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INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Vol. 2, No. 10 • March 16, 2016
Uniting the Community with News, Features and Commentary
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Time for
Baseball!
By SUE PASCOE
Editor
N
ational Hockey League Hall of
Famer Luc Robitaille threw out
the first pitch for Pacific Palisades
Baseball Association’s opening day on Saturday at the Field of Dreams.
The L.A. Kings President of Business
Operations was introduced by PPBA Commissioner Bob Benton. Robitaille played 19
seasons in the NHL, including 14 with the
Kings. He is the highest scoring left wing in
NHL history and 12th overall in NHL goal
scoring with 668 goals.
“I was a pitcher and a shortstop, but we
didn’t have such cool uniforms,” Robitaille
told players. “Baseball is a great game to
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Pacific Palisades Baseball Association Commissioner Bob Benton welcomes players, coaches, parents and family to opening day
Photo: Bart Bartholomew
ceremonies on March 12 at the Palisades Recreation Center.
City’s DRB Action Comes Under Fire
By SUE PASCOE
Editor
L
.A. Deputy City Attorney Renee
Stadel came under fire last week for
recusing four members of the Pacific
Palisades Design Review Board from further discussion of Caruso Affiliated’s Palisades Village Project.
Stadel’s action on February 29 left the
seven-member DRB without a quorum and
forced cancellation of its March 2 meeting,
when it was scheduled to render its final
recommendations to the City Planning Department in regards to the Caruso project.
On March 9, attorney Timothy Reuben
of Reuben Raucher & Blum e-mailed a
letter to Stadel and other City officials on
behalf of three of the four recused DRB
members: chairperson Barbara Kohn, Kelly
Comras and Donna Vaccarino. The fourth
member was Stuart Muller.
In his letter, Reuben asserted his clients
were incorrectly and unfairly recused, that
Stadel had rendered her opinion without
speaking to the three members, and that the
information in his letter “should result in
a revision of your opinion and reinstatement of the DRB’s jurisdiction so that the
DRB will have an opportunity to provide
its expertise and advice with respect to
this most important project.”
After Stadel’s action, the News asked the
L.A. City Attorney’s Office for an explanation. Rob Wilcox, director of community
engagement, cited LAMC section 16.50.G:
“No design review board member shall discuss with anyone the merits of any matter
either pending or likely to be pending before the board other than during a duly
Egg-Stravaganza
Set for March 26
The annual spring Egg-Stravaganza will
be held at the Palisades Recreation Center
from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, March
26. The egg hunt will be held at noon for
toddlers to 12 year old. Please bring your
own basket.
There will be a moon bounce, arts and
crafts, face painting, marionettes, a puppet
show, a petting zoo and other entertainment.
Look for a special guest appearance by the
Easter Bunny. The cost is $10 per child.
Food trucks and other vendors will be
available during the event. Call (310) 4541412 or email: [email protected].
called meeting of the board or subcommittee of the board.”
Kohn, Comras and Muller, as members
of the Pacific Palisades Community Council, attended a meeting on February 25 at
which the agenda included a discussion and
intended vote on three motions regarding
the Caruso project: zoning, street vacation
and traffic.
According to attorney Reuben’s letter,
“. . . Both Ms. Kohn and Ms. Comras (as
well as Mr. Muller) informed the President
of the Council prior to the meeting that
they were recusing themselves and would
not be discussing or voting on the Carusorelated motions.”
Reuben also reminded Stadel, “Notably,
in prior correspondence, you specifically
advised our clients that they could attend
PPCC meetings so long as they recused
themselves with respect to the Caruso project, which they did.”
At the beginning of the meeting, as is allowed in PPCC by-laws, Historical Society
member Dick Wulliger asked for a postponement of a vote on the motions.
PPCC President Chris Spitz announced
that the Council would still hear from board
members and the public, which had packed
the Palisades Library community room.
Although the four DRB/PPCC members
did not discuss or express opinions at the Last year’s participants found gobs of eggs.
Photo: Shelby Pascoe
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play. Have fun this season and cherish the
friends you are making because they’ll stick
with you the rest of your life.”
To the parents he said, “Remember, it’s
just a game.”
Afterwards, L.A. Kings enthusiast Matty
Gottesman, 12, a Cardinal Bronco, asked
Robitaille about Kings left wing player Marian Gaborik, who was on the injured list.
“I want him to come back soon,” Matty
said.
“He’ll be back for the playoffs,” Robitaille said.
Coaches and volunteers were at the field
at 6 a.m. to see if the fields were playable after
the heavy Friday rain. A call from Benton to
Brian Sullivan, a former PPBA board member and the head grounds keeper for the Bel
Air Country Club, resulted in 40 lbs. of quick
dry, which was spread on the muddy fields.
Only one 9 a.m. game had to be postponed.
Also early to the park were pancake breakfast organizers Rene Rodman and Liz Denham. The Rec Center kitchen was entirely
covered in plastic so pancake batter could
be made. “We call it the Tony Soprano
room,” joked Matt Rodman, who was mixing 5-gallon sanitized buckets of batter with
a dry wall mixer.
In their rookie year of flipping pancakes
were Jeff Prestine, whose son Mateo was
playing with the Pinto Cardinals, and Mark
Ames, whose son Holden is also a Pinto.
The hardest thing? “Waking up early,” Ames
Mustang player Spencer Rodman caught
the first pitch from Luc Robitaille, the L.A.
Kings President of business operations
manager and NHL Hall of Fame player.
Philly Pinto player Jack Mitchell prepares to hit it out of the park with a perfect swing.
said, “And keeping up. We can’t make them
quick enough.”
Prestine, a bit of a pro, said “I have lots
of practice making banana and chocolate
chip pancakes at home.”
“Right now I’m on sausage duty,” said
Scott Denham, who had a grill full of links.
His son Alex is a Bronco Dodger. “PPBA is
designed to keep it fun, games are one of the
best weekly community events. It’s social for
the fans and the boys—many of whom go to
different schools—all get to know each other.”
Also enjoying the pancakes were umpires
Craig Outlaw (Little C), Jack Deluca, Jimmy
Prescott, Dirk Robinson and Emerson Grant.
Robinson, who is starting his 13th season
said, “This is like umpire heaven here. People are polite, they say thank you and they
have a knowledge of the game.”
“I don’t feel like I’m coming to work, I
feel like I’m coming home,” said Grant, who
is starting his 11th year. “There’s an atmosphere up here, you don’t find anywhere
else. He was drafted by the Angels in 1986.
“I played one week and blew my shoulder—a rotator cuff,” Grant said. “Now I just
umpire and coach.”
The National Anthem was sung by Palisades Elementary fifth grader Annabelle
Grandy, whose brother Teddy is a Red Sox
Fifth grade Palisades Elementary student Pinto.
Annabelle Grandy sang the National Anthem.
The top pancake breakfast ticket sellers
were Finn Sullivan (who will be a Pepperdine bat boy) and his brother Ian (private
training with Mitch Miller of Westside Baseball); Asher Moore (batting cage private
lesson with Baseball Central); Cole Miller
(UCLA Bat Boy); Ben Leshgold (glove courtesy of Steve Gambale, So. Ca. Rays); and
Brandon Gardner (Bentons Sport Shop
Gift Certificate).
“This is a nice slice of Americana and
definitely one of my favorite days of the
year,” said James Leitz, an assistant coach for
his son Joaquin, who is a Bronco this year.
Gabriella DeHaan, Blake Anna and Ian DeHaan look at the chocolate chip pancakes.
Photos: Bart Bartholomew
PALISADES BUSINESS NOTES
At the March 9 Design Review Board
Meeting, it was announced that Chipotle
would be going into the space currently
occupied by Panda Express in the Clock
Tower Building on Sunset Boulevard at
Monument. Union Bank will go into the
space next to it. The last day to order orange
chicken from Panda will be March 31.
at the DRB meeting were representatives
from Juicy Ladies, a café that specializes in
organic coffees, juices, smoothies, breakfast
items such as scrambles, oatmeal, breakfast
bowls and gluten-free waffles, and lunch
choices such as wraps/sandwiches, burgers
and salads. They also offer vegan fare. The
eatery will go into the existing First Federal
Bank Building on Sunset at CastellamAlso, discussing signage and landscaping mare Drive. The building has been vacant
for years. Juicy Ladies have similar cafés forcement coupled with the provision of
in Woodland Hills and Agoura.
services.” The PPTFH is short $50,000 in
Visit: juicyladies.com.
order to hire Ocean Park Community Center, based in Santa Monica for a second year.
The Pacific Palisades Task Force on So far, OPCC social workers have contacted
Homelessness reported on March 12 that 90 homeless people in Pacific Palisades.
they have raised $200 K: “We have reached The workers have transitioned eight people
another milestone, thanks to this commu- into interim housing. Four others have
nity and the support of residents who are housing applications with vouchers and six
seeing results with our strategy of better en- have housing plans in progress.
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Picnic Benches Placed on Temescal
D
Film Critic Turan
To Speak Here
Film critic Kenneth Turan will speak
about the movie industry and his book,
Not to Be Missed: Fifty-four Favorites from
a Lifetime of Film, on Thursday, April 7, at
6:30 p.m. in the Palisades Library community room. His free talk is hosted by
the Friends of the Library.
Turan, a longtime Palisadian, is a film
critic for the Los Angeles Times and NPR’s
Morning Edition, and director of the L.A.
Times Book Prizes. His latest book, Not to
Be Missed, now in paperback, will be
available for purchase and signing.
epartment of Recreation and Parks
Superintendent Cathie Santo Domingo came through with her
promise to add more picnic tables to Temescal Canyon Park, north of PCH.
On March 1, 13 new picnic tables were
installed on the 36-acre property that borders Temescal Canyon Road. Five were
placed under the pergola near the playground and three were placed near the food
trucks that service workers in the Palisades.
The remaining six were placed in different
spots along the canyon.
David Galvan, whose specialty is Mexican food, owns a food truck catering service. “I love it, this is great,” he said. “There
were picnic tables and then they were suddenly gone—for a long time.”
“My whole life, after going to the beach,
we’d sit down with a picnic, it was real nice,”
said Chris S., who grew up in Pacific Palisades and then joked, “I don’t have to sit
on rebar anymore.”
Initially under Proposition K, funds were
slated for Temescal Park in 2007 to the tune
of $250,000. In preparation, 53 picnic tables
and eight pergolas were removed. Nine years
later there were six tables and one pergola.
Neil Drucker, program manager for Prop.
K in the Bureau of Engineering, and Santo
Domingo helped explain what happened
to $250,000 in taxpayer money.
They told the News that $65,000 of that
City workers take a break from installing picnic tables in Temescal Canyon Park to
enjoy their lunch.
money went for permits, plans, staff and
other City costs, leaving $185,000 to be
spent on construction and materials. Just
under $126,750 was spent to build a pergola and to repair and reconstruct eroded
areas of the picnic grounds.
The remaining $58,250 was returned to
Prop. K general funds. The News learned
that the six picnic tables, which cost about
$3,500 apiece, had never been paid for by
Prop. K funding, but rather came from
funding from Rec and Parks.
On February 19, Santo Domingo emailed the News: “I just heard back from
our maintenance staff. We can install additional picnic tables.”
City workers used a forklift to lift the tables into position. Each table which
weighed between 2,300 to 2,500 pounds
apiece, depending on the size.
“It was overdue,” one of Galvan’s customers said. “But it was better when they
had the cover over the tables.”
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Mystery Writers Slated at ‘Food for Thought’
M
ystery writers Sheila Lowe, George
Fong, Connie De Marco (aka
Connie Archer) and Laurie Stevens will comprise a panel discussing crime,
life and fiction at the inaugural evening
Food for Thought at 7 p.m. on Tuesday,
March 22, in Janes Hall at the Palisades
Presbyterian Church.
Lowe, like her fictional character Claudia
Rose in the awardwinning forensic
handwriting mysteries series, is a
real-life forensic
handwriting expert who testifies
in court cases. She
is the author of
the acclaimed The
Complete Idiot’s
Guide to Handwriting Analysis,
Handwriting of the
Famous and Infamous and Handwriting Analyzer software.
She is also president of the American
Handwriting Analysis Foundation, a nonprofit organization that promotes education about handwriting.
Lowe, who has a master’s degree in psychology, lectures extensively. Her analyses
of celebrity handwritings can be seen in
various media, such as an L.A. Times arti-
cle discussing just what the signatures of the Dodgers and the Angels
players reveal about their personalities. Her most recent novel is
Inkslinger’s Ball.
Fong is ESPN’s Director of Global Security for the western United
States and the Pacific Rim. For 27
years, he was an FBI special agent
investigating violent crimes
that included kidnapping,
extortion, serial killings,
crimes against children,
bank robbery, drug trafficking, fugitives and Asian gangs.
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Laurie Stevens, a graduate of
UCLA Theater and Film School, is
a novelist, screenwriter and play-
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Heard
About Town
March 16, 2016
ANN CLEAVES
No Community Room
Initially, Caruso’s Palisades Village Project included a much-needed community
room, but in the last couple of weeks we
have learned that this space has been eliminated, along with the yoga space, to help
him meet his parking requirements.
What else is he going to eliminate between now and the start of construction?
(Editor’s note: A group of residents is
working closely with Caruso to make sure
certain conditions are agreed to in writing.
This reflects a January 2015 Los Angeles
Times story headlined, “In L.A., Conditions Placed on Developers Go Unheeded.”)
Woman’s Club Grants
I can’t fathom why representatives from
eight not-to-be-funded organizations were
invited to attend the March 1 Grant Awards
Night at the Woman’s Club to watch other
people trying to win money. It was already
known by the principal Woman’s Club
people exactly which 10 organizations
were chosen to receive grants. The groups
that weren’t going to get money should
not have had their hopes raised needlessly.
Remind Me to Vote No
If I read your story correctly [“Prop. K
and Temescal Park,” March 2, page 4], the
cost of one pergola and some grading in
Temescal Park was $191,750. I looked at
this pergola and there is a big eroded hole
under it. Next time there’s a proposition
on the ballot I’m voting against it. We sure
didn’t get our money’s worth on Prop. K.
(Editor’s note: Read our latest story about
this boondoggle on Page 4.)
Three Turn Lanes
Every morning during rush hour and
again in the afternoon when Pali High lets
out, people back up on Temescal Canyon
Road trying to turn left onto Pacific Coast
Highway. A few souls, on each green light,
make the left turn from the third lane,
which is designated as “straight” into the
beach parking lot. I used to curse them,
but then it occurred to me, Why not
change the sign and make that lane either
a turn left or a go straight? This would alleviate the long back-up on Temescal.
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VIEWPOINT
Local Owner Makes a Difference
By GREGORY SCHEM
I
support the Caruso Palisades Village Project.
Although I testified before the Pacific
Palisades Community Council last week
(February 18), the one minute I was given to
speak was insufficient to properly convey my
unique perspective on this development. I am a
longtime resident and real estate owner/investor
in the Palisades.
Back in 1995, I purchased the Palisades Village
Plaza (Sunset and Palisades Drive) from an
Atlanta-based life insurance company in
receivership. The property was about 50 percent
occupied and was physically a mess. As a local
owner, I knew what the community wanted
and what tenants were right for the community.
In short, I listened and did my best, subject
to certain economic limitations, to provide
the community a better retail center. I started
remediation of an environmental spill at the dry
cleaning store and helped the tenant install a
safer procedure for dealing with hazardous wastes
(PERC), just as is being done at the Caruso
Village Project. I installed better lighting and a
new paint scheme, eliminated the liquor store,
and added a dance studio and improved parking.
In 2001, I purchased the 881 Alma Real
building. Similarly, some of our improvements
included a voluntary full seismic retrofit ($1.5M),
new landscaping, signage, and an American flag
post. We also permitted the property to be used
for local nonprofit group meetings, the Boy Scouts,
as well as an election headquarters location.
What is also illustrative of local ownership
is what we did not do. We did not add a parking
kiosk as we understood the demand for free
local street parking, we did not install a
rooftop cell tower because we knew the community was opposed to it, and we did not kick
out legacy tenants endeared to the community just because they couldn’t pay the full
market rent (Fancy Feet Dance Studio and
Gerry Blanck Karate). Once the property was
sold (to a nonresident owner), most of the
things we did not do were done and the community was of course negatively impacted.
I make these points specifically because the
Caruso team is a local owner and has exhibited
all of the characteristics of an owner committed
to the community. They have spent countless
hours meeting with neighbors and have done
a spectacular job in conducting a through
outreach to just about anyone who has any
interest in the project.
I recognize and appreciate this work, as it sets
the foundation for the creation of a balanced
project which will dramatically improve the rundown and dilapidated heart of our downtown.
Further, in recognizing that anything we do in
life has a price, there very well may be additional
traffic and parking issues. But I feel strongly
that the price paid for not redeveloping this
area with the right team will be far, far greater
than the slight inconveniences suffered.
The approval process has dragged on long
enough and it’s time to get going with this vital
community improvement. We should be thankful
that we have such a sophisticated and committed
developer to make this happen.
Thought to Ponder
“To hurt another soul by
sarcastic words, looks or
suggestions is despicable.”
― Paramahansa
Yogananda, Indian guru
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(Editor’s note: Gregory Schem and his family
are long-time residents of Pacific Palisades and
were one of the key supporters of Movies in the
Park for years. He is the CEO of the Harbor
Real Estate Group in Marina Del Rey.)
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A forum for open discussion of community issues
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EDITORIAL
High School Days Revisited in Caruso Debate
I
n high school, if you don’t agree with the popular
crowd, you can be shunned. Then, sometimes it gets
worse; one is signaled out and vilified. And often, not
until after this person leaves high school does he or she
regain some sort of self-respect. Yes, we all agree we don’t
like bullies and we work hard with our kids to make sure
that behavior is not tolerated.
Unfortunately, that kind of behavior isn’t limited to
the teen years. The News has watched in dismay as Pacific
Palisades residents rail against one another in the public
debate about various aspects of the Caruso Village Project,
opening on Swarthmore and Sunset in late 2017.
This is especially true on the popular online forum,
NextDoor Palisades. For months, neighbors who want
the Caruso plans to sail through the public-hearing
process (“I wish we could start digging tomorrow!” said
one commentator) have been bashing residents who
appreciate what Caruso’s development will mean to
our business district, but who know that we should
never give a developer carte blanche.
In essence, these Caruso Can Do No Wrong defenders
are acting as bullies to people who have studied his plans,
attended meetings, met in person with Caruso and still
have legitimate concerns.
Taking it right back to high school, let’s examine the
Village Project as a geometry proof. It is a given that
Caruso brought the land and wants to develop it. People in town are in agreement that something had to be
done and Caruso is the best person for the project. Another given is that Caruso is a developer and he expects
to make money from this venture.
When proving or disproving something, one must ask
questions. For example, some people will be upset with the
Alphabet street neighbors when they ask Caruso about the
construction haul route, how much earth will be removed
when the parking lot is excavated, how many trucks will
be used and what impact will this have on the Village?
These are logical questions, and shouldn’t result in people
telling the neighbors to “stop worrying—the end result
will be great.” Instead, it would be nice for people to say,
“Thanks for asking—and what’s the answer, by the way?”
Or, what about the people who are asking why the City
is about to allow Caruso to take over a valuable slice of
public land between the Mobil station and the empty bank
building—specifically, the public park between Sunset and
the alley? Shouldn’t the town be compensated in some
way? Similarly, should Caruso be allowed to incorporate
a part of Sunset that currently serves as a wide right-turn
lane onto Swarthmore? Is there compensation?
Raising issues like this doesn’t mean people are against
Caruso’s development, or want to delay his schedule.
They simply want to see the City Planning Department
negotiate a better deal.
Other residents continue to have legitimate fears about
traffic flow in the Alphabet streets, not only when about
50 new stores and restaurants open, but if Caruso is
allowed to turn Swarthmore into a one-way street. What
about employees parking for free on neighborhood streets,
instead of paying a monthly fee in the new parking lot?
The Palisades Design Board took the right approach,
defending the town’s Specific Plan and asking Caruso’s
architects to come up more distinctive building designs.
Not surprisingly, board members took a lot of heat from
the bullies, and on February 29 four members were
improperly recused by the City Attorney’s Office. We
believe the DRB members should have their recusal
overturned, so that a final DRB meeting can be held
here before the Caruso hearings move downtown.
Our conclusion is, we can’t finish this geometry
proof because there are too many unknowns. We go
back to our given: that we support the Caruso project
and we want to see construction get underway this
summer, but first, everyone should support those who
are trying to get questions answered and who are negotiating a better outcome for the Palisades.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
community concern by a person or organization.
It is known that he [Caruso] has issues with the DRB
and could benefit if the four members are disqualified.
Misinterpretation of the Law
However, Caruso has the option as the applicant to waive
Having read your statement regarding the cancellation the alleged violation and consent to those four members
of the DRB meeting that was to consider the Caruso
hearing his application. I urge you to use your office to
Project, let me address your concerns about public input persuade him to do so.
and transparency, neither of which were compromised
Jack Allen
by the participation of the four members of the DRB
DRB Members Ousted Is Wrong
at the Community Council meeting. In fact just the
It’s unfortunate that the Palisades community was not
opposite occurred.
given the opportunity to participate in a Final Review of
The provision of the Municipal Code that the four
members allegedly violated (Section 16.50.G) was not the Caruso Project by the Design Review Board. The
intended to cover public meetings. The provision that Caruso project is very complicated and we only recently
prohibited DRB members from discussing with anyone received access to the 472-page MND with 6,000 pages of
the merits of an application before them was designed to appendix material.
We have many unanswered questions and expected this
prevent members from discussing such matters in private
or in secret without public knowledge of what was said. forum to help us get a better understanding of some of
the issues. In addition, the members of the DRB live in
That is not the case in this situation. The four DRB
this community and are personally affected by this
members are also members of the Community Counproject. Their expertise would have been invaluable in
cil. The discussions about what action the Council
making sure that this project is the best that it can be.
should take were at a well attended public meeting with
the applicant present. The actions being proposed by the This project will impact OUR community for decades to
come and we are entitled to every possible opportunity
Community Council were not in the purview of the
to participate in the process.
DRB. The actions of the members could not have been
If I understand the facts, it’s unfortunate that CD 11
more public and transparent.
Moreover, the four members did not participate in the Field Deputy Sharon Shapiro didn’t inform the three DRB
discussion and in fact, notified the President that they were members, who were at the February 25th Community
recusing themselves from participation on the matter. Council meeting, that by sitting at the board table they
were in violation of the Brown Act. To say they were in
Therefore, there was no violation of Section 15.60.G.
Nor was the attendance of the majority of the DRB a violation only after the fact, when any such violation
violation of the Brown Act, which makes an exception could have been easily avoided, is inexcusable. Further,
if CD 11 Councilmember Mike Bonin was involved in
for a majority of the Board to attend an open and
publicized meeting organized to address a topic of local an ex-parte conversation with a DRB member, he too
(The following two letters were sent to Councilman
Mike Bonin, and copied to the News.)
should have taken the opportunity to disengage, indicating
that any such conversation was in violation of city
rules or the Brown act.
At the PPCC meeting, the DRB members did not
participate in any discussion of the merits or in any
way act inappropriately. It is my understanding that
‘DISCUSSING’ of the merits is what is prohibited. Per the
city rules, “No design review board member shall discuss with
anyone the merits of any matter either pending or likely to
be pending before the board other than during a duly called
meeting of the board.” Inconsequential comments that
had nothing to do with the merits, a request to clarify a
statement, are considered violations? What about sitting
and listening? Are they too considered violations?
In my opinion, this should never have reached the
city attorney’s office. Nor should the community suffer
because these DRB members wanted to hear not from
some interested individuals in a back room, but from
the whole community in a public town hall forum.
Our community is now left to its own devices to get
answers to our unanswered questions and local expert
input on the provisions of this complicated plan. To
deny the community this opportunity to participate in
the process is unconscionable. If a Final Review DRB
meeting can be re-scheduled prior to the public hearing
on the 24th, the community would be very appreciative.
It would be the right thing to do.
Everyone wants to see a project done without unnecessary delay. To put the project on hold while the propriety of the ouster of the DRB is litigated is unnecessary.
Sandy Eddy
Send letters to [email protected]. Letters do not
necessarily reflect the viewpoint of the Palisades News.
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Raskin to Talk at
Atria About Sleep
Atria Senior Living, at 15441 Sunset Blvd.
(across from Gelson’s), offers its programs
free to Pacific Palisades residents. Seniors
do not have to live at the facility to take advantage of the programs, but please RSVP
to (310) 573-9545.
On Wednesday, March 23 at 3 p.m., Dr.
Damon Raskin will present a lecture on getting a better night’s sleep. He will explain
why sleep is so important to physical and
mental health. Raskin, a local internist, will
share natural ways to get a better night’s sleep
and the latest advances in medical options.
Entertainer Irby Gascon will perform
at 3:30 p.m. on Monday, March 28.
Last Chance to Apply
For Optimist Grant
Many native plants are now in full bloom in the N/E/X/T Garden on Temescal.
Temescal Garden Volunteers Needed
The N/E/X/T Garden (aka native plant
garden) in Temescal Canyon Park has volunteer opportunities to help with weeding,
trimming, leaf raking and cleanup under
the direction of local volunteers Michael
Terry and Barbara Marinacci.
On March 26, or the last Saturday of
every month, a volunteer workday is held
at the site (just south of Bowdoin), and
people/kids can participate any time between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.
This garden demonstrates how sustainably nurtured drought-tolerant plants from
California (and from similar climates around
the world) can not only beautify our home
gardens while reducing water usage but also
nurture wildlife by providing sustenance
and shelter while avoiding pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers and petrochemicals.
So far, the Temescal Garden has more
than 700 plant specimens representing over
100 plant varieties, so you can examine
many trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals
that might work in your garden.
The Pacific Palisades Optimist Club is
seeking applicants for its annual grant donations, which are given to youth organizations, schools and nonprofits based in Pacific
Palisades. The application must be received
no later than March 31. The Optimists earn
funds by working with the Palisades Ridge
Runners at the Palisades-Will Rogers 5/10K.
Send queries to grant committee chairman John Peterson or call (310) 454-9708
to receive an application and guidelines.
Applications are also available at the Chamber of Commerce at 15330 Antioch St.
March 16, 2016
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Palisades Symphony Celebrates
50th Anniversary with Concert
T
he Palisades Symphony, founded in
1966, will celebrate its Golden Anniversary on Sunday, March 20 at
7:30 p.m. in Mercer Hall at Palisades High
School. Admission is free.
Symphony founder Joel Lish will conduct a program that includes the Roman
Carnival Overture by Hector Berlioz, Symphony No. 4 by Johannes Brahms and the
Cello Concerto in B Minor by Antonin
Dvorak. Ronald Leonard will be the soloist.
Leonard, the former principal cellist of
the Los Angeles Philharmonic, has also per-
Cello soloist Ronald Leonard
formed with the Cleveland Orchestra and
the Rochester Philharmonic. He has played
under conductors including Andre Previn,
Carlo Maria Guilini, Esa Pekka Salonen,
Simon Rattle and Michael Tilson Thomas.
The cellist has taught at the Eastman
School of Music, the Thornton School of
Music at USC and is currently at the Colburn Conservatory.
The Palisades Symphony was founded by
Lish as an evening adult-school class at Palisades High and became incorporated as a
nonprofit in 1972.
Vahe Simonian to Talk at ‘Food for Thought’
P
alisades Presbyterian Church will
continue its “Food for Thought”
speaker series on Thursday, March
24 at 11:30 a.m. in Janes Hall, off El Medio
at Sunset.
Vahe Simonian, who served as the
church’s pastor from 1963 to 1970, will
speak on “Many Lives in One.”
Born in Boston, Simonian moved to Los
Angeles when he was 14. He graduated from
Pepperdine University in 1950 and attended Union Theological Seminary from 1951
to 1953, then spent a year at Princeton
Theological Seminary. He went to the New
College University of Edinburgh from 1955
to 1957. He studied at the Claremont School
of Theology (1966) and was a Merrill Fellow at Harvard from 1968 to 1969.
Simonian served as vice president of the
American University of Beirut, Lebanon
from 1983 to 1985, and was the senior vice
president of the California Museum of Science and Industry from 1991 to 1998.
In 1969, he was named Pacific Palisades
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After adult schools were discontinued,
the Symphony became an independent organization. It also adopted the BrentwoodPalisades Chorale, saving it from extinction
and providing it with rehearsal space, insurance, sheet music, an accompanist and
a choir director. The Chorale performs
twice a year.
Seven symphony concerts are offered annually and are free of charge. Most people
involved are volunteers, although a small
stipend goes to soloists, choir director, accompanists and the music director.
Supporters have suggested that on occasion of this Sunday’s big event, people donate $50, representing one dollar for every
year the orchestra has been in existence.
“I know that many people have already
donated and that others can ill afford it,”
said long-time Palisades Symphony president and manager Eva Holberg. “But if you
would like to participate, please send contributions to Palisades Symphony, P.O. Box
214, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272.
“Whether or not you donate, we’d love
to have you come and enjoy the music. It
will be a fine concert with our soloist, Mr.
Leonard.”
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DRB Action
meeting, the City Attorney’s Office told the
News: “The prohibition in section 16.50.G
applies to any discussion with anyone regarding the merits of any matter that is
before them, or will be before them at a
later date. A member who violates section
16.50.G is disqualified from taking an action and, therefore, cannot be counted toward a quorum of the board, as defined
in section 16.50.D 8.”
Former Beverly Hills City Attorney Jack
Allen disagreed with the interpretation and
in a March 6 letter to Councilman Mike
Bonin’s office wrote: “The provision of the
Municipal Code that the four members allegedly violated (Section 16.50.G) was not
intended to cover public meetings.
“The provision that prohibited DRB
members from discussing with anyone the
merits of an application before them was
designed to prevent members from discussing such matters in private or in secret
without public knowledge of what was said.
“That is not the case in this situation.
The four DRB members are also members
of the Community Council Board of Governors. The discussions about what action
the Community Council should take were
at a well-attended public meeting with representatives of the applicant present.
“The actions being proposed by the Community Council were not in the purview of
Discussing a project are DRB members (clockwise from bottom) Kelly Comras, Barbara
Kohn (chair), Donna Vaccarino, Paul Darrall, Stuart Muller and L.A. City Planner
Harden Carter. (Absent were David Hibbert and Sarah Griffin.) Photo: Bart Bartholomew
the DRB. The actions of the members could
not have been more public and transparent.
“Moreover, the four members did not
participate in the discussion and in fact, notified the President that they were recusing
themselves from participation on the matter. Therefore, there was no violation of Section 15.60.G prohibiting the members from
discussing the matter with anyone else.”
A
ddressing the purported violation of
Section 15.60.G, Reuben wrote in his
letter to Stadel: “None of our clients had
any discussion regarding ‘the merits’ of the
Caruso matter outside a DRB meeting . . .
Nothing said or done at the PPCC meeting
should have resulted in the forced recusal
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had also recused himself and did not participate in any discussion of the merits.”
Vaccarino was recused because of “ex
parte” communications with Bonin on January 6 at the Swarthmore farmers market.
“However,” Reuben wrote, “Ms. Vaccarino
said nothing regarding the merits of the
Caruso project. Indeed, if she had, presumably Bonin, who knows the rules and appointed Vaccarino, would have terminated
the conversation.”
The News had earlier queried Bonin’s office about his conversation with Vaccarino
and about the fact that a member of his
staff attended the February 25 meeting. The
News asked why, if Bonin or his staff suspected that the four DRB members were in
the wrong, was there no attempt to correct
the situation before it went to the City Attorney’s Office.
Bonin replied to the News in a March 7
email. “There is a fundamentally incorrect
assumption underlying the questions you
are asking and the rumors [from others]
you have been passing on [to me]. Both rely
on the premise that I made or prompted the
determination that members of the Design
Review Board needed to recuse themselves,
or on the assumption that I directed or
caused the cancellation of the DRB meeting.
On the contrary, the Office of the City Attorney advised on the need for recusals, and
advised the Department of City Planning
of the need to cancel the DRB meeting.”
In his letter, Reuben warned Stadel that
“should you fail to revoke your inaccurate
opinion and should the Department of
City Planning fail to cancel the hearing
scheduled March 24, 2016, and reinstate the
jurisdiction of the DRB, our clients will
need to consider all appropriate actions,
which may include the filing of a petition
of Writ of Mandamus and other appropriate remedies, including a Temporary Restraining Order blocking the review of the
Caruso project from moving forward until
the question of the DRB’s jurisdiction has
been resolved. We are hopeful that it does
not come to that and that you will allow
the DRB to do its job.”
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Woman’s Club Hands Out $16,000
T
he Pacific Palisades Woman’s Club
donated $16,000 to 10 nonprofit
groups at an event at the Clubhouse
on March 1.
“We were thrilled to be able to give out
$16,000 this year in cash grants,” said Woman’s Club grant co-chair Kirstin Sibson. “We
created this year’s grant format so we could
give away the grants in a way that brought
the community together and to learn more
about the organizations by offering them
an opportunity to share what they do with
the audience.”
Twenty-three groups applied for grants
with 18 of them qualified as communityoriented nonprofits. Those groups were
invited to the event and told to prepare a
three-minute presentation.
The five finalists chosen included the Palisades Enrichment Program (PEP) at Palisades
Elementary, Movies in the Park (MITP),
Palisades Americanism Parade Association
(PAPA), Ocean Park Community Center
(OPCC) for the Pacific Palisades Task Force
for Homelessness and Voice for the Animals.
Kristin Sibson (left) and Ona Barnett
were the co-chairs for the Woman’s Club
Grant Awards.
The five judges, including Bill Bruns,
Thomas Hathaway, Sam Lagana, Sharon
Shapiro and Michelle Villemaire, then judged
which group should be given the top award.
Ballots were passed out to audience members, who voted on their favorite group.
The Judges’ Award went to PAPA and
the Audience Award went to Voice for the
Animals. Runners-up were PEP, MITP and
OPCC.
Five additional groups, selected for “Acts
of Kindness” Awards, included Friends of
Marquez, Friends of Villa Aurora, Girls
Scouts of Greater Los Angeles, Meals on
Wheels West and Our House.
The remaining eight groups will receive
one free clubhouse usage for an event or
gathering. These included: Palisades Garden Club, California Poets in the Schools,
Canyon Charter School Booster Club,
Grief Haven, PRIDE Booster Club (Paul
Revere Middle School), Palisades High
School Booster Club and Palisades Chamber of Commerce.
The Woman’s Club raises money through
a Fashion Show, Home Tour and Holiday
Boutique and a Wine Tasting event.
Kristi Labrenz Galvan from Voice for the
Individual amounts given to different
Animals and April won the Audience Award. nonprofits were not made available to the
Photo: Bart Bartholomew press.
The Girl Scouts won an “Act of Kindness” Award from the Woman’s Club. Accepting were
(left to right) Lynn Mack-Costello, Tierney Smith, Gabriella Whalig, Lise Luttgens,
Claire Sibson and Darby Rastegar.
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March 16, 2016
Page 13
BID Committee Meeting Held
By SUE PASCOE
Editor
and BILL BRUNS
Palisades News Adviser
M
eeting for the third time since
becoming certified by the City,
the Pacific Palisades Business
Improvement District (BID) committee
announced an important step towards
maintaining tidy sidewalks and streets in
the Village business district.
Executive Director Laurie Sale said on
March 2 that the BID has signed a contract
with Chrysalis to expand the current streetcleaning program sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce.
The Chamber raises about $30,000 a year
in donations (mostly from residents plus a
$7,500 contribution from realtor Michael
Edlen) to hire one Chrysalis worker to
empty trash cans and clean gutters once a
week. Thanks to new funding from BID,
two additional workers will be added, allowing for an additional day of cleaning.
Meanwhile, the BID is examining two
different contracts for sidewalk power
washing and a decision will be made shortly. Also, a holiday decorating committee has
been formed and will focus on ideas for the
Fourth of July and the month of December
in the Village.
Chrysalis workers will wear the new BID
bibs while cleaning the streets.
Last year, 55 landlords in the Village
voted to pay an assessment (based on the
size of their property) in order to improve
maintenance in the business district and
help promote the business community. The
resulting BID was approved by the City
Council, and now all commercial property
owners within the Palisades BID district,
even if they did not vote for it, are assessed
through their property-tax bills.
The total budget for this year is $148,000,
which will be spent in three categories:
clean and beautiful; communication and
marketing; and management and city fees.
The multi-year effort to achieve a BID
was supported by donations from landlords
and business owners in the form of a loan
that would be paid back only if the BID was
ultimately created. Many of these contributors have forgiven their loans, but about
$8,000-$11,000 is still outstanding and will
need to be paid back from the budget.
Senior Lead Officer Michael Moore
spoke to the committee about crime in the
Palisades. He noted, “We’re still down in
crime this year (34 percent) from last year.
The biggest crime numbers are BTFV (burglary theft from vehicle) and burglaries.”
He said that many people who come to
hike in Temescal Canyon and Los Leones
Canyon park on the street and fail to make
sure that everything is hidden in their car.
Another BTFV problem is residents who
come home from work or shopping and
leave items in the car, while going into
their homes.
“We’ve tried to get the City to post signs
about car break-ins on Temescal Canyon
Road,” Moore said, but this has yet to happen. He also said he has reached out to
several homeowner associations, including those on Castellammare Mesa and El
Medio Bluffs, about putting cameras near
the entrances to their neighborhood. “This
is big on the list for detectives.”
Moore said that residents should call
the LAPD’s nonemergency number (310)
444-0702, if they see transients camping
and police will check it out. “We’d rather
take care of the problem sooner with daily
maintenance, then to let it buildup.”
The Palisades BID meets the first
Wednesday of every month at 8:30 a.m. at
UDO Real Estate, 15233 La Cruz Dr. The
group operates under the Brown Act and
residents are welcome to observe. Phone:
(424) 256-5733 or e-mail: [email protected].
BID members include Elliot Zorensky,
president (co-owner of UDO); Leland Ford,
Jr., vice president (property owner); Peter
Scolney, secretary/treasurer (representing
Palisades PRIDE); DeeDee West (representing TOPA); Shaun Malik (property owner);
Joyce Brunelle (representing the Chamber
of Commerce); Susan Carroll (owner of
Gift Garden Antiques); Rick Lemmo (representing Caruso Affiliated), and Lynn Borland (representing a property owner).
Seniors Deciding Where to Live
By MICHAEL EDLEN
Special to the Palisades News
(Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of articles in answer to requests for more
informational help with “downsizing” issues
for seniors.)
F
rom my experience in counseling
seniors, 75 percent do not want to
move at all. Many prefer to stay
where it is familiar, even though it may
become more difficult to manage. Others
do not want to pay the government any
more taxes than absolutely necessary, so
decide to stay where they are for as long
as possible. However, eventually most will
decide to relocate, or circumstances may
lead to that as a necessity.
In some cases the decision about where
to live next is an easy one, often because the
original motivation was to be closer to family members. For many, though, the location choice is almost as overwhelming as
the actual preparation to make the move.
Of course one viable option is to stay
near one’s current home, perhaps in the
same community. While some people prefer to move to a senior citizen community,
and others want to move closer to grandchildren, many just want to move to an
easier context such as a smaller single-story
home in the area they already have friends
and familiar environment.
If the decision is to move, it can become
much more efficient and highly suitable to
personal needs and values if the factors involved are considered one at a time. Some
examples that may aid in getting started
in this prioritizing are:
Proximity to major health facilities; near
relatives or friends; average temperature in
preferred range; high percentage of people
in similar age range; handicap accessibility;
proximity to theater and arts and symphony, gardens and green spaces; walkability; culturally and ethnically diverse or
homogeneous; weather either moderate or
with definite seasons; access to a variety of
shopping and quality restaurant options;
near an airport; high-energy or laid-back
feeling area, and so forth.
Once the highest-priority list has been
completed, the search for alternative loca-
tions becomes more focused, assuming
these seniors don’t now live where they will
want to next. Research into options can include asking friends, travel agents, or simply browsing online for ideas. This process
may yield several possible locations that
would meet most of the highest-ranked
preferences, and then in turn these locations can be ranked in order of preference.
At this point, it may be useful to write out
any questions about each location and
then seek out the answers.
Using online sources including local
chambers of commerce can be helpful. For
those who use social media, posting a
question and asking to talk to people who
live in the area can result in many contacts.
Once the list has been narrowed down to
a few locations that rank the highest, scheduling a trip to check each out is essential. It
may be worth taking a week or more to become fully familiar with the nuances of benefits and drawbacks of a particular locale.
Michael Edlen has counseled approximately 1,000 seniors for the past 30 years.
Call (310) 230-7373 or email [email protected]
Sketch by Kevin Nealon, who will be the
town’s new Honorary Mayor.
Chamber Installation
Dinner Set for Duke’s
The 67th annual Pacific Palisades Chamber of Commerce installation dinner will
be held on Thursday, March 24, at Duke’s
Restaurant in Malibu. The social hour is 6
p.m. and dinner and awards will start at 7
p.m. Cost is $85 and attire is Hawaiian.
Palisadian Sam Lagana will serve as the
emcee. The program will include the installation of Chamber President Adam Glazer,
who will begin his second one-year term,
and the Chamber’s board of directors.
Honorary Mayor Jake Steinfeld will step
down as the town’s 29th Honorary Mayor
and comedian Kevin Nealon will be inducted. Call (310) 459-7963.
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Transportation Options Available for Seniors
By SUE PASCOE
Editor
and ROSEMARY KELLY
Metro also offers a senior discount for
those who use the TAP card. Visit: taptogo.net. This card can also be used on
Metro buses and rail lines. A one-way trip
iving in Pacific Palisades, with its chal- for a senior (62+) is 75 cents during peak
lenging geography, is an increasing time and 35 cents off-peak and includes
challenge for seniors who can no long- transfers to other Metro lines.
er drive or who dread trying to navigate SunCCESS is a publicly subsidized service
set Boulevard and Pacific Coast Highway.
available for people who cannot ride
A newly formed group, Palisades Alliance for Seniors, held a meeting on March the bus or train because of disabilities. Fares
1 at Palisades High to inform seniors about are based on trip distance and the maximum for most trips is $3.50. To determine
various transportation options.
The group was formed by elderly and eligibility, an application and interview is
middle-aged residents alike, who regard the required. Call: (800) 827-0829 or visit:
Palisades as their retirement town. Their [email protected].
Cityride is a shared van ride, curb-towebsite states: “What we have in common
is that, once we discovered and settled curb Monday through Friday, 6 a.m. to 6
here, we found we loved it. We hope to con- p.m. The cost is $4 or $8, depending on
the service, and must be reserved the day
tinue to live in our beloved Palisades.”
At the meeting, transportation options before. This dial-a-ride is for Los Angeles
were provided by the Santa Monica Big residents 65+ or those with a disability. ReBlue Bus, ACCESS Services, L.A. City quires an application. Call: (310) 808-2273.
Uber and Lyft require a smart-phone
Cityride Program, Wise Connect, Luxe
Home Care, Uber, HopSkipDrive and L.A. app, which allows a driver to come directly
to the door and also pick up from locations.
Metro’s On the Move Riders Club.
The number 9 Big Blue Bus goes from Uber is in the process of starting a new senthe Palisades to Santa Monica seven days a ior service.
HopSkipDrive offers ride packages based
week, from 6:25 a.m. to 9:54 p.m., and there
are discounts for seniors 62 years and older
(50 cents). Additionally, a TAP card is sold
that seniors can use on the bus, as well as on
After a February in which there was
the Metro bus, allowing a seamless transfer
only one rainy day, Pacific Palisades
between the Big Blue Bus and Metro buses
received 1.70 inches of rain overnight
and the new Exposition Light Rail Line to
Saturday, March 5-6, and .40 inches
downtown Los Angeles, beginning May 20.
on March 7, according to our official
As part of the Exposition Line’s opening
County-certified rainmeister, Carol
promotion, the Santa Monica Bus comLeacock. The Monday storm was acpany will match the amount of fare added
companied by thunder and lighting at
to the TAP card (up to $100). Visit the Big
about 6 a.m., but quickly moved on.
Blue Bus Transit store at 1444 Fourth
Friday’s rapidly-moving storm proStreet. Contact: (310) 451-5444. The Little
duced .51 inches of rain, bringing the
Blue Card senior card is available at the
current year to date to 10.13 inches.
transit store. Once the card is issued, it can
Last year at this time it was 7.59 inches
be reloaded online or at many retail locaand normal year to date is 13.30 inches.
tions including Ralphs.
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on a ride of under five miles and 30 minutes in duration. One ride is $20 and a
package of 50 rides is $600 ($12 per ride).
Mileage over five miles is an additional dollar per mile. This service is available for kids
and seniors. Call (844) HOP-SKIP or visit:
hopskipdrive.com.
Luxe Home Care is a private transportation and caregiver service in Pacific Palisades.
The company offers wheelchair services and
ambulatory transportation services with
caregiver escorting and waiting options. Call:
(310) 454-5500 or visit: info @LuxeHC.com.
Wise Connect is a transportation service
within the WISE & Healthy Aging Club,
based in Santa Monica. This group is for
50+ and the transportation operates weekdays from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. One must pay
membership dues for transportation privileges. Requires 48-hour advance reservation. Call: (310) 394-9816 or visit: wiseandhealthyaging.org.
The next meeting to discuss transportation as well as other senior concerns is 3:30
p.m. on Wednesday, March 23, at Gilbert
Hall on the PaliHi campus. Check the Palisades Alliance for Seniors website, www.palisadesalliance.org) for details. Questions?
Email: [email protected] or
call (213) 494-8557.
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accept submissions from young
poets, rappers, leaders and activists ages 14
to 19 from L.A. County who are interested
in representing Los Angeles as the inaugural
Youth Poet Laureate.
A group of esteemed judges will chose 12
finalists, and then one teen will be named
L.A. Youth Poet Laureate at the Poet Laureate Commencement Performance on Sunday, June 28, at the L.A. Public Library’s
Marker Taper Auditorium.
Along with the prestigious title, the winning poet will conduct a library tour and also
win a book deal from Penmanship Books
and publish their first collection of poems.
The Poet Laureate and Poet Ambassadors
will have numerous opportunities and platforms to share their powerful voices, their
leadership, and love of Los Angeles at numerous events across the county for one
year. Urban Word L.A. and its many partners recognize that youth voices and community engagement are vital for empowering young people to effect positive changes
in their communities and beyond.
To apply, one must have a poetry portfolio, which should include three to five
poems. Topics strongly suggested and encouraged are: “civic and community engagement, activism, diversity and issues
that really matter to you.”
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One-Act Play
Set for Library
A one-act play, An Afternoon with Viktor
Frankl, will be presented at 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 26 at the Palisades Library
community room, 861 Alma Real. Admission is free.
The play, written by Cliff Johnson, centers on Frankl, the author of the book
Man’s Search
for Meaning.
Frankl spent
three years in a
Nazi concentration camp
during World
War II. After
his release, he
returned to his
psychiatric
practice in Vienna where he
continued to
develop his theories of existential analysis
and logotherapy.
“Between stimulus and response there is
a space,” Frankl wrote. “In that space is our
power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
Playing the psychiatrist is Arnold Weiss,
who has appeared in more than 150 plays
and 600 readings in California and New
York.
Mrs. Warren’s Profession to
Open at Pierson Playhouse
G
eorge Bernard Shaw’s play Mrs.
Warren’s Profession will run from
April 1 to May 8 at Pierson Playhouse, 941 Temescal Canyon Rd.
The play, written in 1893 and first performed in London in 1902, centers on the
relationship between Mrs Kitty Warren
and her daughter Vivie.
Vivie, an emancipated, intelligent and
self-sufficient woman who has just graduated from university, is astounded to learn
that her mother rose from poverty to riches
through prostitution.
The mother-daughter relationship changes once Vivie learns the truth about her
mother’s profession. She cuts herself off
from her mother and throws herself into
the life of an independent career woman.
The play explains why Mrs. Warren became
a prostitute and examines the limited employment opportunities available for
women in Victorian Britain.
This Theatre Palisades production is directed by Sabrina Lloyd, assisted by Josh
Harper and produced by Sherman Wayne
and Martha Hunter. Featured actors include Brooks Darnell (Frank Gardner), Sue
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After each performance, a panel of
homeless experts (including representatives from the Ocean Park Community Center and Chrysalis) will take
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Wine Tasting Held
At Woman’s Club
By SUE PASCOE
Editor
O
n the afternoon of the Oscars ceremony, dozens of Palisadians enjoyed
their own red carpet walk by attending the second annual wine-tasting fundraiser at the Pacific Palisades Woman’s Club.
Tameron Keyes, a Merrill Lynch financial
advisor and Woman’s Club member, organized the event.
“The Woman’s club hopes to make this
boutique wine-tasting an event that locals
really embrace, support and attend,” Keyes
said. “There are a lot of private wine cellars
in the Palisades. A local wine tasting that
supports the community makes sense.”
Chef Samer Elias of Sam’s by the Beach
was in the kitchen preparing lamb meatballs and Wagyu beef cheeseburgers served
on either pretzel or whole-wheat buns with
arugula and tomato. The food was pronounced “absolutely delicious,” by wine
tasters who tried them.
One of the participating wineries was
Silver Wines of Santa Barbara. Owner and
winemaker Benjamin Silver said he had
come to the event because of Elias, who features his wine at Sam’s in Santa Monica Can-
yon. Silver was pouring a 2010 pinot noir.
Doug Timewell, owner of Toucan Vineyards, was back for his second year, pouring
zinfandel and petit sirah.
“We have property in San Luis Obispo.
We farm three-and-a-half acres and produce five different wines,” said Timewell,
who was raised in the Palisades and attended Marquez, Paul Revere and Palisades High
School. “We don’t do this [making wine]
for the money, but for the passion.”
He showed an Imperial-sized bottle and
said, “This holds the equivalent of eight
bottles of wine.”
Also pouring was Donelan Family Wines,
represented by Joe, Nancy and Cushing, who
have been big supporters of the Woman’s
Club. The Donelan Winery is located in
Sonoma County and produces syrah, pinot
noir and chardonnay.
Caren Rideau was once again pouring
wine for Tierray Vino. “My partner has been
making wines from the Santa Ynez Valley
for 25 years,” she said, noting that they grow
Tempranillo grapes, which produce wines
that are ruby red in color. Aromas and flavors can include berries, plum, tobacco,
vanilla, leather and herb.
Cosimo Pizzulli, who has a hillside vine-
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Street and a winery in Camarillo, was also
offering wine samples.
Eight additional wineries donated eight
wines and wine-related items, such as winetasting dinners, to the silent auction. Keyes
said that most items were sold for well over
the listed value.
Larry Cohen and the Canyon Bistro pro-
vided just the right ambience on a nearly
perfect day as sun streamed through the
Club’s large bay windows. Cohen also
owns the Canyon Bistro in Topanga
Canyon that features a wine bar and live
music. “Well worth the drive,” Keyes said.
The money raised will go toward the
Woman’s Club’s philanthropic efforts and
its building fund. Visit: theppwc.org.
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‘No Impact’ Impacts Students
By LAURIE ROSENTHAL
Staff Writer
No Impact
Challenge
P
alisades High School science teacher
Steve Engelmann has a way of inspiring his students to care about
the planet.
In the fall, three enthusiastic seniors—
Grace Lee, Kate Chao and Ava Kristy—
were inspired to create a “No Impact Week”
challenge for their fellow Dolphins after
seeing the 2009 documentary, No Impact
Man, in Engelmann’s AP environmentalstudies class.
Even with little advertising, approximately 140 people signed up.
Colin Beavan’s No Impact Man has influenced people across the country—even
the world—to live a simpler lifestyle.
The main idea of the eight-day challenge
is to lessen one’s impact on the planet
through various means. Another goal is for
people to enjoy life more than stuff, and realize how consuming less benefits the earth.
According to noimpactproject.org, “the
No Impact Experiment is a one-week carbon cleanse.” The week begins on a Sunday
with “consumption,” and the idea is not
to buy anything. A new challenge is added
every day, so on day two, when the idea is
avoid creating trash, participants still have
to avoid shopping.
“Hopefully people try something new,
and see if there is anything they want to
stick with,” Grace Lee said.
Engelmann thought it was “a great idea,”
and praised his students for working hard
to organize the week. Looking forward to
the next challenge, he said that maybe
demonstrations could help inform the PaliHi student body as to what is involved, such
as “talking about how to have a low-impact
lunch, or a potluck.”
Day one was fairly easy for many. Being
trash-free proved to be more difficult.
“What surprised me was how much impact
I was having. That was a lot of trash I
made,” Kate Chao said.
“You have to carry all your trash in a bag,”
added Lee. “It’s a lot more than you think.”
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Day 3: Transportation
Avoid using your car, and try walking,
biking or using public transportation
instead.
Day 4: Food
Eat lower on the food chain, go to a
farmers market and try to eat locallygrown food.
Grace Lee, Kate Chao and Ava Kristy created a No Impact Week at Palisades High School.
Students in all grades participated in the
one-week challenge, including approximately 80 freshmen.
Though it may sound demanding, the
students adapted pretty well. “I was expecting it to be a lot harder,” Lee said. “It just
goes to show you don’t really need do that
much to be more environmentally friendly.”
Foregoing texting was problematic for
some. Chao said she received “weird messages. People think you’re ignoring them.”
By virtue of her vegetarianism, Ava Kristy
was ahead of the game for day four, as some
of that day’s suggested ideas are to give up
meat and buy food that is grown locally. “I
don’t believe in the ethics of eating meat,”
she said. Her choice gives her a lower carbon footprint than a carnivore.
When teacher Gregg Strouse heard
about the challenge, he gave the assignment
to two of his freshman urban ecology
classes, a total of about 70 students.
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experience quite thoroughly, although I
didn’t finish my own homework,” Strouse
said. “The ‘no new trash’ challenge was the
most difficult because it takes a lot of forward thinking and willpower to avoid creating new trash.”
His students were asked to write about
each day’s challenge before and after the
week, comparing and contrasting what
they thought they would do with what
they actually did.
“The kids were emotionally invested in
the project,” Strouse said. “One of the reflection questions was whether you could
continue these changes in the future, and
many of them expressed the plan to do so.
One student said he would stop littering on
the street, which was gratifying, because I
hate when people litter.”
The feedback from students was generally positive. “Overall, people didn’t have
too much trouble with the challenges, and
seemed keen to evaluate their personal impact on the environment more often,” Lee
said. She also mentioned that since some
seniors were applying to college during No
Impact Week, they couldn’t go completely
without electricity.
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Day 5: Energy
Reduce your use of electricity, and try
to avoid using appliances. Turn off
your computer and television.
Day 6: Water
Reduce your use of water everywhere,
including the kitchen and bathroom.
Day 7: Giving Back
Do some community service. Volunteer for a local organization.
Day 8: Eco-Sabbath
Try to spend the day off the grid,
avoid buying things and don’t answer
the phone, at least for part of the day.
The senior organizers were inspired
enough with the results to offer the week
once again, though as of press time the exact
dates were unknown. They hope to share
the results on April 22—Earth Day.
Reflecting on No Impact Week, Kristy
says, “I have definitely become more aware
of the resources I use in daily life. Things
like driving and using electricity now register with me as more than just part of normal life. I have come to understand that
modern conveniences come with a really
detrimental environmental impact.”
Chao shares that sentiment. “It brought
me awareness. I definitely took a lot of the
things home and kept doing them.”
Despite the challenges of going without,
Lee looks on the bright side.
“Colder showers are better for your skin
and health apparently.”
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PALISADES HIGH SCHOOL WINTER SPORTS WRAP-UP
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Basketball: Girls Win City Title Wrestling:
Qualify for State
T
he PaliHi hoopsters repeated as City
champions on March 5 at Cal State
Dominguez Hills, beating El Camino 65-44.
They then advanced to the first round of
the Southern California regional playoffs
against top-seeded Chaminade, losing 79-67.
The Eagles were ranked third nationally and
second in California, while eighth-seeded
Palisades was ranked 468 nationally and 57
in state.
Coach Torino Johnson, whose team faced
the number-one ranked team in the nation,
Mater Dei, in last year’s playoffs, tries to
prepare his players by playing a tough nonleague schedule.
A graduate of Manual Arts and USC
(2005), Johnson doesn’t back down. “I never schedule bad teams—there are no cream
puff games here,” he said. This year’s foes
included Mater Dei (ranked 64 in the nation and 15 in California) and St. Mary’s
(ranked first in the state and nation).
The City created an open division for
girls basketball in 2014-15 in order to allow
the best teams to play more competitive
games. Torino has now led the Dolphins to
four titles in six years, two in the open division and two in Division II.
To reach the regional playoffs, the thirdranked Dolphins first defeated Carson, 81-53.
Senior Kayla Merrill-Gillett, who stands 5-9,
had 26 points, two assists and nine rebounds.
Next, Pali crushed Legacy, 79-39, as Merrill-Gillett led the scoring with 18, followed
by Chelsey Gipson with 17 and Chaniya
Girls practice in pre-season.
Pickett with 13. During the regular season
Legacy beat Pali 65-62.
The final against El Camino Real was another cakewalk for the Dolphins. Up by two
after one quarter, 14 to 12, they outscored
ECR 18-0 in the second quarter and went
on to win, 65-44.
Merrill-Gillett had 23 points, Gipson
15, Liz Newman 10, Sammy Spanier 10,
Kayla Williams 4 and Caytlnn Gorden 3.
Johnson, who works as a special aide at
PaliHi, emphasizes discipline and fun
with his program and works with players
year round.
During the season, varsity players practice Monday through Saturday. He also insists on the girls keeping their grades high.
Photo: Luis F. Pazos (Cadet3Studios.com)
“The kids are dedicated student-athletes
who sacrifice weekends,” said Johnson, who
was selected as one of four high school
coaches from across the nation to assist in
the 2015 USA Basketball Women’s U16 National Team Trials at Colorado Springs.
Boys Upset in Quarterfinals
Palisades High’s boys basketball team
was seeded sixth in the City Section Division I playoffs and hosted 11th-seeded San
Pedro in the first round. After a 62-45 win,
the Dolphins played Western League foe
Hamilton (seeded third), and fell 60-56.
Coached by Donzell Hayes, Pali had
only three seniors and finished the season
12-17 overall and 5-7 in league.
Four PaliHi wrestlers qualified for State
in the City championships: Jake Adler
(145-pound), Kevin Rosen (152-pound),
Marcelo Maya (160-pound) and Hamzah
Alsaudi (195-pound).
They journeyed to Bakersfield on March
5-6, but although Maya and Adler each won
a match, none of the wrestlers advanced to
the second day of competition.
Earlier, at the sectional meet, the Dolphins
(coached by Steve Cifonelli) scored three
individual wins. Adler defeated San Fernando’s Adrian Lorera and Rosen, a senior,
defeated El Camino Real’s Derric Goldbeck.
Maya, who lost to Matt Porter of Carson
in the championship bout, was declared
the winner by injury default. Alsaudi overcame Alonso Alvarez in a triple overtime
to take the title.
Pali’s Kaila Osorio (189-pounds) was
the girls’ runner-up in City, improving on
last year’s fifth-place finish. This year the
Dolphins’ boys team placed fourth behind
El Camino Real, Birmingham and San
Fernando.
Randy Aguirre started the wrestling program at PaliHi in 2011. That first year he
lacked mats and practice space while working with novice wrestlers. Four years later,
Aguirre died of brain cancer before he could
see the first three Pali wrestlers go to state:
seniors David Rheingold (115 pounds),
Brad Boorstein (170 pounds) and Kenny
Jones (heavyweight). Assistant coach Aldo
Juliano finished the year.
Soccer: Boys Win School’s
First City Championship
C
oached by David Suarez, the PaliHi
boys won the City championship
against Granada Hills, 2-1, on
March 5 in overtime. This is the first time
in the school’s 55-year history that either
a boys or girls soccer team has captured
the title.
According to longtime Pali teacher and
coach John Lissauer, the girls have gone to
the finals four times. This was the boys’
second trip.
They began their Division I title quest by
defeating Taft, 4-0. Angel Gomez had two
goals and Luis Lemus and Isaac Payne each
scored once. Shayan Safa and Chad Johnson provided the assists.
Next, the third-seeded Dolphins faced
Bell and won, 1-0, on a goal by freshman
midfielder Gabriel Palomares.
The semifinals game against Sylmar on
March 1 was a nail-biter. Pali’s Chad Johnson scored in the first half and the teams
were tied 1-1 at the end of regulation play.
They then played two 10-minute overtimes,
followed by two 5-minute sudden-death
periods without a goal. This led to penalty
kicks, and Juan Pablo Marquez finally put
the ball past the Sylmar goal keeper in the
eighth round of the shootout, ending the
match, 6-5.
In the championship game at Valley College, Granada Hills was making its first trip
to the finals. Palisades forward Angel Gomez
scored early in the first half, and again Pali
went into overtime, tied 1-1. The teams Sammy Darvish goes up for a header for Palisades, who made it to the Regional playoffs
(Continued on Page 19) for the first time in the school’s history.
Photo: Kiana Toosi
March 16, 2016
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Borland Qualifies for Boston Marathon
By LYNN BORLAND
H
aving held its race since 1897,
Boston has become the center of
the universe for marathoning. Just
to gain entry into the race, you must complete a prior marathon within a set time.
When my Palisades Ridge Runner friends
and I first ran Boston in 1981, the qualifying time for 40-year-olds was 2:50, and with
a lot of training we were able to meet the
goal. I retired from marathons a few years
ago after completing 50, but with my 75th
birthday falling just four days after the 2017
Boston race, I couldn’t resist setting my
sights on qualifying for that race at this
year’s Los Angeles Marathon.
Fortunately, in deference to my seniorhood status, the qualifying time for 2017
has been set at 4:25—finally a benefit to old
age! As the Valentine’s Day race approached,
Palisadians Rebecca Martin, Romney Resney, Eleanor Keare, Troy Elander, Phil Feder,
Susan Spira, Deborah Hafford, Brian Temple and Ron Graham volunteered as a support team to assist me. Eleanor and her
husband Brian hosted the all-essential carbohydrate-loading party the night before
the race and Romney designed the “Team
Borland” T-shirts to help us keep track of
each other on the 26-mile route from
Lynn Borland qualified for April’s Boston Marathon by running the Los Angeles Marathon
in 4:17. He finished fifth in the 70 to 74 age bracket.
Dodger Stadium to Ocean Avenue in
Santa Monica.
Rebecca and Romney drew the short
straws and were the designated pacers as-
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signed to complete the full distance with
me. Being young and strong, a 4:25 time for
them is no more than a stroll on the beach.
The other team members were positioned
at two strategic points along the route and
joined in with more fresh legs. All of us, bedecked in dazzling purple and gold T-shirts,
couldn’t be missed along the route.
On race day, 33 streets were closed off as
21,565 runners set out (and 20,610 finished).
Church attendance suffers on this day but it’s
a literal Moveable Feast of sights and sounds
that raises money for hundreds of charities.
There were 50 bands, over 400 high school
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and middle school cheerleaders and 90
fenced off “cheer zones” jam-packed with
volunteers rooting for their team’s runners.
Lined up along both sides of the course,
hundreds of thousands of spectators,
often standing 10-deep, cheered on family
and friends.
Much to the delight of us runners, the dire
weather forecast of a hot day didn’t prove
out. It was actually cold for the predawn start
and conditions were quite comfortable during the tough stretches. Mother Nature was
smiling on us as we passed mile 23 along
San Vicente and up ahead we could see fog
rolling in from the ocean. As you get this
deep into a long distance race, cooling air is
obviously a huge psychological lift.
Thanks to the help from my Team Borland friends, I bettered the Boston qualifying standard with a time of 4:17, finishing
fifth in the 70–74 age bracket and in the top
20 percent overall.
Our next race on the circuit will be the
Palisades-Will Rogers 5K/10K on the Fourth
of July. I will be working as a volunteer for
that one, but I’m sure that several members
of Team Borland will be mounting the victory stand as winners of their age bracket.
Then our sights will be set on Boston next
April 17!
(Editor’s note: Borland was part of the Ridge
Runners that goes back to 1978. The only remaining members who still regularly run are
Jon Varat and Borland. They run on Monday,
Wednesday, Friday and Saturday and take
yoga with the “retired” runners on Tuesday
and Thursday at Corpus Christi. He says the
group would start at El Medio and pick up
runners along the way until they reached Will
Rogers Park. They would run up to the polo
grounds and continue on the trail to Inspiration Point and return to Pacific Palisades.
Norden and Paulina Vinolas each one.
The Dolphins, coached by Christian
Chambers, then faced the fifth-seeded San
Pedro in the quarterfinals at home. They lost
were in the second 10-minute period, when 1-0 when Samantha Martinez scored the
midfielder Nima Bahri scored and the Dol- only goal in the eighth minute for San Pedro.
phins could finally celebrate.
Palisades advanced to the CIF Southern Water Polo: Girls Lose in City Semis
The fourth-seeded PaliHi girls water
California regional tournament against
Santa Barbara, but lost 3-1. Chad Johnson polo team defeated 10th-seeded San Pedro,
scored the Dolphins’ only goal on a penalty 12-5, in the City quarterfinals on February
17. Jackie Au had eight goals at the game at
kick in the second half.
The Dolphins ended the season 19-3-2. Maggie Gilbert Aquatic Center.
The Dolphins, who had gone to the finals
Santa Barbara lost to Cathedral Catholic
(San Diego), which played Loyola in the four times since the program’s inception in
title game on March 12. Loyola won 2-0 2011, then faced third-seeded Birmingham.
Granada Hills was seeded number 3 in Pali was favored, but the Patriots went out
Division II, and advanced to the finals. fast and left the Dolphins to scramble. Although Au, Genesis Carballo and Lilly
They lost to South (Bakersfield) 1-0.
Ramos each scored two goals and Sammy
Girls Ousted in Quarterfinals Stahl one, the final score was 13-7. Pali,
Pali’s girls soccer team was seeded fourth under Coach Courtney McElrath, ended
in the City Division 1 playoffs with a record the season 13-3 and 8-0 in league.
of 12-2-2. They thumped Garfield, 9-0, as
Birmingham went on to capture the City
Ashley Conte scored three goals, Erin Ross title in overtime against four-time chamtwo, Haydn Peffer one, and freshmen F. Van pion Eagle Rock.
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The Gene that Skipped a Generation:
Family Artists Exhibit at Library
By LIBBY MOTIKA
Palisades News Contributor
G
randparents and grandchildren
often have a bond that ventures beyond the parental realm and becomes an enduring lifelong friendship.
Oprah credits her beloved Hattie Mae
Lee, with whom she lived until was 6 and
who taught her to read at 3, with giving her
the foundation for success.
Carol Burnett points to her “Nanny” as
the one who nourished her love for acting.
In the late 1930s, when Carol moved to
Hollywood to live with her grandma, the
pair often see up to eight films a week,
which Carol would reenact at home.
It may not be quite the Hollywood story
with Palisadians Claire Travis and her granddaughter Audrey King, but theirs is a kinship that goes beyond family ties. Claire
came to live with her daughter Jena while
Claire and her husband were closing their
summer camp in Marin County. In fact,
Claire and Jack lived in Pacific Palisades with
Jena and her husband Michael for a decade.
“There is something special about sleeping with a child from three months old,”
Claire muses. With three children of her own
Look Deeply into My Eyes, by Audrey King
and experience running a summer camp
and teaching school, Claire clearly loves children and embraced the granny role excitedly.
“Children and grandchildren are a special part of life,” she says. “It’s fleeting; they
grow up before you know it.” Claire has
three children and six grandchildren.
“I took Audrey to ballet classes, to the
pediatrician, helped set up for shows in
Tuition-free Pastel Painting
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An ongoing tuition-free pastel painting and drawing class is being offered
Tuesdays from 12:30 to 2:45 p.m. at Malibu Bluffs Park, at the intersection of
PCH and Malibu Canyon Road (across the street from Pepperdine University).
The class, offered through Santa Monica College/Emeritus College and
Malibu Parks and Recreation, is open to artists of any level. It includes indoor
and outdoor sessions, pastel demonstrations, individual attention and friendly
constructive critiques.
To register, visit: 2.smc.edu/schedules/2016/spring/emeritus/classes/161artsandcrafts.html. The class is listed in the catalog as ART E15 Drawing, Section
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the backyard and took classes with her at
the Brentwood Art Center,” Claire says.
It was inevitable that Claire would introduce art projects to all her grandchildren,
and Audrey took to it eagerly. Now that
Audrey is a senior at Harvard Westlake and
poised to go off to college, the pair decided
to host a joint art exhibition on March 19,
1-5 at the Palisades Branch Library community room.
While self-taught, Audrey is exploring
a range of media at school, including photography and digital technology. A number
of pieces in the exhibition reflect a study of
her own identity. In her self-portrait Look
Deeply into My Eyes, a complexity of emotions is conveyed in vibrant acrylic washes
across her face. The photo Butt Wait exposes the ravages of a bad sunburn, from
behind. It’s as if she is wearing pink tights.
An active and adventuresome artist,
Claire is inspired by the world around her—
nature, magazine photos, people she finds
intriguing and politics. In Half and Half,
she portrays President Obama, one side of
his face white, the other black.
Her painting Surma I, inspired by a photograph of an Ethiopian member of a tribe
known to paint their bodies white for some
occasions. Claire painted only the silhouette and applied the body art with her fingers dipped in paint.
The bond between grandmother and
granddaughter goes beyond their art. Audrey shares Claire’s sensitivity and love for
children, having worked for the past three
summers at The Painted Turtle with kids,
7-16, with serious medical conditions.
Claire and her late husband Jack met while
working with children in recreational settings and later directed Forest Farms
Camps for 10 years.
“Audrey’s mom, Jena King, does not
paint, although she collects art and has
great taste,” Claire says. “Audrey came up
with the gene that skipped a generation.”
Understanding the treasure of children
Surma I, by Claire Felson Travis
and grandchildren, Claire says simply: “I’ve
never been rich with money but with family. It’s gratifying to think I may have instilled something of importance in my kids
and grandkids.”
The Art Show and reception is for one
day only, March 19, 1 to 5 p.m. at the Palisades Branch Library, 861 Alma Real.
Lovejoy to Speak
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Dave Lovejoy will be the guest speaker at
the Pacific Palisades Art Association’s next
meeting at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 22
at the Woman’s Club, 901 Haverford Ave.
Guests are welcome, but there is a $5 fee.
Lovejoy’s topic will be artwork made
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Costume designers Jacqueline West and Paco Delgado (center), nominated for Oscars for their work on The Revenant and The Danish Girl, respectively, attended opening night
of FIDM’s exhibition on February 6. West created historically-accurate costumes for the semibiographical western film, The Revenant (left). Delgado was inspired by the canals
in Copenhagen in creating these iridescent gowns for The Danish Girl (right).
Oscar Costumes Showcased at FIDM
By DANIELLE GILLESPIE
Palisades News Contributor
Photos by Peter Gillespie-Hallinan
T
he Oscar parties may be over, but
Angelenos still have the opportunity
to view the Academy Award-nominated costumes at the Fashion Institute
of Design and Merchandising (FIDM) in
downtown Los Angeles until April 30.
As part of its annual “Art of Motion Picture Costume Design Exhibition,” FIDM’s
Museum and Galleries is showcasing winner Jenny Beavan’s costumes from the
movie Mad Max: Fury Road, along with
work by the three other Oscar nominees:
Sandy Powell for Carol and Cinderella, Paco
Delgado for The Danish Girl, and Jacque-
Costume designer Jenny Beavans won this
year’s Academy Award for her work on
Mad Max: Fury Road, which can now be
viewed at FIDM for free until April 30.
line West for The Revenant.
In all, the exhibit features more than
100 costumes from 23 films released this
past year. The 10 museum staff members
selected which movies would be included,
and they even predicted which designers
would be nominated.
“The Academy announces the nominations so close to the exhibit’s opening that we
can’t wait for the results, but we’re usually
right,” said Kevin Jones, museum curator.
Rental studios, producers and actors donate the costumes, which are then returned
and are often later sold or repurposed for
other productions. Only costumes from
iconic movies such as Star Wars: Episode
VII—The Force Awakens (which is featured
in the exhibit) are typically preserved.
“If we were asked to recreate this exact
exhibit a year from now, it could not be
done,” Jones said.
Beavan, who won an Oscar for A Room
with a View in 1985, having been nominated eight times, says she enjoyed working
on Mad Max: Fury Road because it took her
out of her comfort zone.
“I’ve done a lot of period movies, but the
appeal of doing something post-apocalyptic is really stretching the brain in a different
way,” Beavan said in a FIDM press release.
The movie takes place in the future in a
desert wasteland after a nuclear holocaust.
“It’s elevated fantasy, but still grounded in
a weird reality, and I loved the freedom of
creating vibrantly abnormal things,” Beavan said.
For instance, Furiosa (Charlize Theron)
lost her left arm, so she wears a mechanical
one crafted from salvage materials by Australian artist Matt Boug. The arm features
a small motor from a toy airplane, crank-
shafts and parts of car engines.
Delgado, a two-time Oscar nominee,
told the Palisades News that for The Danish
Girl, he did extensive research on Denmark
and painters Einar Wegener (better known
as Lili Elbe) and Gerda Wegener, who inspired the movie.
Set in the mid-1920s in Copenhagen, the
film follows the lives of husband and wife,
Einar (Eddie Redmayne) and Gerda (Alicia
Vikander), as Einar makes the emotional
and physical transition into a woman
named Lili.
“The first thing I did was look at the pictures of Lili and Gerda, of their paintings, of
their surroundings, and of people in Denmark during that period,” Delgado said,
adding that he then traveled to Copenhagen
so he could acquire a sense of place.
“The two dresses which Lili and Gerda
wore to the artists’ ball originated from the
reflections of the houses in Copenhagen’s
canals,” he said, gesturing at the gowns on
display at FIDM. “The dresses are iridescent
like the water.”
Delgado found that one of the most
challenging aspects of the project was making actor Redmayne look feminine. He
could not simply replicate the dresses Lili
wore in real life because Redmayne had a
different physique.
“We were much more worried about
making Eddie beautiful than to copy the
reality,” Delgado said. “I found out that I
could not show his shoulders because they
were too broad and very angular.”
Cinderella’s ballroom gown, featuring 270 yards of fabric, 10,000 Swarovski crystals
and three miles of hem, is on display at FIDM. Costume designer Sandy Powell was
Oscar-nominated for her work on the 2015 movie.
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Like Delgado, West also worked on a
semi-biographical film, so she too had to
do a lot of research. Real-life frontiersman
and fur trapper Hugh Glass is the inspiration behind The Revenant.
The story, which takes place in 1823 in
the Louisiana Purchase Territory, is about
how Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) struggles
to return home to his family after surviving
a bear attack.
West, a third-time Oscar nominee, told
the News that she replicated what the reallife trappers and the Arikara Native Americans wore, but she also made each character’s
attire representative of his personality.
Chief Elk Dog’s (Duane Howard) costume was taken from drawings of an Arikara chief; however, West took creative
license and added a wolf head to the back.
“Wolves are great trackers, and it’s symbolic
because he was tracking Glass,” she said.
West used the tip of a real elk horn as a
clasp for Glass’ coat to show how his character uses all parts of the animals that he
kills. “He does not see animals as trophies,
but for utilitarian purposes,” West said.
At one point in the movie, she cloaked
Glass in a bearskin. “It was the poetic piece,”
she explained. “The thing that almost kills
him is what saves him.”
Powell, who was nominated for Cinderella and Carol, has won the Academy Award
three times and has been nominated 12
times.
Her most notable piece in the movie
Cinderella is the gown she designed for the
Costumes from Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens are among the 100 costumes from 23 feature films on display at FIDM.
prince’s ball. Powell wanted the gown, displayed at FIDM, to stand out yet be simple.
“Cinderella (Lily James) wins the prince’s
heart through her honesty and goodness,
so I wanted to portray that in her clothes,”
Powell said in a FIDM press release. For
this reason, she did not have her wear jewels
or a tiara.
To make the gown, Powell layered blue
fabric to create a watercolor effect. The
gown features more than 270 yards of fabric, 10,000 Swarovski crystals and three
miles of hem.
For Carol, Powell took a more naturalistic approach. The romantic drama is about
an aspiring female photographer, Therese
(Rooney Mara) who falls in love with a
married woman, Carol (Cate Blanchett).
“I wanted Carol to be fashionable, but
understated—somebody a character like
Therese would look up to and be impressed
by as well,” Powell said.
FIDM’s exhibit is free and visiting hours
are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m.
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The Art of Re-Gifting: Curse of Historians
By BOB VICKREY
A
s a newly married young man in my
twenties, I belatedly discovered the
pleasure of reading, and began my
life-long love affair with books.
I had taken a job with a book publishing
firm, which immediately led to a growing
book collection in our small Houston
apartment. The initial experience of receiving complimentary books from my publishing house was thrilling for both my wife
and me, as we buried ourselves in our favorite new novel each evening.
We found ourselves living out the old
adage: “So many books; so little time.” That
first year, we were making great progress in
reading just about everything that arrived
at our front door.
That is—until the day one of our friends
dropped by with a house-warming gift,
which would ultimately haunt our lives for
many years in the future.
Our friend’s generous and well-meaning
gift was a complete 11-volume set of Will
and Ariel Durant’s landmark series, The Story
of Civilization—all 381⁄2 pounds worth.
Each of the volumes was heavy enough
to be used as a dependable door stop. And
to be honest, I never liked the notion of
taking on the daunting task of reading a
book so thick it could be used as an anchor for an ocean cruise ship.
My teachers in grade school had often
commented about my short attention span
in their classrooms. In fact, in later years,
I was probably the only reader in America
who complained about the length of Margaret Mitchell’s classic, Gone with the Wind.
I questioned why it took Mitchell 1,000plus pages to finally arrive at Rhett Butler’s
last line, “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a
damn.” Most of us had reached that conclusion several hundred pages earlier.
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rant series of popular history books, when
lined up on the bookshelf, they take up
roughly the same linear space as a 1953
Oldsmobile 4-door sedan, and weigh approximately the same as, well—a 1953 Oldsmobile 4-door sedan. As an experienced
owner, I recommend storing them on one
of your lower shelves (both the books and/
or the automobile), but even then, I advocate keeping small children at a safe distance from their formidable peril.
A
lthough initially intimidated by the
gross tonnage of my friend’s gift, I rationalized that one day I would push on
through each dense volume and educate
myself about the world I lived in. Just imagine the accumulated guilt as each of us tiptoed by their intimidating presence for all
those years. Decades later, those books remained pristine and unopened on my
bookshelves despite the many house moves
I had made since my marriage.
Guilt has always been the driving force
in cleaning out a home library. Nothing will
help you clear the shelves faster than when
a visitor in your home asks the innocent
question, “Have you read all these?”
After my wife and I divorced, we didn’t
as much disagree about how we would split
the inventory of our book collection, but
instead, argued vehemently about which
one of us would be forced to keep the Durant collection. I lost the argument.
In the aftermath of the 1994 Northridge
earthquake, I read about the bookseller in
Long Beach who had become trapped
when the shelves in his store collapsed on
top of him.
I didn’t need to ask which books fell on
him. I already imagined that he had likely
been trapped by the weighty volumes of The
Age of Voltaire and Rousseau and Revolution.
He lay on the floor so long before someone
finally rescued him that I’m guessing he
now knows more about Voltaire than most
college history professors. I think the bookseller had become what we refer to as “a
captive audience.”
Several years ago, my longtime friend
Chris was visiting my home, and spotted
the sagging bookshelves in my makeshift
library. She blurted out, “Oh, my goodness,
you have the Durant history series that I’ve
always wanted to read!”
Almost before she could complete her
sentence, I asked “Where is your car parked?”
She looked at me quizzically until I explained
my intention of giving her the whole set—
with door-to-door delivery included. Before she discovered that my gift represented
much more than kindness and generosity, I
grabbed a box and began packing the books.
As Chris thanked me profusely and
drove away from the house, I waited until
her car was out of sight before running
back up my driveway and doing my firstever cartwheels.
It occurred to me that The Story of Civilization could well become the literary
equivalent of the “holiday fruitcake”—
which has famously been the most re-gifted
present since Voltaire was wearing knickers.
I haven’t talked with my friend in awhile,
so I’m always curious if she still has the
collection on her shelves, or like me, found
some innocent bystander to foist them
upon. If she was indeed successful in finding
that unsuspecting friend, I’m betting that
she quietly whispered, “Okay, you’re it.”
Bob Vickrey is a longtime Palisadian. He
writes for several Southwestern newspapers
including the Houston Chronicle, and is a
member of the Board of Contributors for
the Waco Tribune-Herald.
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f you knew this was the last day of
your life, how would you live it?” The
question was posed by Bernard Otis to
members of the Palisades Rotary Club at
their February 4 meeting at Aldersgate.
Otis, who has written How to Prepare for
Old Age (Without Taking the Fun Out of It),
suggested that he would help someone, do
something he really wanted to do and then
go home to the arms of someone who
loved him.
Sage advice from an 85-year-old man
who grew up in Detroit and studied law at
the University of Michigan, but “I didn’t like
it and quit,” he said. For the next 65 years
he worked as a food, beverage and laundry
facility planner and consultant, including
21 years in Las Vegas.
“My clients were the gangsters of the
world; I knew them all,” Otis said. “The
celebrities of the world were my friends; I
knew them all.”
One night at 3 a.m., Otis got a call from
Frank Sinatra, who was in Palm Springs.
“He told me that he was flying a group of
friends, including his mother, to Las Vegas
and that they would arrive at
Caesars Palace at 6 a.m.,” Otis
recalled. “He asked me to
arrange to have a caviar breakfast served in the Bacchanal
Room. I asked him why he
had called me instead of Stu
Allman [Caesars’ food and
beverage director], and Frank
replied, ‘Because you are the
only one in Las Vegas who
knows how to get things done.’”
In 1982, a fire at the MGM Hotel killed
82 people. Otis was called in to help in the
morgue. “I had to call and explain to children who were back East that their parents
had died,” he said it was an experience that
left a deep impression on him.
He wrote this book last year, after the
death of his second wife Anna, whom he
calls the love of his life and to whom the
book is dedicated.
How to Prepare for Old Age is written for
all ages in mind. As Otis says, “Despite the
looks, the jokes, the questions, the pity . . .
I was young once, too.”
He calls aging “The Journey of Life” and
urges all readers, “Be open to new ideas instead of being stubborn. Learn from your
mistakes. Share the wisdom of your wins.
Remain an individual and contribute in
ways only you can. Take reasonable risks.
Listen more than you speak, and don’t
preach—you’ll only alienate those you are
trying to teach.”
The book is structured into chapters that
he calls Senior Moments, but in reality the
majority of the book is common sense—
Bernard Otis
as if a wise uncle had time to sit and speak
with you.
Just as when a family learns that they are
going to have a new baby—they purchase
a crib, car seat, clothing, toys and books, and
make some minimal financial planning for
the care of the child—Otis argues we should
make the same plans for the end of life.
In his book, Otis has checklists that a person should complete: 1.) home and personal
issues; for example, is there a
list of doctors, their numbers,
and your prescriptions, insurance plans? 2.) Where do you
keep money, jewelry and other valuable items and who has
the list? and 3.) In case of
home maintenance problems, do you have the names and numbers of vendors?
Otis then lists insurance and caregiver
questions to answer. He intersperses jokes in
most chapters that are laugh-out-loud funny.
Urging people to forget petty family differences, Otis said: “Divided families need
to look at themselves as the picture on a
cover of a puzzle box and learn how to reassemble the pieces so that they are there
for each other in times of need.”
The book is available on Amazon and
at Barnes & Noble.
Free Knitting Class
Offered at Library
A learn-how-to-knit class will be
held weekly from 3 to 5 p.m. on Fridays in the Palisades Library community room, 861 Alma Real Dr.
The class is for all ages—seven and
older. Bring wooden or bamboo U.S.
size 7 or 8 needles. Wool will be supplied to get the knitter started.
DINING WITH GRACE
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MAISON GIRAUD
1032 Swarthmore Ave., Pacific Palisades • (310) 459-7561
Dinner at Maison Giraud is a
French treat, starting with the décor
which makes you feel like a visitor to
Provence, and ending with the tasty
French food and delicious French
wines.
To whet your appetite, a small plate of
crisp pieces of bread with a tasty pesto
and cream cheese is served as you are
seated. Then, while you study the menu
and hear the specialties of the day from
your waiter, you can sip a glass of wine.
The appetizer list includes a soup, an
octet of salads and a cheese plate. The
salads each sound compelling, including the artichoke
with celery, mache and apple salad in a hazelnut-truffle
dressing ($14), the crab and citrus salad in a citrus-tarragonvinaigrette ($18) and the Maison Giraud flat tart ($16).
My daughter, Erin, and I decided to share the seared
scallops “Signature Dish” ($17). The scallops were absolutely scrumptious and delicious with a small centerpiece of a leek fondue, crispy fried leeks and pistachio
sauce. A perfect way to start.
The entrees feature seafood, risotto, chicken, rack of
lamb, steak and specialty dishes by Chef Alain, who told
me that the menu changes frequently to make use of
seasonal seafood and other current fruits and vegetables.
Entrees range in price from $26 to $38. Sides such as
Farmers Market Vegetables or sautéed broccolini are $7.
While I selected the mushroom risotto
($24), my daughter opted for the wild
local black cod ($30). The risotto was
spectacular, featuring a delicious combination of Arborio rice with seasonal
mushrooms, a truffle cream and
parmesan tuile. In fact, this was the best
risotto I have ever had.
Erin’s pan-roasted black cod was
beautifully served in a circle of tasty
mashed potatoes and sautéed mushrooms,
all with a porcini sauce. It too was
delicious.
And, of course, do not forget dessert.
We were asked if we would like a chocolate soufflé ($15),
because there is a 22-minute preparation time. We, of
course, could not refuse, and were glad when it arrived
with its Crème Chantilly and Creme Anglaise. Other
popular desserts are the apple tarte tatin (a traditional
upside-down caramelized apple tart at $9), and the
homemade sorbets and ice cream ($8). For those who
enjoy cheese and condiments with their last glass of wine,
there’s a cheese plate with dry fruit and nut bread ($15).
Maison Giraud is closed on Mondays, but serves lunch
from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. weekdays, and weekend
brunch from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
We Palisadians are indeed fortunate to have such a
fine restaurant here in the middle of our village!
— GRACE HINEY
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A spring golf camp for ages 7 to 17 is available Monday through Friday from March 21 through April 8, at
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Youth can attend full day (9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.) or half
day (9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. or 1 to 4 p.m.). The camp is led
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