long as they’re not
blocking the walkways during
the day, they can stay there,”
Cremin said. “Then [they] can
sleep and block the walkways
all they want overnight.”
The result, as one Los Feliz
Village Business Improvement
District governing boardmember recently said is that
The Triangle “at this point has
become a permanent encampment.”
DEBATE OVER A SURGE
However, despite appearances, there is no increase of
homeless individuals in the
Los Feliz area, according to
Jeremy Sidell, a spokesman for
PATH, which provides housing and support services to the
homeless.
Instead, Sidell said, a lack
of affordable housing and inadequate outreach programs
has resulted in encampments
that have become more entrenched and have multiplied,
possibly giving some the sense
there is an increase.
“If it’s easier for people to
stay in one spot, there is the
appearance of an increase,” he
said.
Sidell also said homeless sweeps in downtown Los
Angeles for example, haven’t
had an effect on the situation
locally. Although he added:
“It’s not surprising that people
experiencing
homelessness
would seek other, safer communities to live in.”
However, Cremin disagreed, saying, currently,
CD13, which oversees Hollywood, has had more human
and monetary resources behind it to help solve the problem.
“[Hollywood’s]
homeless coalition has enormous
strength because it’s run by
their business improvement
district,” she said. “They have
an enormous budget.”
The Hollywood outreach
has private security and fulltime outreach teams, Cremin
noted, something the local
coalition is hoping to institute via its own fundraising efforts, which are now
at $80,000 toward a goal of
$150,000.
If that amount is reached,
according to Cremin, those
funds can pay for a full-time
outreach team in conjunction
with PATH.
Meanwhile, officials said
the city is doing what it can to
remove encampments.
Aram Taslagyan, a field
deputy with O’Farrell’s office,
said the encampment near the
Los Feliz Vons should be removed by now.
According to Taslagyan,
because of the 9th Circuit rulings, the city has to visit encampments numerous times
urging individuals to move
along or seek social services.
“What used to take three
days now takes a month,” he
said.
LFIA To Host CD4 Candidate Forum
Feb. 2nd
GRIFFITH PARK—The Los Feliz Improvement Association
(LFIA) will host a Los Angeles City Council Candidate
Forum at the Autry National
Center’s Wells Fargo Theatre in
Griffith Park Feb. 2nd at 7:00
p.m. KABC’s Elex Michaelson
will be the moderator.
All 14 candidates for City
Council District 4 seat have
been invited to participate. To
date the following have responded: Jay Beeber, Tara Bannister, Teddy Davis, Sheila Irani, Wally Knox, Fred Mariscal,
Tomas O’Grady, Joan Pelico,
Carolyn Ramsay, David Ryu,
Rostom Sarkassian, Michael
Schaefer and Steve Veres.
“Our candidate forums are
popular events and always wellattended by our members,” said
LFIA President Chris Laib. “We
are an involved and active community organization and work
closely with our city council
representative. This election is
very important to us.”
The LFIA, formed in
1916, is the oldest continuously active residents’ association
in Los Angeles. It’s also one of
the largest with close to 1,000
dues paying members.
For information:
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ART
Jason Freeny & Miso & William
Mortensen. Jason Freeny
reflects the display of transition
inherent in the subject matter
of his sculptural pieces in
Molt . William Mortensen’s
American Grotesque is a
retrospective of grotesque,
occult, and erotic images by
Hollywood photographer
William Mortensen. Miso’s
work is Cornucopia , which
began as a meditation on
16th century Flemish still life
paintings. Opens Feb. 6th. La
Luz de Jesus Gallery, Fri., Feb.
6th, 8 p.m. Through March.
1st. 4633 Hollywood Blvd., Los
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BOOKS
Sarah Gerard. A debut novel
Binary Star is an account of a
young woman struggling with
anorexia and her long-distance,
alcoholic boyfriend. Skylight
Books, Tues. Feb. 17th, 7:30
p.m. 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los
Feliz. Information: (323) 6601175; skylightbooks.com
SCIENCE & NATURE
Sunset Walk and Talk. Visit the
Observatory with a Park Ranger
and Museum Guide. Free.
Griffith Observatory, Tues.,
February 2015
Feb. 24th, 5:30 p.m. 2800 E.
Observatory Road, Griffith
Park. Information: (213) 4730800; griffithobservatory.org
Sex and the City Zoo. Have a
wild Valentine’s celebrating
romance in the animal kingdom.
Ticket prices, not available.
Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical
Gardens, Sat., Feb. 7th. 5 p.m.
5333 Zoo Drive, Los Angeles.
Information: lazoo.org
18th Annual Masters of the
American West Fine Art
Exhibition and Sale. This
exhibition showcases new
work by nationally recognized
artists such as Bill Anton,
George Carlson, Tammy Garcia,
Robert Griffing, Z. S. Liang, Kyle
Polzin, Mian Situ, Tucker Smith,
Howard Terpning, and Morgan
Weistling. Admission is $10
for adults, $6 for students and
seniors. The Autry, Tues.-Fri., 10
a.m. to 4 p.m., Sat.-Sun., 10 a.m.
to 5 p.m. 4700 Western Heritage
Way, Griffith Park. Through
March 8th. Information: (323)
667-2000; theautry.org
THEATER & DANCE
Fugue. Set simultaneously
in Austria, Italy and Russia,
playwright Tommy Smith
canonizes the stories of three
love triangles of composers:
Piotr Tchaikovsky, Arnold
Schoenberg and Carlo
Gesualdo. As new affairs heat
up, old lovers are left lurking
in the shadows. Tickets, $25.
Atwater Village Theatre,
through March 22nd. Fridays
and Saturdays, 8 p.m. Sundays, 7
p.m. 3269 Casitas Ave., Atwater
Village. Information: (310) 3073753; EchoTheaterCompany.com
Reborning. A young artist
begins to suspect a demanding
client may be the mother
who abandoned her at birth.
As she tries to unravel the
mystery, she discovers her
own path. Tickets, $30; $20
students and $25 seniors.
Fountain Theatre, Through
March 15. Thursdays, Fridays,
Saturdays, 8 p.m. Sundays, 2
p.m. 5060 Fountain Ave., East
Hollywood. Information: (323)
663-1525; fountaintheatre.com
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We Read Together Storytime
with Babies and Toddlers. Very
short stories, songs and rhymes
for babies and toddlers. Silver
Lake Library, Mon., Feb. 23rd, 10
a.m. 2411 Glendale Blvd., Silver
Lake. Information: (323) 9137451; lapl.org
Building Bricks Club. Join other
families at the library to build
with Lego. Edendale Library,
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MARKET UPDATE
A year by year comparison of solds in the area.
LOS FELIZ (SFH)
2014
AVERAGE LIST PRICE
AVERAGE LIST PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT
AVERAGE SOLD PRICE
AVERAGE SOLD PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT
TOTAL SOLD
ALL
< $1M
$1M - $3M
> $3M
$1,519,900
$740,765
$1,688,982
$4,534,479
$643.29
$529.67
$621.76
$938.78
$1,506,078
$751,273
$1,666,509
$4,435,083
$638.22
$537.58
$614.18
$924.59
247
94
135
18
TOTAL SFH FOR SALE AT END OF PERIOD
28
7
18
3
AVERAGE MONTHLY SUPPLY OF INVENTORY
1.5
1.2
1.6
1.8
99%
101%
99%
98%
ALL
< $1M
$1M - $3M
> $3M
$1,263,869
$701,155
$1,581,913
$3,819,325
AVERAGE SOLD PRICE/ORIGINAL LIST PRICE RATIO
2013
AVERAGE LIST PRICE
AVERAGE LIST PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT
AVERAGE SOLD PRICE
AVERAGE SOLD PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT
$541.52
$484.69
$540.02
$815.64
$1,263,569
$710,116
$1,584,627
$3,643,750
541.29
491.29
540.92
775.80
TOTAL SOLD
269
128
132
9
TOTAL SFH FOR SALE AT END OF PERIOD
44
13
25
6
AVERAGE MONTHLY SUPPLY OF INVENTORY
2.7
2.8
2.5
3.6
AVERAGE SOLD PRICE/ORIGINAL LIST PRICE RATIO
2014 v 2013 AVERAGE SOLD PRICE
100%
101%
100%
95%
21.06%
6.54%
4.56%
13.8%
ALL
< $1M
$1M - $3M
> $3M
$854,594
$664,073
$1,285,288
$5,625,000
$534.18
$507.34
$548.40
$1,209,61
$884,099
$679,617
$1,343,697
$6,025,000
$552.95
$519.35
$574.52
$1,293.13
SILVERLAKE – ECHO PARK (SFH)
2014
AVERAGE LIST PRICE
AVERAGE LIST PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT
AVERAGE SOLD PRICE
AVERAGE SOLD PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT
TOTAL SOLD
310
227
81
2
TOTAL SFH FOR SALE AT END OF PERIOD
39
32
7
0
AVERAGE MONTHLY SUPPLY OF INVENTORY
1.4
1.7
0.8
0
103%
102%
105%
107%
ALL
< $1M
$1M - $3M
> $3M
AVERAGE SOLD PRICE/ORIGINAL LIST PRICE RATIO
2013
AVERAGE LIST PRICE
$694,445
$606,779
$1,216,743
$0
AVERAGE LIST PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT
$472.27
$454.45
$544.57
$0.00
AVERAGE SOLD PRICE
$711,305
$618,429
$1,257,372
$0
484.13
463.62
562.60
0.00
359
305
54
0
47
39
8
0
AVERAGE SOLD PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT
TOTAL SOLD
TOTAL SFH FOR SALE AT END OF PERIOD
AVERAGE MONTHLY SUPPLY OF INVENTORY
AVERAGE SOLD PRICE/ORIGINAL LIST PRICE RATIO
2014 v 2013 AVERAGE SOLD PRICE
1.5
1.6
1
0
102%
102%
103%
N/A
24.90%
9.84%
8.32%
N/A
ALL
< $1M
$1M - $3M
> $3M
$1,298,942
$841,247
$1,453,860
$3,546,000
HOLLYWOOD HILLS EAST (SFH)
2014
AVERAGE LIST PRICE
AVERAGE LIST PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT
AVERAGE SOLD PRICE
AVERAGE SOLD PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT
TOTAL SOLD
$551.25
$494.27
$557.89
$780.29
$1,280,733
$817,668
$1,436,317
$3,553,750
$543.91
$481.99
$551.51
$780.68
143
50
89
4
TOTAL SFH FOR SALE AT END OF PERIOD
35
8
26
1
AVERAGE MONTHLY SUPPLY OF INVENTORY
2.8
1.6
3.5
3
99%
97%
99%
100%
ALL
< $1M
$1M - $3M
> $3M
$1,133,025
$819,446
$1,417,102
$4,911,500
AVERAGE SOLD PRICE/ORIGINAL LIST PRICE RATIO
2013
AVERAGE LIST PRICE
AVERAGE LIST PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT
AVERAGE SOLD PRICE
AVERAGE SOLD PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT
$486.18
$450.22
$498.90
$733.14
$1,116,961
$803,531
$1,407,754
$4,600,000
478.84
441.11
494.91
685.13
TOTAL SOLD
175
95
78
2
TOTAL SFH FOR SALE AT END OF PERIOD
25
7
18
0
AVERAGE MONTHLY SUPPLY OF INVENTORY
AVERAGE SOLD PRICE/ORIGINAL LIST PRICE RATIO
2014 V 2013 AVERAGE SOLD PRICE
*Source: All figures included are reported by the MLS/CLAW (12/31/14).
1.9
1.2
2.3
0
99%
98%
99%
94%
13.73%
1.39%
0.19%
-22.74%
SILVER LAKE | 1433 Westerly Terrace | Listed at $1,675,000 | SOLD
Steel/concrete/wood/glass circa 1917 Historic Colonial Mansion set above the street on a large
corner lot. 2 story 3b/2.5ba home with terraces to the views of downtown and the Silver Lake hills.
Rosemary Low 323.363.0381
LOS FELIZ | 2580Nottingham.com
web: 0285967 | $4,997,000
4bd/7ba Landmark Italianate Masterpiece c.
1924 by Architect WC Tanner on famed street.
Views, extensive grounds, pool/spa and studio.
Konstantine V. | Rick Yohon 323.270.1725
KOREA TOWN | 435 S. Mariposa Ave. | SOLD
Listed at $4,820,000
60s modern 26 unit apartment building in prime
Korea town. Close to metro, shops and restaurants. Strong rents with great upside. Rep buyer.
Eric McCollum 323.646.5476
WEST HOLLYWOOD | 1023LaJolla.com
web: 0285911 | $2,450,000
Exceptional restoration of this property has
brought back the homes original splendor. Delivered vacant, single family home or compound.
Travis Parker 310.600.2128
LOS FELIZ | 4817 Glencairn Road | SOLD
Listed at $2,278,000
4bd/4ba Spanish Monterey Colonial with a media room, spa, huge backyard enteraining area
with its’ own meditation deck and city view.
Rosemary Low 323.363.0381
SILVER LAKE | 2150 Moreno Drive | In Escrow
web: 0285996 | $1,598,000
2-story traditional with superb views of the lake.
Charming living room with fireplace and French
doors to the huge deck and yard.
Rosemary Low 323.363.0381
SILVER LAKE | 2223 Micheltorena Street
web: 0285972 | $1,469,800
Architectural 3ba/3ba, master den and office
home on one of the best streets in Silver Lake.
Dramatic views of the Hollywood sign and more.
Rosemary Low 323.363.0381
LOS FELIZ | 2001 N. New Hampshire Avenue
web: 0286008 | $1,149,000
Charming Spanish 4 bedroom Bungalow with
pool and spa conveniently located in Franklin
Square. Close to Los Feliz village.
Manvel Tabakian 323.376.2222
SILVER LAKE | 1997 Lucile Avenue
web: 0286046 | $1,095,000
Circa 1933 home in prime Silver Lake 2bd/3ba
plus office with character and spectacular views.
Separate studio, Ivanhoe elementary.
Konstantine V. | Rick Yohon 323.270.1725
HIGHLAND PARK | 5655 Range View Ave | SOLD
Listed at $1,048,000
HabHouse presents an expansive, compelling
treasure. Refined, natural elegance, upscale finishes. Sold with multiple offerings above asking.
Michelle St. Clair 213.304.4943
LAUREL CANYON | 8811 Skyline Drive
web: 0285722 | $975,000
Move-in ready 2bd/1ba has been renovated with
style and careful attention to detail. Great floor
plan with laundry room, and bonus office area.
Rob Kallick 323.775.6305
HIGHLAND PARK | 1703 N. Avenue 55
web: 0285982 | $719,000
Gorgeous redone Spanish bungalow 3bd/2ba.
Huge master suite, flat grassy yard, Separate
studio. A winner. 1703northavenue55.com
Konstantine V. | Rick Yohon 323.270.1725
SILVER LAKE | 2342 Earl Street | In Escrow
web: 0308204 | $699,000
Spanish 3bd/2ba bungalow, circa 1923. Close
to lake. Shopping and restaurants. Views of
Silver Lake, Observatory and Hollywood sign.
Jeffrey Young 213.819.9630
HOLLYWOOD | 1120 N. El Centro Ave #18
web: 0286002 | $449,000
Cool modern 2-level town home style loft with
tall ceilings conveniently located in Hollywood
near the “W” and “Cahuenga Corridor”.
Manvel Tabakian 323.376.2222
SILVER LAKE | 2635 Adelbert Avenue
web: 0286037 | $110,000
Silver Lake view lot available now. Above Fletcher
and Riverside. View of the San Gabriel Moutains.
Vacant lot since 1970’s.
Lynn Shepodd | Ann Saucier 323.301.6331
SILVER LAKE | 1954 Redesdale Avenue
web: 0286036 | $16,000/month
One the residence of modernist architect, David
Hyun, this Mid-Century, coveted compound
dazzles with spectacular views. 5bd/3.5ba.
Bridgett T. Davis 310.339.2428
LOS FELIZ | 5510 Red Oak Drive | LEASED
Listed at $12,000/month
Gorgeous Spanish home, designed by Steve
Mizuki in 2009, in the Oaks of Los Feliz. Boasting
4bd/4ba, Oak plank floors, huge kitchen & more.
Rosemary Low 323.660.5885
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420 TROUSDALE PL, BEVERLY HILLS
$35,000,000
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$2, 250,000
Almost 2 acres of land w/lrg motor crt on coveted st in BH
4bd+4.5ba, w/ pool&spa. Late Architect Hal Levitt, archi-
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Myra Nourmand
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3523 PERLITA AVE, ATWATER VILL AGE
barrel ceilings, master suite & large deck .
Courtney Smith & Alyssa Valentine
$799,000
Fabulously updated split-level Mid Century pad with 3
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$595,000
$2,199,000
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1027 W. ANGELENO #110, BURBANK
$549,000
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310.963.4205
2028 WALCOTT WAY, ECHO PARK
$799,000
Secluded & updated compound. 2+2, custom kit & open
concept living. Lower bonus unit perfect for guests.
Courtney Smith & Alyssa Valentine
323.899.8509
3659 EDENHURST, ATWATER VILL AGE
$659,000
Secluded 1300sf 3+2 on oversized lot w/2 lrg flat portions,
6 terraced grdns & dtchd structure w/views.
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[eastside eye]
@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz Spotlights Political Prisoners
By Kathy A. McDonald, Ledger Columnist
Symbolism, paired with
irony and a saber-sharp wit,
are the cornerstones of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s work.
Last seen in Los Angeles at
the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where his massive
bronze Chinese zodiac sculptures graced the entry court,
his current site specific exhibition entitled @Large: AiWeiwei
on Alcatraz is now occupying
the most unique of galleries:
various sections and buildings
of the former federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island.
The seven mixed media installations explore creative freedom and human rights. Their
import is enhanced within the
historic context of the infamous
facility, now one of the most visited national parks.
Although Ai Weiwei is
not allowed to leave China, he
remains a formidable presence
on the world art scene as an
artist who stands firm on creative expression and resistant
to government suppression.
On Alcatraz, his installation Stay Tuned, A Block uses
the 9’ by 5’ prison cells for an
audio presentation. Visitors sit
on stainless steel stools and listen to famed dissidents—including Martin Luther King
and Russia’s Pussy Riot—
speak and sing about human
rights and other issues. The
words—and ideas—transcend
the silent and confining metal
and concrete cells.
In the prison’s former
hospital—rarely open to public tours—the peeling paint
and eerie decaying operating
and examination rooms are a
backdrop to Blossom, Hospital,
a series of fragile white porcelain flowers displayed in sinks,
toilets and bathtubs, and Illumination, Hospital, where
recorded chants from Hopi
Indians—once Alcatraz’s prisoners— and Buddhist monks
echo through the psychiatric
observations cells.
The last stop on Alcatraz’s
recorded audio tour is the dining hall. It’s here that the exhibition invites visitors to participate. Colorful scenic postcards
are on display: each is blank except for the address of one of the
175-political prisoners whose
portraits is the exhibition’s centerpiece. Visitors are encouraged
The words and ideas of Ai Weiwei’s work transcend the silent and confining metal and concrete cells of the Alcatraz Island
prison.
to write them a note while contemplating the crimes that led
them to incarceration.
Trace, New Industries
Building, at first resembles a
shiny plastic patchwork quilt.
Upon closer inspection, the
colorful patches are revealed to
be portraits built using Legos.
The patches were meticulously
crafted in the artist’s Beijing
studio and reassembled on the
vast empty floor of the prison.
If Clutter Is Keeping You Up at Night
Consider Into the Light Organizing Service
By Kimberly Gomez, Ledger Columnist
client’s car before even stepping into the office or home.
“Every object has a thought
attached to it and people get
into a spiral,” she said. “When
I’m there, I’m removed,” from
those attachments. “I help a client work with spaces and problem solving.”
Organizing others, Wakefield said, it actually fun, like
playing a matching game.
This is, perhaps, a testament to her artistic mind.
Wakefield realized shortly af-
More than one million
Legos were used and the Lego
photo-realistic portraits reveal
prisoners of conscience—from
Nobel Peace Prize winner
Aung San Suu Kyi to whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Glass block walls illuminate
the space and the brightly colored portraits.
Finally, at the building’s
entrance, With Wind, New Industries Building, resembles a
typical Chinese paper dragon
kite but is fixed within the
building, never able to fly—a
floating metaphor of captivity.
A visit to the exhibition
is included in the price of an
Alcatraz cruise ticket ($30 for
adults). Reservations are highly recommended. Through
April 26th.
ter finishing art school that she
was great at organizing spaces.
Her epiphany came when the
clutter she needed cleared out
of her own environment was
all the books she’d bought on
organizing.
According to Wakefield,
working with her clients balances her life and frees her
mind for her other passions,
creating media art with clay
and paint.
Her clients claim that
Wakefield brings calm to
where there once was disarray.
When Charles Taylor, of
Echo Park, founded his marketing firm, he added Wakefield to his team so he could
focus on building his new
business. Taylor said, it was
anticipating his workflow and
storage needs—even the location to put wastebaskets—that
made the difference.
Wakefield set up systems
for Taylor so now he can handle his growing business without becoming overwhelmed.
And he and Wakefield
meet twice weekly, he said,
just to keep his inbox from
overflowing.
“What am I willing to pay
for not having stress?” Taylor
asked. “I’d pay a lot more.”
Information:
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project/ai-weiwei-alcatraz/
For information:
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Kathleen Wakefield, pictured here with client Charles Taylor of Echo Park, said
organizing is “fun” like playing a game.
ECHO PARK— If organizing is
the key to productivity, why is
it beyond the reach of otherwise highly effective people?
According to Kathleen
Wakefield, a professional organizer, when you lose control
of your environment, it doesn’t
have to be insurmountable.
Just ask Los Feliz Real Estate Broker, Alexis Hall, who
contacted Wakefield’s Into
The Light Organizing Service
when things got ugly.
“Not being able to find
your tax documents and being
behind on utility bills because
you don’t know where they are
was a horrible way of living,”
February 2015
Hall said.
Over the past 10 years,
Wakefield has assisted Hall
in organizing her businesses,
moving, and even design the
right flow in her kitchen.
“We worked in a collaborative way and I really got on
board with the concepts,” said
Hall. “Kathleen is very much
about being intuitive with how
you work and your habits.”
The question Wakefield
likes to ask her client: What is
keeping you up at night?
The answers Wakefield
gets guides the first step toward clearing the clutter.
Sometimes, she organizes a
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LIFESTYLES Page 23
Los Feliz Ledger
[CD 4 election]
Ryu Remains Top In Funding And Spending
By Colin Stutz, Ledger Contributing Writer
As candidates head into
the final month of campaigning for Los Angeles City
Council District 4, the race is
crowded with candidates and
money.
With 14 names still competing to replace termed out
councilmember Tom LaBonge, as of Dec. 31st, about
$1.6 million had been raised
between the candidates and
$600,000 spent, making it
the most expensive race in the
city’s upcoming March 3rd
elections.
CD4 includes Hollywood
Hills to Silver Lake as well as
Miracle Mile, Hancock Park,
Windsor Square and Larchmont Village neighborhoods.
Sherman Oaks is also part of
the district.
As of Dec. 31st, community mental health director
David Ryu continues to lead
the pack in overall fundraising
with nearly $311,000 in total
donations.
He’s not just building
a stockpile, though. Ryu is
spending his money, too, and
at a higher rate than any other
candidate.
Thus far, Ryu has spent
over $116,000 since announcing his candidacy last
February. And, he spent over
$70,000 alone from October
until the end of the year—
nearly double that of Carolyn
Ramsay, who comes in second
with campaign donations.
But Ryu’s impressive
cash flow comes without city
matching funds, which many
view as an important benchmark representative of community support.
However, to date, 74% of
Ryu’s funding has come from
zip codes outside the district.
Matching funds have two
critical benchmarks. For a
coveted 2:1 match, candidates
must have had 1,000 verified
signatures in the district by
the end of December. Once
that is established, the matching funds come into play after
the candidate then collects
200 donations of $5 or more
from within the district.
To receive 1:1 matching
funds, the criteria is the same,
except the candidate only had
to file 500 verifiable signatures
by the December deadline and
pay a $500 fee to the city.
Ramsay, Teddy Davis and
Tomas O’Grady are the only
candidates thus far to qualify
for 2:1 matching funds.
The intent of the matching funds program is to reward candidates that have
proven they have local support
to balance those, for instance,
As of Dec. 31st, community mental health
director David Ryu continues to lead the pack
in overall fundraising with nearly $311,000
in total donations.
that may be funded heavily by
special interests.
Independent groups, such
as labor unions and business
organizations, can spend as
much as they like to support
or oppose candidates, so long
as they do not coordinate their
efforts with any campaign.
Ramsay’s local support has
been strong throughout her
candidacy. Having served the
district since 2006, her years
of experience in the neighborhood have manifested in
71% of her total contributions
coming from zip codes within
CD4 — $175,766 in all. She
has received more money lo-
[assemblymember mike gatto]
“Privacy Wiki” Returns Government
to the People
By California Assemblymember Mike Gatto
One of the
most famous lines in any
speech from the history of the
United States is the final line
of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address in which he
challenges all Americans to
ensure “that government of
the people by the people for
the people, shall not perish
from the earth.”
The growth of globalization and special interests can
make it feel like the government no longer is “by the people and for the people.” In addition to authoring measures
like AJR 1—my resolution to
overturn the Supreme Court’s
decision in Citizens United and
ensure the voices of everyday
Californians aren’t drowned
out by moneyed interests—I
have also sought to use modern technology to find new
ways to engage directly with
my constituents and share information and ideas. That’s why last year, I issued a challenge to Californians across the state to help
me draft the United States’
first-ever
crowdsourced
“Wikibill.” The effort was designed
to perfect other citizen-parPage 24 POLITICS
ticipation mechanisms like
petitions.whitehouse.gov—
which lacks mechanisms to
force the government to act—
and California’s Ballot Initiative process, which can tie the
hands of elected officials in
perpetuity. The Wiki process was the
perfect balance because it allowed vast numbers of people
to directly participate in their
government, but the ideas get
vetted through the legislative
process. The final result, AB
1520, received overwhelming
support from the legislature
and was signed into law by
Governor Brown.
So I’m repeating the
Wikibill challenge this year,
but with a special focus on
privacy. There are growing
fears in our society about the
ability for technology to intrude into our personal lives
and violate individual liberties and almost everyone has
an opinion on how California’s privacy laws could be
improved. I hope the Wikibill
demonstrates that modern
technology can be used to
protect privacy and increase
democratic participation.
Those interested in par-
cally than any of the other
candidates.
And while most other
candidates’ local fundraising slowed considerably over
the last quarter, suggesting
perhaps the district has been
squeezed dry, Ramsay raised
another $33,750 from indistrict zip codes. Nonprofit
director and entrepreneur
Tomás O’Grady raised the sec-
ticipating should visit MikeGatto.wikia.com. Once there,
users can see what other people have proposed, propose
bill text themselves, edit what
others have offered up and
view the history of the entire
process—just like a Wikipedia
entry. I will introduce whatever consensus emerges by the
State Legislature’s bill-introduction deadline, which is in
early February.
I hope you’ll participate
in the Wikibill and take advantage of other methods to
ensure you have a voice in
government, like voting. If
you or someone you know is
not registered to vote, you can
now do so online, by visiting
registertovote.ca.gov/
Mike Gatto is the Chairman of the Consumer Protection
and Privacy Committee and the
longest-serving current member
of the State Assembly. He represents Burbank, Glendale, La
Cañada Flintridge, La Crescenta, Montrose, and the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Atwater
Village, East Hollywood, Franklin Hills, Hollywood Hills, Los
Feliz, and Silver Lake. Follow
him on Twitter @MikeGatto or
visit www.asm.ca.gov/gatto www.losfelizledger.com
ond most locally with $17,235.
Of the top six fundraisers in the race, Community
College District Trustee and
former Los Angeles Director to California State Assemblymember Sen. Kevin
de Leon (D-Los Angeles) —
Steve Veres has received the
least total amount of local
contributions.
Out of Veres’ total
$226,650 in fundraising, 15%
has come from zip codes within CD4. More broadly, just
1/3rd of Veres’ contributions
have come from inside the city
of Los Angeles. The rest have
come largely from neighbor-
ing cities around Southern
California.
Despite what he may lack
in apparent local support,
Veres has some strong organizations behind him. He was
recently endorsed by the Los
Angeles County Democratic
Party and has a number of labor unions backing him.
What’s more, Veres’ average donation is significantly
higher than his competition.
While the rest of the pack will
bring in around $300 to $400
per person—out of a $700
maximum allowed—Veres averages $525 per contributor.
While it is not always the
candidate with the most money who wins an election, fundraising figures provide insight
to candidates’ broad and local
support. In the 2013 election
for Council District 13, which
neighbors CD4 to the east,
the two top candidates, Mitch
O’Farrell and John Choi, consistently had the highest overall fundraising figures or largest amount of local support
through donations.
O’Farrell ultimately defeated Choi in a runoff election, spending $357,000 less
than to do so. Choi is now
filling Veres’ recently vacated
role as de Leon’s Los Angeles
interim district director.
[greetings from Tom]
Now That the Parties Are Over
Do Your Part to Keep LA Clean
By Los Angeles City Councilmember Tom LaBonge
As the holidays
have
passed,
our
family gatherings
and
parties have
unfortunately
generated more trash from
decorations and food waste.
Now that these get-togethers
are over, think about how
much Los Angeles does to help
keep our city clean. My experience during my many years
in public service has shown me
that the full participation of a
wise, caring, well-informed
public contributes to the best
neighborhoods.
I appreciate all those in
the community who continue to clean and make sure
they do not let their waste
fall into our storm drains.
The city’s Bureau of Sanitation does an impeccable job
in operating and maintaining one of the world’s larg-
est wastewater collection and
treatment systems. According to the bureau, over 6,500
miles of sewers serve more
than 4 million residential
and business customers in
Los Angeles and 29 contracting cities and agencies.
These sewers are connected to the city’s four wastewater
and water reclamation plants
that process an average of 550
million gallons of wastewater
each day of the year. These
sewers and treatment systems
are upgraded constantly, but
citizens must also do their part
to help keep our city clean.
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[a dog’s life]
Kickstarter: Dog Café?
By Jennifer Clark, Ledger Columnist
On the heels
of the popular
pop up CatFe in Chinatown
this summer, Sarah Wolfgang
has her sights set on opening
Los Angeles’s first dog cafe
that will reinvent, she says,
“the way we connect with
homeless dogs.”
Wolfgang, 21, said the
idea was inspired by the many
dog cafes she saw while growing up in Korea along with her
passion for saving dogs facing euthanization. At 14, she
volunteered to find 120 dogs
homes that would not have
been saved otherwise.
Relocating to Los Angeles she realized there are more
homeless dogs than adoptions
so she came up with a concept
allowing potential dog adopters to interact with dogs in
need of a home in a more social environment.
No cafe is complete with
out coffee and Wolfgang has
partnered with Grounds &
Hounds Coffee Co., which
serves fair trade organic, 100%
Arabica beans. They also donate 20% of all Southern
California proceeds to local
animal rescue organizations.
Wolfgang said she hopes
the Dog Cafe is able to find
homes for at least 100 dogs
within the first year and she’s
set up a fundraising campaign
on Indigogo.com to raise
the needed $200,000 to get
started. To date, she has raised
about $5,000.
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Diablo Puts the Urban in Tacos
By Pat Saperstein, Ledger Restaurant Critic
When
Diablo
Taco
opened more than two years
ago, longtime locals were
aghast at the inevitable charcoal paint job, the loss of
veteran La Parrilla’s tableside
guacamole and most of all, the
twee explanation “urban taco
fabricator” on the side of the
building.
But there’s no returning
to Silver Lake’s past of cheap
and greasy burrito joints (RIP
Zamora Brothers), so stop
complaining and try a fried
chicken taco already—you
might find you like it.
Divided into two sides,
Diablo is very casual with a
sports bar feel, stocked with
board games, plenty of TVs
for game nights and a solid selection of craft beer.
There’s no hard liquor license, and thus no margaritas, but the various micheladas go down nicely with the
elaborately-topped tacos. A
traditional michelada combines
beer, lime-juice and hot sauce
and Diablo’s version chills out
with housemade paletas (popsicles) and suggested beer pairings. A classic spicy tomato paleta was just right plunged into
a Scrimshaw pilsener, while the
tart jalapeno yuzu lime pop is
recommended yes with a Sculpin IPA. On tap are brews like
Belching Beaver peanut butter
stout, Anthem cherry cider and
SanTan Sex Panther double
chocolate porter.
“How can tacos be $5
each?” is a common question
about Diablo and other modern Mexican restaurants. Well,
it’s not a stand or truck but a
restaurant with a bar, and
it’s not possible to make super cheap tacos using quality
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meats and farmer’s
market vegetables.
The good-sized handfuls
are stuffed with goodies like
purple kale atop the standout
fried chicken. Hen-of-thewoods mushroom tacos are as
satisfying as any meat-based
ones, topped with soy aioli
and garlic oil poached tomatoes. Braised beef cheek tacos
are nearly a meal on a plate,
nestled into a tortilla bursting with horseradish mashed
potatoes. Bison chili, Coca
Cola carne asada and Kurobata pork al pastor with roasted
pineapple are just a few of the
other creative choices, which
run $3 to $6 each. The only
misstep is pork belly with bananas, which has too many
fatty chunks and no crunch.
Grilled sweet corn with
cojita cheese, on or off the
cob, is rich with an aioli sauce,
while chipotle Caesar salad
gets a Mexican touch from
pepitas instead of croutons.
For dessert, there’s churros
with bacon caramel and chipotle chocolate sauce. Sunday
brunch features huevos rancheros and breakfast burritos.
The tacos are tasty, the
beer and popsicles are fun and
who doesn’t like playing Connect Four? But Diablo’s spare
brick surroundings say “industrial” instead of “fiesta,”
and charging $1 extra for salsa
seems a little, well, cheap.
Add some guacamole and
chips to the menu and bring
the prices down just a tad and
the good people of Silver Lake
might be willing to overlook
the hipper-than-thou name.
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Breakfast, Lunch and Now More “Supper” Served by Chef LAUSD
By Bridgette Webb, Ledger Contributing Writer
Los Angeles Unified
School District (LAUSD)
Board Member Bennett Kayser
announced in January students
in his district will now have an
expanded school “supper” program.
There are over 100 schools
in Kayser’s district including
local Marshall High School,
Thomas Starr King Middle
School and Franklin Avenue,
Los Feliz, Micheltorena, Mayberry and Ivanhoe elementary
schools.
The program, which is
offered throughout the entire
LAUSD system, currently
serves 70,000 supper meals
daily at 584 schools.
“Supper” is served at the
participating schools before 6
p.m., just before the time students are required to go home.
The meal includes milk, a
bread or grain, a meat or meat
alternative and two servings of
vegetables or fruit.
Eventually, according to
David Estrada, a budget and
policy analyst for the LAUSD,
the goal is to double the number of children served school
district wide by 2016 and to
eventually offer the program
at every LAUSD school.
While many students at
King, eat breakfast and lunch
provided by the school, currently only 200 out of the allmagnet school’s 1,800 enrollment, partake in the supper
program.
For Kayser, the issue is
deeply personal.
“When I use to teach at
both King and Irving middle schools I use to bring my
lunch to school occasionally,”
he said. According to Kayser,
he would often keep his classroom open during lunch for
students who wanted a quiet
place to read or play chess.
“On more than one occasion,” he said, “I would take
my lunch out of the bag and
kids would come up and ask
if I could share my lunch with
them, because they were hungry. I’ve always remembered
that,” he said.
At King, which is located
in Silver Lake, the program
is structured around the students’ after school activities
like homework club, drill team
and basketball practice.
“It’s great to have a meal
after school, especially if you
are in an after school program
like me,” said Andrea Castillo,
13, an 8th grader at King. “After working so hard, it is nice
to have a break and fuel up,
especially if that is going to be
your last meal of the day.”
According to Sarah Bradshaw, chief of staff with Kayser’s
office, the program seeks to help
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Officials estimate the program, of which the LAUSD is
reimbursed at a significantly
higher rate than the meals cost,
will generate $16.6 million in
revenue for the school district
and will be re-funneled back
into expanding the program.
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Local Painting The Town Blue—
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SILVER LAKE—The Los Angeles Unified School District
Board of Education will vote
in February to approve a complete exterior painting makeover for Thomas Starr King
Middle School, using $30,000
school parents raised last
spring for the project.
“I get goosies just talking
about it,” said Renae Plant,
whose daughter Ilan is currently a King 6th grader.
Plant, who also owns
Camelot Kids preschool in Silver Lake, organized the first-ofits kind “Adult Spelling Bee,”
last May raising $136,000 not
only for King’s repainting, but
Ivanhoe and Franklin Avenue
elementary schools as well.
The expected total cost
to paint King’s campus is
$300,000. The additional
funding, according to Plant,
will come from King’s current
budget and $200,000 from
school board member Bennett
Kayser’s office, which oversees
King and other area schools.
The makeover, Plant said,
will “provide a real sense of
pride,” for King students. “We
are going to turn what looks
like a prison into paradise.”
Color
swatches—dark
blue with light blue over-
not only the over half a million
children in the LAUSD living at
or near poverty, but also frazzled
working parents.
According to LAUSD officials, the program is fully
funded through the United
States Dept. of Agriculture.
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tones—have already been selected. That the hues match the
colors of Marshall High School
is no accident. Parents, according to Plant, are trying to instill
in local families that Marshall
is the perfect school for matriculating King middle schoolers.
“King is the feeder school
for Marshall,” Plant said. “The
two schools connect creating an
amazing sense of community.”
A celebratory ribbon event
in anticipation of the completed paint job—which is expected to start this summer—is
scheduled for Feb. 10th at the
school, 4201 Fountain Ave.
The time for the event has not
been announced.
To see a rendering of what
King Middle School will
look like after it is painted,
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[marshall high school basketball]
Heart and Selfless Hoops
By Bridgette Webb, Ledger contributor
high school. His main goal as
head coach, he said, is to be a
mentor for his team.
“I want to show this
team the fundamentals of the
game,” Levin said, “but the
most important lesson I want
them to carry is to conduct
themselves in a professional
manner both on and off the
court.”
Last season the Barristers
made it to the playoffs but
finished in the second round
after a defeat by Hamilton
High School. The school
plays in Division II and competes against schools such as
Franklin, Wilson and key rival Eagle Rock.
“We feel like we let one
slip away last year,” said 6’4”
center Abel Andrade, a senior
and co-captain of the team.
“This season we have a hunger
and drive that we didn’t have
before. We have developed
chemistry as a team. We know
we have each other’s back.”
According to 17-year-old
Diego Jimenez, a power forward and co-captain, selfless-
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ness is a huge part of their
game.
“I get just as much of a
thrill providing an assist as I
do when I score,” he said.
The Barristers have six
games left this season including their last game, Feb. 13th
at 7:30 p.m.
The team won’t officially
know until the end of the season if they made the playoffs.
But according to coach Levin,
the odds are pretty good.
Post season play begins
Feb 18th.
Marshall shooting guard David Garcia, 17, lays it up during a recent Barrister’s
game. Photo: Bridgette Webb.
FRANKLIN HILLS—Heart. It’s
the word used by members
of the Marshall High School
boy’s basketball varsity team
when describing their game.
The Barristers current record
is 14-5, with the team winning
their last seven games.
“We have a really good
shot of going to the playoffs
February 2015
and winning it all this year,”
said senior Daniel Garcia, 17,
who plays guard. “We have the
talent and now a new coach
with a new system that really
works for us.”
Garcia is speaking of new
head coach Jared Levin, a Pepperdine graduate who also
played varsity basketball in
High School
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[franklin avenue elementary]
Battle of the Books
By Shuli Wong, 5th grade, 5th Grade
Franklin Avenue Elementary’s 2nd Annual “Battle of the Books” last November was a friendly team and
individual trivia competition
were students competed to
share their knowledge of five
specific books.
The five books assigned
for this year’s game were
Hatchet, Tuck Everlasting,
Because of Winn-Dixie, The
Whipping Boy and From the
Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil
E. Frankweiler. The 36 players who competed were 3rd
through 5th graders and one
2nd grader.
The competition was separated into “team” and “individual” games.
For the Team game,
players were required to read
at least three out of the five
assigned books. The players
were separated into mixed
grade teams of five players
and one person was chosen
as the team expert for each
book.
For example, I was the
expert for Winn-Dixie on
my team. Each team’s expert
would face off to answer questions about character, setting,
plot and theme for their book
against the others. Five teams
competed and team “The Legends” won,
For the Individual game,
participants who read all five
books could choose to play,
which was a sudden death
game where players answered
questions about the books and
if you got the answer wrong,
you were eliminated.
To answer the questions,
players got a whiteboard and
marker and wrote the answers to the questions. Fifteen players competed in the
Individual Game and a 3rd
grader won.
[thomas starr king middle school]
King Looking Prettier All The Time
A chain link fence surrounding Thomas Starr King
Middle School will soon become a gallery for creative
types.
Organizers said they have
approached artists, such as
the Los Feliz based Shepard
Fairey, about creating art for
panels to hang on the school’s
exterior fencing.
“It’s a celebration of King
in the neighborhood,” said
organizer Paul Yi. “You’ll see
a tremendous impact on the
whole neighborhood.”
The Silver Lake Neighborhood Council (SLNC) helped
fund the project with a $2,500
grant.
Organizers said in total,
184 different works by artists
will eventually be exhibited
on vinyl banners, chalkboard
and painted artwork on other
media.
“This is a great urban art
project,” Yi said. “It’s kind of
a big scale [thing] for not a lot
of money.”
Other schools, such as
Franklin Avenue and Ivanhoe
elementary, have also taken on
similar projects.
The project is part of the
overall beautification effort
by the parent group “Friends
of King” to transform the
school.
Last year, King became a
full magnet school, and is “undergoing a positive academic,
social and cultural transformation,” according to the mural funding proposal submitted to the SLNC.
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“Girl Up” Club Helping Girls Globally
By Clothilde Domenghini, 8th grade
Girl Up Club is new at
our school this year. Our goal
is to educate, raise funds, advocate for, serve and show that
we care about girls in developing countries.
Girl Up is a non-profit
organization that the United
Nations Foundation created
in 2010. There are more than
500 such clubs in the world.
Girl Up helps girls in Malawi,
Ethiopia; Liberia and Guatemala to acquire better education, health, safety and leadership skills. We are trying
to make their dreams come
true, like our own dreams to
become lawyers, doctors and
teachers. Currently, the club
is raising funds for bicycles in
Malawi so the girls are able to
go to school.
The key members of our
club are: Founding Presi-
dent, Clothilde Domenghini
(8th grade); Vice President,
Sasha Staggs (8th grade);
Secretary, Talia Wizman
(6th grade) and Treasurer, Ming-An Fasquelle
(6thgrade). As a group, we shared
ideas that led to our first fundraiser at last November’s
school Thanksgiving feast. We
worked hard to make this our
big introduction to the entire
campus about our club.
That day there were many
volunteers—boys and girls—
who helped a lot. We sold hot
chocolate, coffee and pastries
and asked students, parents
and teachers to sign advocacy
cards for the Girls Count Act.
The day was very successful
for us.
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[mother of invention]
10 Reasons to Love the Library and
10 Things to Check Out Now
By Rita Mauceri, Ledger Columnist
I’ve always loved libraries. As a child, I spent hours
sequestered at my local
branch looking up books (via
card catalog), researching
school projects (via microfiche) and carefully curating
stacks of goodies to check
out and take home.
Times have changed and
today’s libraries are modernized and teched-out in ways I
never would have imagined. I
still love them, but as a mother
I find myself rediscovering—
and appreciating—libraries in
a whole new way.
My elementary aged kids
and I visit our local branch at
least twice a week. We spend
hours there without even
realizing it, drifting along
aisles of novels and getting
lost in the pages of almanacs
and atlases.
Libraries are an incredible
resource but, more than that,
they’re fun, imaginative places
for both adults and children
to hang out—unlike playgrounds, which I find boring,
sacrilegious, I know.
I take my laptop. My three
3rd graders take their homework. It’s relaxing, contained,
creative. The perfect family
outing. And, it’s free.
The free part is key. No
matter how good prices are
on Amazon, the library beats
them, hands down. And I love
that I can indulge my kids’
desire for new books without
going broke.
Of course, there are plenty
of other reasons to love the library. Here are my personal
top ten.
Cards Are Cool. For
children, getting a library
card is almost as exciting as
getting a credit card. They
love having their own personal piece of plastic enabling them to check out
books on their own. Plus,
keeping track of items and
due dates teaches them responsibility,
theoretically.
We still scramble to dig borrowed books out from under
beds and car seats.
Movie Magic. Sure,
there’s Netflix or AppleTV,
but movie rentals and purFebruary 2015
chases add up—especially
when you have a bunch of
kids like I do and they each
want to watch something different. The library has tons of
movies and television series
available gratis. We love to
check out documentaries as
well to add variety to family
movie night.
Librarians. When you’re
lucky enough to find a great
librarian, it’s such a treat. I’ve
spent tons of time chatting up
the librarians at my local Silver
Lake branch. They are amazing. If you want to know about
an author, locate hard-to-find
materials, get recommendations, or encourage your child
to seek out new material, this
is the person to talk to.
Real Research. These
days, children can study anything via the web, but doing
research at the library gives
them a better sense of the process. It’s more tactile and detailed than a Google search.
And for kids like my daughter
who are chronically undecided
about what animal/state/plant
they want to feature for their
next school project, libraries
offer plenty of inspirational
visuals.
Office on the Go. Library WiFi hookups are easy
(and again, free) so many
parents use it as a place to
work. For those who don’t
have quiet space at home (or
are trying to avoid a pile of
laundry), this is a perfect,
productive place to hibernate
for a few hours.
Reads for the Road. Before you head anywhere, load
up on travel books for yourself, along with reading materials to keep the kids occupied
en route. There’s nothing like
being trapped in the car with
bored youngsters!
Time Travel. My kids
adore history and, like many
parents, I wish they got more
of it in school. In the meantime, books help fill in the
gaps and feed your child’s
interest in everything from
World War II to Samurai warriors, Renaissance artists to
rock pioneers.
Artistic Endeavors. Be
sure to explore the wide range
of art books at your library, especially those that teach children how to draw. My 9-yearold son loves learning how to
sketch dragons, helicopters,
tanks and more, and there
seems to be a book teaching
how to illustrate just about everything.
Books for Cooks. Find
fresh inspiration and ideas for
dinner in the cookbook section. There’s a whole row filled
with picks to suit every taste
and type, so dig in.
Exciting Extras. The Los
Feliz and Silver Lake branches
offer a steady stream of community events and seasonal
specials from movie nights to
evenings where kids can read
aloud to therapy dogs (which
is pretty priceless).
To see Rita’s current list of
must-reads and must-sees
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[immaculate heart high school]
A Ringing Start to the Semester
By Ashley Conde ’17 and Katie Hughes ’17
With second semester
classes now under way, members of our junior class will
officially be recognized as
upper classwomen during
our cherished school tradition known as the “Ring
Ceremony.”
The upcoming formal
ceremony, which features a
Mass of celebration followed
by the ring presentation, is
Feb. 6.
Our school ring features
a unique design, which was
originally embraced by the
Sisters of the Immaculate
Heart of Mary, who founded the school in 1906. The
ring depicts a heart, pierced
by a sword and surrounded
by roses. The heart symbolizes Mary, the mother of Jesus, and also represents the
Immaculate Heart sisterhood and its values of great
heart and right conscience. The rings are initially
worn with the heart of Mary
pointed inward. Following
graduation, the students will
turn their rings around and
wear them with the heart
facing out toward the world.
Even long after students long
graduate, they continue to
wear their rings to show how
much Immaculate Heart still
means to them. We congratulate our juniors as they take
part in such an important
Immaculate Heart tradition.
Meanwhile, our sports
programs continue to do
well. League action for our
winter sports teams in soccer
and basketball are beginning
to wrap up while our spring
sports in softball, swimming
and diving and track and
field are officially gearing up
with tryouts and practice.
February will also see
students honoring Black History Month, as well as preparing for Ash Wednesday
and the start of the Lenten
season, which will culminate
with our Easter celebration
in April.
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[theater review]
Lend Me A Tenor–A LaughFilled Farce
By Marilyn Tower Oliver, Ledger Theatre Critic
Today’s news is often very
grim, so if you looking for an
antidote, an old fashioned romantic comedy might just be
the ticket.
Lend Me a Tenor, now on
stage at the Glendale Center
Theater, is full of silly gags,
double entendre, sexy women
and slapstick, guaranteed to
make even the most curmudgeonly of us laugh.
The comedy first appeared on London’s West
End and on Broadway where
it garnered nine Tony nominations and won for best actor and director.
Set in Cleveland in the
mid-1930s, the action takes
place in a two-room hotel
suite. The set provides the audience the ability to see what’s
happening in both rooms simultaneously.
As the play begins, Max,
who works for the Cleveland
Grand Opera Company, and
his bosses’ star struck daughter, Maggie, await the arrival
of the world famous tenor,
Tito Morelli.
Tito is scheduled to sing the
lead in Verdi’s opera “Othello”
that evening. Max has been assigned getting the singer to the
performance on time.
Maggie, who is Max’s
sometime girl friend, has a
crush on the opera singer who
soon arrives with his hot-tempered wife Maria.
When Maria discovers
Maggie hiding in a closet in
hopes of getting her husband’s
autograph, she becomes furious
and writes her husband a letter
ending their relationship.
When Tito discovers his
wife has left him, he becomes
very upset. Hoping to calm
him, Max gives him a tranquilizer not knowing the singer has already taken some.
Tito soon passes out and
cannot be roused. Max fears
he has died, but the show must
go on. Donning one of the
Tito’s costumes and wig, Max,
who happens to be an aspiring
singer, takes the singer’s place
as the lead.
Complications arise when
Tito awakens, puts on a second costume and wig and tries
to get into the theater. The result: mistaken identities and
scandalous antics filled with
mildly naughty banter.
This is a drama that requires great timing and quick
repartee and, in general, the
cast, directed by James Castle
Stevens, doesn’t disappoint.
Although there is quite
a bit of overacting, standout
performances are given by Michael Perl as the ever-patient
Max and John McCool Bowers as Tito.
The humor is very broad
and just on the edge of risqué,
which makes it a play suitable
for all ages.
“Lend Me a Tenor,”
through Feb. 7th, Thursday
through Saturday, 8 p.m; Sat-
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[stargazing]
Starry, Starry Nights for February
By Anthony Cook, Griffith Observatory
The
planet
Venus is the
brightest astronomical
object
after
the Sun and
Moon.
In
February, it shines brightly
above the west-southwest
horizon after sunset. Venus,
Mars and the slender crescent moon huddle close together on the 20th.
The planet Jupiter moves
from Leo the Lion to Cancer the Crab on the 4th. On
the night of the 6th it is at
what’s called “opposition”–
the point opposite the sun
in the sky from our point of
view. It rises at sunset and
reaches its highest point—72
degrees above the southern
horizon—at midnight and
sets at sunrise.
Binoculars, if held steadily, are powerful enough to
reveal Jupiter’s four largest
moons, the Galilean satellites,
discovered by Galileo in 1610.
A telescope is needed to see
the striped cloud belts and giant oval storms that cover the
planet. The full moon, this
month called the Full Snow
Moon, poses next to Jupiter
on the 3rd.
Golden planet Saturn,
with its beautiful ring system, is in Scorpius the Scorpion, and is low in the southern sky at dawn, above the
orange star Antares of Scorpius the Scorpion.
The innermost planet,
Mercury, is most visible about
30 minutes before sunrise,
between 5 and 10 degrees
above the east-southeast horizon. When gauging this kind
of distance looking into the
night sky, calculate 10 degrees
like this: it’s the distance equal
to the height of your clenched
fist when viewed from arm’s
length.
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[editorial]
The Best Choice for the Greek:
Nederlander/AEG
By Luke H. Klipp, Los Feliz Neighborhood Council
Don’t believe the hype
about how complicated the
city’s decision is for who will
run the Greek Theatre for the
next 10 to 20 years. It’s actually pretty simple. The only confusing thing is why the city is
prepared to award the contract
to the vendor that guarantees
much less rent and whose proposal includes some dubious
conditions.
If Live Nation is chosen
to operate the Greek, Los Angeles will lose out on at least
$17.5 million over the next
20 years. Think about that
for a moment: The only money that the city will ever get
from this contract—money
for our parks and recreation
programs—will be at least
$875,000 less every single year
over the next twenty years,
simply by selecting Live Nation over Nederlander/AEG.
$875,000 is no small chunk
of change, equaling about
2% that Recreation and Parks
collects every year outside of
city general fund dollars.
Additionally, the city’s
hired consulting firm’s scoring
of the two proposals weighted
improvements to the Greek
four times what it weighted
guaranteed rent.
While Live Nation has
promised to spend double on
venue improvements compared to Nederlander/AEG,
much of that is contingent
on the city awarding the full
20 years of the contract. If,
after 10 years, we are dissatisfied with Live Nation
and end the contract, we will
lose $15 million of Live Nation’s $40 million in promised improvements. What’s
more, Live Nation pads their
bottom-line dollar amount
with contingencies and operational expenses, and as a result, the city has given them
a much higher score.
Finally, Live Nation’s proposal includes a provision that
it can take money out of its
guaranteed rent minimum—
the only money the city will
ever get from this contract—
if anything goes wrong with
their venue improvements.
This is a provision that the city
explicitly barred in its request
for proposals but now appears
ready to accept.
Live
Nation
would
charge 10% more for its
tickets than would Nederlander/AEG and it would
give the city a smaller share
of its revenues. While Live
Nation is entitled to make a
healthy profit for operating
the Greek, the city is now
prepared to give control of
this significant resource over
to a vendor who has outright
promised to give less of its
profits to us, all while we
continue to see cuts in what
few parks and recreation programs remain.
Over 30,000 people
signed a petition asking the
city to back Nederlander/
AEG because we’ve seen how
they have worked with the
community. They are in this
to provide a quality product,
not just to make a hefty profit, and they have a proposal
that is worthy of this incredible venue. That is why the Los
Feliz Neighborhood Council
has voted unanimously to
support
Nederlander/AEG
and that is why I ask you to
write our local city councilmembers, Mitch O’Farrell
and Tom LaBonge urging
them to do the same.
Some Locals Going Underground
By Bruce Haring, Ledger Real Estate Reporter
While Los Angeles has
restrictions on adding square
footage to a home aboveground, the so-called “antimansionization” rules, you can
add as much underground—as
in basement—as your house’s
footprint will allow.
That’s caused several area
residents to literally jack up
their homes and start adding
that Southern California rarity—a fully finished basement.
William Hefner of Studio
William Hefner is a Wilshire
Boulevard-based
architect
who has worked on several
basement add-ons in the
Larchmont area.
“People want more space
and a more modern lifestyle,”
he said. Theater, entertainment and game rooms for
the kids are popular as well
as wine cellars and home
gyms “and it doesn’t count
toward the square footage
of mansionization,” he said.
“It’s a great way to stand out
without taking a toll on the
character or density of the
building.”
Adding a new basement is
not an inexpensive undertaking. Adding sub-ground space
starts at about $250,000, Hefner estimates, and can escalate, he said, depending on
how big and what level of finish desired.
“If you put in a fancy theatre,” below ground, Hefner
said, “you could spend a couple hundred thousand on the
sound system” alone.
Adding a basement to an
existing home requires lifting
the house on steel beams and
then stabilizing it. Contractors
then crank the house up for excavation and construction work.
Although volatile methane
gas can be an issue in the flatlands of Los Angeles, there are
vapor barriers that can block it.
“It’s not insurmountable,”
as an issue, Hefner said.
Hefner also pointed out
that many older homes often
need plumbing and electrical
upgrades. Disconnecting the
old apparatus and installing
new pipes and wires can be
accomplished while the basement is being installed.
“That’s part of why it’s
practical,” he said. “Land is
becoming more and more
valuable.”
[keen to be green]
Sowing Seeds of Hope
By Meher McArthur, Ledger Columnist
Each new year,
we resolve to
stop one behavior, to start another and generally do better.
These promises are like seeds
we sow planted in the hope that
we will grow into more healthy,
contented and loving beings.
Indeed, people are just like
plants. Some are hardier than
others. Some are positioned
better to receive more sunlight
and water. And while we all
are at the mercy of the weather
and other living creatures, if
well nurtured, we thrive.
If we are plants, our communities are gardens, a metaphor that is well understood by
Enrich LA, a non-profit that has
February 2015
been building gardens in Los
Angeles schools for five years.
“In areas where there is
a fast food restaurant on every corner, these gardens offer
children an alternative to these
unhealthy foods and encourage
them to make better choices,”
said founder Tomas O’Grady.
O’Grady, who is running
for Los Angeles City Council
District 4, said he sees gardens
as a catalyst for social change.
“Edible gardens have
the power to transform campuses and communities by
offering children in concretecovered neighborhoods access
to a beautiful outdoor green
space,” he said.
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with spectacular views. 3 downstairs bedrooms leads to the
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Beautifully restored & renovated 2+2 home with great curb
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Completely renovated California bungalow walking distance to
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& exterior paint & many upgraded systems too. The kitchen
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1919 Monon Street
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5060 Los Feliz Blvd
Silver Lake
Los Feliz
$1,350,000
Enjoy a great atrium with fountain and skylight as the central
focus in this 4+3 1922 Mediterranean home. Set back from the
street, it begins with a large front porch that opens into the
living room w/fireplace. Large formal dining and remodeled
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stainless appliances. Spacious yard with room for a pool. A
wondeful home for entertaining. We represented the buyers.
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This charming well cared 1938 built Traditional home has been
loved by the same owner for 40 years while keeping its original
character intact. 2+1 upstairs plus lower level (non-permitted
space) w/addt’l bedroom/bath & room for possible home office.
Hardwood floors. Approx 1054 sq ft + bonus space. Lot is 7494.
Set back from the street & up on a hill with a large backyard.
Room for a pool. Wonderful setting at the end of a cul-de-sac.
2369 Lyric Avenue
Spacious 3 bedroom 2.5 Contemporary home set high above the
hill to take advantage of the wondeful views. Beautifully
renovated Cook’s kitchen w/new shaker cabinets, granite tops
& all new stainless GE appliances. Kitchen opens to den with a
fireplace and leads to patio. Upstairs has 3 bedrooms plus a
large open family room. Master suite with private bath w/new
counter top. Parking for 3 cars. Great Los Feliz neighborhood.
Atwater
$775,000
You’ve found your home sweet home in this lovely 3+1 Atwater
home with picture perfect curb appeal. Great original details.
Spacious living room w/fireplace, dining rm w/wainscoting &
hardwood floors. Central AC. Beautifully landscaped backyard.
Apprx 1543 sq ft and the lot is 6750. A special home that’s
walking distance to all the splendor this great neighborhood
has to offer. Sold by our team member Dunia Handy.
2459 Hidalgo Avenue
Silver Lake Hills
$1,400,000
Silver Lake Hills fourplex with views on a lovely cul-de-sac in a
great residential neighborhood next door to a home that just
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addt’l studio apt. 4 covered parking spaces. Apprx 3968 sq ft +
studio. Close to many Silver Lake hot spots & downtown.