Pound Puppies Find Homes Thanks To Bow Wow BH Scarpetta

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Rose Parade Float Meeting, Nov. 15
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Rose Parade
Float Update
Nov. 15
A
community
briefing and sign-up
meeting will be held
Nov. 15 from 5:306:30 p.m. at The Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Committee
members will unveil
the float design, brief
the community on
the event including
float decorating and
seek sign-ups for
sponsors and participants.
Parking will be
provided.
The
Check
Courier
and
www.bhcourier.com
for more details in
coming days.
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Reacts To
Chamber BID
Scarpetta Opens Its Doors
At Montage With Soiree
By Amanda Peabody
Welcome to Beverly Hills,
Scarpetta.
Monday, Montage Beverly
Hills opened the doors to New
York transplant Executive Chef
Scott Conant’s hit restaurant
Scarpetta.
The seasonally-inspired
Italian dining destination,
named cleverly for the shape
bread takes as it soaks up a dish
(scarpetta means “little shoe” in
Italian), hosted 400 guests including Montage Beverly Hills
General Manager Hermann Elger, Frank McCourt, Molly
Sims, Sam Nazarian, The
Courier’s Candace and Clif
Smith, Robert Shapiro and
many more.
But a restaurant is only as
great as its food, and the food at
Scarpetta promises to deliver.
On the menu was a buffet of
Scarpetta classics such as
spaghetti with tomato and
basil, spelt pasta with porcini,
pumpkin and truffles, oysters
with mint and lime, cuttlefish,
onion agrodolce and roasted
squash with warm spices and
goat cheese.
The third location for Conant (New York City boasts the
31
SEASONAL ITALIAN CUISINE—
Executive Chef Scott Conant debuted his third Scarpetta location
at Montage Beverly Hills, Oct. 28.
High-power residents and stars
were treated to a tasting of select
menu items.
Photos by John Shearer
State Mid-Term Election
Results: Who Won, Lost
By Adam Popescu
With the midterm elections
behind us, here is a look at how
Beverly Hills voted. Roughly a
third of the City of 33,000 voted, with 10,279 ballots cast out
of a pool of 23,392 registered
voters.
For governor, 4,388 voted
for Meg Whitman, with 5,491
voting for eventual winner Jerry
Brown.
United States Senator Barbara Boxer edged out Carly Fiorina, 5,629 votes to 4,077.
Thirtieth congressional dis-
Web Update
(see ‘SCARPETTA,’ page 26)
DRESSING UP
FOR
CHARIT Y — T o r i
Spelling
and
Dean McDermott, with daughter Stella and
son Liam, attended the 17th
annual Dream
Halloween party
benefiting
the
non-profit Children
Afflicted
with AIDS Foundation at Barker
Hangar.
Photo
by
Celebrity Photo/Gilbert Flores
trict representative Henry Waxman kept his seat with the City
supporting him with a majority
5,941 votes to C.E. Wilkerson's
3,494 votes.
Lieutenant Governor went
to former San Francisco Mayor
Gavin Newsome, who received
5,441 votes to Abel Maldonado's 3,507 votes.
While the winner for Attorney General is still not finalized,
the City supported Steve Cooley
with 4,802 votes to Kamala Harris' 4,217 votes.
(see ‘ELECTION,’ page 26)
NOVEMBER 5, 2010
By Adam Popescu
A Chamber of Commerce
proposal to implement a “Business Improvement District” tax
was discussed at Thursday’s City
Council meeting.
The proposal outlines a new
monetary structure, but failed to
disclose new services.
The Chamber claim these
funds will help them achieve fiscal self-sufficiency through the
establishment of a tax loosely
veiled as a membership cost.
The Chamber's current annual minimum membership fee
ranges from $400 to over
$5,000, with over 650 member
businesses. The BID purports to
promote businesses, their interests, needs and issues, according
(see ‘BID,’ page 26)
Former Superintendents To
Testify Against The District
By Amanda Peabody
With trial expected to begin
next month, attorneys for Strategic Concepts, LLC are gathering
the depositions of key witnesses
in the case against the Beverly
Hills Unified School District.
Scheduled as witnesses for
the plaintiff Strategic Concepts
and its CEO Karen Christiansen
are several former high-ranking
BHUSD employees, including
two former superintendents.
“The surprising thing about
this case is that in most cases
there are two sides and questions
about who to believe because
they are diametrically opposed
to each other,” said Co-Counsel
for Christiansen, Philip Kaufler;
Christiansen is also represented
by Los Angeles-based attorney
Hillel Chodos. “But almost all
witnesses are former high-ranking school district officials. I am
talking about two superintendents–Jeffrey Hubbard and Kerry
McVeigh.”
Both Hubbard and McVeigh
were superintendents during the
(see ‘TRIAL,’ page 21)
Pound Puppies Find Homes
Thanks To Bow Wow BH
Nearly two dozen stores on
By Brenton Garen
Two Rodeo
From an
and Rodeo
overcrowded
pound
in
Drive disSouth Central
played costo luxurious
t u m e d
canines
homes
in
available
Beverly Hills that’s
the
for adopAmerican
tion in shop
dream 18 dogs
fronts such
scored
last
as Tiffany &
weekend as
Co, Porsche
part of the NCIS Actress Pauley Perrette, Tiffany Design and
Bow
Wow & Co.’s Lindsey Witt and Teri Austin J u d i t h
Beverly Hills adoption drive.
(see ‘BOW WOW,’ page 21)
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NOVEMBER 5, 2010
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the City of
Beverly Hills, at its regular meeting to be held on Tuesday,
November 16, 2010, at 7:00 p.m., in the Council Chambers of the
City Hall, 455 N. Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills, California, will
hold a public hearing to consider adoption of:
A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BEVERLY
HILLS AMENDING THE COMPREHENSIVE SCHEDULE OF
TAXES, FEES & CHARGES TO ADJUST THE PARKING CITATION
CHARGES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2010/2011.
The proposed resolution will amend the Comprehensive Schedule
of Taxes, Fees & Charges to adjust the parking citation charges as
detailed in Resolution No. 09-R-12665. Generally speaking, the
increases are intended to offset fees imposed by the State, and to
achieve parity with citation charges in adjacent jurisdictions.
At the public hearing, the City Council will hear and consider all
objections or protests to the rate adjustments. If the City Council
adopts the resolution, adjustments to the parking citation charges
will become effective immediately.
Copies of the proposed resolution are available for review or purchase in the Office of the City Clerk, Room 290, 455 N. Rexford
Drive, Beverly Hills, California. Any interested person may attend
the meeting and be heard. Written comments may also be submitted and should be addressed to the City Clerk, 455 N. Rexford
Drive, Beverly Hills, California 90210. The comments should be
received prior to the hearing date.
Please remember, if you challenge the Council’s action in regard to
this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues
you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this
notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City, either at
or prior to the public hearing.
BYRON POPE, CMC, City Clerk
NOTICE OF
COMMISSION VACANCY:
DESIGN REVIEW COMMISSION
The Beverly Hills City Council is seeking qualified candidates to
fill one (1) licensed residential architect position on the Design
Review Commission. The initial term of office is for two years. At
the discretion of the City Council, the Commissioner may be reappointed to a second term of four years. The appointee will be
required to file an initial and an annual “Statement of Economic
Interests” financial disclosure.
In order that we may preserve the integrity of the application and
interview process, please direct all inquiries to the City Clerk, City
Manager or the Director of Community Development. Please DO
NOT contact the City Councilmembers or the members of the
Design Review Commission regarding the Design Review
Commission vacancies.
Application forms for the Design Review Commission, along with
a description of the duties of a Commissioner, and filing details are
available for pickup in the City Clerk’s Office, Room 290, 455 N.
Rexford Drive, or call 310.285.2400 to receive an application and
information by mail or by e-mail.
The deadline for filing applications for this Commission vacancy is
Friday, November 19, 2010 at 5:00 p.m.
BEVERLY HILLS • BEL AIR • HOLMBY HILLS
PUBLIC NOTICE
NOTICE OF PROPOSED
ADOPTION OF AN ORDINANCE
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on November 16, 2010 at 7:00
p.m. or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard, in the
Council Chambers of the City Hall, 455 N. Rexford Drive,
Beverly Hills, California 90210; the City Council of the City of
Beverly Hills will consider adopting an Ordinance entitled:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS AMENDING
THE UNIFORM ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, 1997 EDITION,
AND ADOPTING BY REFERENCE THE 2010 CALIFORNIA
BUILDING CODE; 2010 CALIFORNIA RESIDENTIAL CODE;
2010 CALIFORNIA ELECTRICAL CODE; 2010 CALIFORNIA
MECHANICAL CODE; 2010 CALIFORNIA PLUMBING CODE;
2009 UNIFORM SWIMMING POOL, SPA AND HOT TUB
CODE; 2010 CALIFORNIA ENERGY CODE; 2010 CALIFORNIA
FIRE CODE; 2010 CALIFORNIA GREEN BUILDING STANDARDS
CODE; 2010 CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL BUILDING CODE;
2010 CALIFORNIA EXISTING BUILDING CODE; 2010
CALIFORNIA REFERENCE STANDARDS CODE; 2009
INTERNATIONAL PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE; AND
THE 2010 BEVERLY HILLS PHOTOVOLTAIC INSTALLATION
GUIDELINES; INCLUDING CERTAIN AMENDMENTS,
ADDITIONS, AND DELETIONS; AND AMENDING PORTIONS
OF TITLE 9 OF THE BEVERLY HILLS MUNICIPAL CODE
Summary of Ordinance
The ordinance amends the City’s Administrative Code and
adopts by reference the 2010 edition of the California
Building, Mechanical, Plumbing, Electrical, Energy,
Residential, Green Building Standards, Historical Building,
Existing Building, Reference Standards, and Fire Codes (collectively known as the California Building Standards Code, 24
C.C.R., Parts 2 through 12), as well as the latest editions of
the International Property Maintenance Code, Uniform
Swimming Pool, Spa and Hot Tub Code, and Beverly Hills
Photovoltaic Installation Guidelines, together with certain
amendments, deletions and additions.
The California Building Standards Code, as amended, establishes
requirements for the structural, plumbing, electrical and mechanical systems of buildings and structures, including historic buildings and buildings not meeting current seismic standards, and for
fire and life safety, energy conservation and sustainability. The
other Codes and Guidelines adopted establish standards for property maintenance, construction and maintenance of swimming
pools, spas and hot tubs, and installation of solar photovoltaic
systems. The ordinance also provides penalties for non-compliance, and for fees.
The City has determined that the ordinance is exempt from the
environmental review requirements of the California
Environmental Quality Act pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) of
Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations.
A certified copy of the entirety of the text of Ordinance is available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City
Hall, 455 N. Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills, California 90210.
Further information may be obtained by contacting the
Community Development Department at 310.285.1141.
NOTICE OF
PUBLIC HEARING
The City Council of Beverly Hills, at its regular
meeting to be held on Tuesday, November 16,
2010 at 7:00 p.m., in the Council Chambers of the
City Hall, 455 N. Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills,
California 90210; will hold a public hearing to
consider:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BEVERLY
HILLS AMENDING THE UNIFORM ADMINISTRATIVE
CODE, 1997 EDITION, AND ADOPTING BY
REFERENCE THE 2010 CALIFORNIA BUILDING
CODE; 2010 CALIFORNIA RESIDENTIAL
CODE; 2010 CALIFORNIA ELECTRICAL
CODE; 2010 CALIFORNIA MECHANICAL
CODE; 2010 CALIFORNIA PLUMBING CODE;
2009 UNIFORM SWIMMING POOL, SPA AND
HOT TUB CODE; 2010 CALIFORNIA ENERGY
CODE; 2010 CALIFORNIA FIRE CODE; 2010
CALIFORNIA GREEN BUILDING STANDARDS
CODE; 2010 CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL
BUILDING CODE; 2010 CALIFORNIA EXISTING
BUILDING CODE; 2010 CALIFORNIA REFERENCE
STANDARDS CODE; 2009 INTERNATIONAL
PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE; AND THE
2010 BEVERLY HILLS PHOTOVOLTAIC
INSTALLATION GUIDELINES; INCLUDING
CERTAIN AMENDMENTS, ADDITIONS, AND
DELETIONS; AND AMENDING PORTIONS OF
TITLE 9 OF THE BEVERLY HILLS MUNICIPAL
CODE
The ordinance would adopt by reference the 2010
edition of the California Building, Mechanical,
Plumbing, Electrical, Energy, Residential, Green
Building Standards, Historical Building, Existing
Building, Reference Standards, and Fire Codes, as
well as the latest editions of the International
Property Maintenance Code, Uniform Swimming
Pool, Spa and Hot Tub Code, and Beverly Hills
Photovoltaic Installation Guidelines, together
with certain amendments, deletions and additions.
The City has determined that it can be seen with
certainty that there is no possibility the adoption
and implementation of the proposed ordinance
may have a significant effect on the environment.
The ordinance is therefore exempt from the environmental review requirements of the California
Environmental Quality Act pursuant to Section
15061(b)(3) of Title 14 of the California Code of
Regulations.
All interested persons are invited to attend and
speak on this matter. Written comments may also
be submitted and should be addressed to the City
Council, c/o City Clerk, 455 N. Rexford Drive,
Beverly Hills, CA 90210 and should be received
prior to the public hearing.
Please remember, if you challenge the Council's
action in court, you may be limited to raising only
those issues you or someone else raised at the
hearing before the City Council or in written correspondence delivered to the City, either at or
prior to the hearing.
If there are any questions regarding this notice,
please contact the Community Development
Department at 310.285.1141. Copies of the ordinance are
available for review or purchase in the
Community Development Department, 1st Floor,
455 N. Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills, California.
BEVERLY HILLS COURIER NOVEMBER 5, 2010
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4 BEVERLY HILLS COURIE NOVEMBER 5, 2010
Madrigal Finer
Wi n s 2 0 1 0 - 11
Discus Award
By Amanda Peabody
Beverly Hills High School
senior and Madrigal singer
Benjamin Finer has been
named a 2010-11 Discus
Award, which recognizes “uncommon students whose character and passions are anything but average.”
The award highlights ten
categories: academics, arts,
athletics, community service,
faith, government, green, technology, work or other achievements.
Finer received the commendation for his role within
the community as a volunteer
with the City-run “A Taste of
Broadway” program, his efforts
as a BHHS Madrigal and for
emotional and physical complications from a loss in his
family and challenging fine
motor skills.
Finer is now eligible for
the Discus Award scholarship,
worth $2,000, to help pursue
further talents and meet educational goals.
For more information on
the awards, visit www.discusawards.com.
–[email protected]
ELECTION NIGHT 2010—400
people attended the election night
reception for Attorney General
candidate Steve Cooley Tuesday
at The Beverly Hilton. The cocktail
reception allowed residents and
constituents to mingle with the
candidate and watch the polls live
from plasma screen televisions.
As of press time Thursday, Cooley
trailed Kamala Harris (D) by .1
percent with 100 percent of
precincts reporting, according to
the Secretary of State’s website. It
is likely the post will not be decided for several weeks, reports say.
Pictured: Cooley addresses the
crowd as L.A. County Sheriff Lee
D. Baca looks on.
Photo by Travis Jourdain
Professional Pursuits: Big Task Weekend, Part I
The November edition of Professional Pursuits is a three-part exclusive on Big Task Weekend–an
event that brings together a diverse group of visionary leaders in business, government, and NGOs
to facilitate partnerships to solve the world's biggest challenges.
By Alex Banayan
The spark that gets Weitz
Special To The Courier
out of bed every morning is
For Stefan Weitz, everyday
the invigorating thought that
is a new opportunity to envithere has never been a time
sion something, get it built and
like this in history to positively
have it delivered to 100 milcontribute to the advancement
lion people.
of humanity.
As the director in Bing
“We've never had a coaSearch (bing.com) at Milescing of pieces necessary to
crosoft, Weitz believes in the
achieve this kind of beneficial
limitless potential of technoloaugmentation in our daily
gy to solve any problem.
(see ‘CAREER,’ page 20)
Stefan Weitz
LA Auto Show
To Reveal 50
Vehicle Debuts
By Brenton Garen
The 2010 L.A. Auto Show
is only two weeks away and it
will debut more than 50 vehicles during the event from Nov.
19-28.
The show will feature 20
world vehicle debuts and more
than 30 North American
debuts.
Of the world 20 debuts,
several have been announced
including three from Nissan,
the completely redesigned
Quest minivan, the Murano
Cross Cabriolet crossover convertible concept and a sedan
concept called the Ellure.
Land Rover will unveil its
all-new four-door Range Rover
Evoque and SAAB will showcase its only crossover–the 94X.
For the 30 North American
debuts, it will include the
redesigned Hyundai Elantra,
Audi will unveil its all-new A7
Sportback and BMW will feature
its
redesigned
X3
crossover.
The L.A. Auto Show will be
held at the Los Angeles
Convention
Center
in
Downtown. More information
at LAAutoShow.com.
PTA Council Hosts Workshop To
Fight Cyberbullying At Home
Stop Sign Cameras Issue 1,485
Citations Over Three Months
methods to recognize and
By Amanda Peabody
combat cyberbulIn an ongoing
lying.
effort to combat
Based on four
bullying and its effects on children at
“pathways,”
Madril armed parhome and in school,
ents with specific
the PTA Council ortools parents can
ganized a cyberbuluse to address and
lying workshop for
prevent bullying
parents Wednesday.
Tony Madril
problems. They
Certified
Liare:
censed Clinical So• Build a trustful parentcial Worker Tony Madril
(LCSW, BCD) lead parents in a
(see ‘CYBERBULLY,’ page 20)
30-minute crash course on
By Brenton Garen
Three stop sign cameras
located in Franklin Canyon
Park above Beverly Hills are
photographing an average of
17 motorists a day for not stopping, but the operators say it is
all in the name of community
safety.
For the months of June, July
and August, there were a total
of 1485 citations issued from
the cameras on Franklin
Canyon Drive.
This averages to be about
Planning Commission Approves
Amendments To Medical Zoning
By Adam Popescu
On Oct. 28, the City of
Beverly Hills Planning Commission approved a draft ordinance that would amend medical zoning.
Existing legal medical uses
may continue with no additional regulation; however, existing medical uses would now
be classified as legal nonconforming uses.
Pursuant to the City's existing code regarding non-conforming use, medical uses
would be permitted to continue in their current locations so
long as they were legally permitted at the time they occupied that space and there has
been no intervening conforming use.
Under the new ordinance,
new medical uses or addition
of floor area to existing medical uses may be permitted pursuant to the following proposed new code sections. A
maximum of up to 2,500
square feet of total additional
medical floor area may be permitted in an existing building
(see ‘MEDICAL,’ page 21)
17 incidents per day, which
costs each motorist $175.
The Mountains Recreation
and Conservation Authority
installed the cameras where
they say excessive safety hazards exist.
Authority spokeswoman
Dash Stolarz said the cameras
were located where vehicles
crossed with pedestrians at trail
crossings.
“We know the use of the
(see ‘CAMERAS,’ page 20)
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE—More
than 400 people are expected to
join Walk4Friendship taking place
Nov. 14 at Rancho Park, from
12:30-4 p.m. Join for a 3K walk
and festival with carnival games,
a rock wall, face painting, a puppy
party, BBQ and more. The event
is sponsored by the Friendship
Circle of Los Angeles, a non-profit that provides programming for
Jewish children with special
needs. The walk follows last
month’s successful kick off held at
Prudential Realty here in Beverly
Hills, which raised $7,500 for the
organization. For more information, visit walk4friendshipLA.com.
Registration ends Nov. 10.
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Dancing For Make-A-Wish Foundation
By Brenton Garen
“That money will go straight to
Dancing With The Stars performer Make-A-Wish and straight to helping
Chelsie Hightower may have been boot- these kids and shaping their futures and
really doing someed from the show
thing for the better
early on into this
cause,” she said.
season with dance
“When somepartner Michael
one donates that
Bolton, but it has
$20, they get a free
given her more
trial certificate of
time to focus on
LATISSE that they
her charity work.
can take to their
She is currentdoctor and deterly taking part in
mine
whether
the
LATISSE
LATISSE is right for
Wishes Challenge
them or not.”
to raise money for
ALL HALLOWS’ EVE—Event Chair Corinne Verdery (left) commands the stage at The the Make-A-Wish
When asked
Maple Counseling Center as the organization hosted its annual haunted Crystal Ball Foundation.
about her pairing
where City heavyweights dressed to the nines. The event was emceed by Linda and Gary
with Bolton, she
In an interBriskman. Also pictured: Honoree Andy Cohen.
said it was a lot of
view
at
The
fun despite their
Beverly Hilton last
early exit from the
Friday, Hightower
show in week two.
said
she
had
“Obviously
encountered many
you
get dance partMake-A-Wish
chilBy Adam Popescu
ing to City staff.
ners who just aren’t
Thursday's City Council study ses“In addition to hiring a local lobby- dren during backgeared for dancing
sion saw discussion of Councilmember ist, we should activate the lobbyists we stage tours of the
DWTS
set.
and they’re not cut
John Mirisch's proposal to retain a local have on retainer in Sacramento and
“It
was
so
out for it and that
transport lobbyist to represent the City D.C. to protect the City's and the resiwas
kind
of
and advocate in regards to the MTA's dents' interests,” Mirisch told The Couri- inspiring to see
these kids with
Michael Bolton. I
Westside Subway Extension tunneling er.
in
their
think he would be
decision.
“We have clearly and consistently hope
eyes,”
Hightower
the first to attest to
The City of Beverly Hills utilizes expressed our support for the Santa
that,” she said.
firms in both Sacramento and Washing- Monica alignment of the subway in said. “They are so
Chelsea Hightower
“He had a lot
ton, D.C. to advocate on behalf of Century City and an effective lobbyist happy even though
they
are
faced
with
of
fun
getting to
pending legislation, regulatory issues, can help assure that our voice is heard
a
life-threatening
condition.”
learn
how
to
dance
and
we
got
booted
funding opportunities as well as trans- and our position is respected,” he said.
Anyone who visits the website, off a little bit early, but that was okay. It’s
portation, public safety and grant opMetro's Oct. 28 board of directors
portunities.
meeting ended with the board recom- www.latissewisheschallenge.com, can given me more time to focus on this and
Fiscal Year 2010-11 budget in- mending further study before determin- sign-up under her team by donating a get people onto that website.”
minimum of $20, she said.
cludes annual funding allotments of ing a final route through Beverly Hills.
$75,000 for both of the City's current
The City has held stead-fast in its
lobbying firms.
support for the Santa Monica alignFees for hiring a part-time trans- ment, which would avoid tunneling unportation consultant are estimated at der residences and Beverly Hills High
$25,000 to $30,000, annually, accord- School.
Subway Concern Prompts Debate Over
Whether To Retain Transport Lobbyist
JPA Keeps School Libraries Open Late
By Amanda Peabody
The Joint Powers Agreement (JPA) is
at work, making available beneficial
services for the school and public community at large.
Thanks to funds ($10 million annually) provided by the City, the school’s
libraries are able to stay open after
school hours at alternating sites.
“It’s been a boon for the high
school,” said Beverly High’s Head Librarian Karen Boyarsky. “We have a lot
of students who come in to study in the
evenings.”
Boyarsky says the public, especially
community members attending the district’s adult school classes, also utilize
the library’s later hours.
Boyarsky is also on hand to lend
support to students and community
members, as well as all facilitate BHHS
library amenities including computers,
magazine subscriptions and online offerings.
Extended library hours are from
3:15-6:15 p.m. Beverly High and Beverly Vista are open later Monday, Beverly High and El Rodeo Tuesday, Horace
Mann on Wednesdays and Hawthorne
on Thursdays.
Homeless Outreach Coming To Library
By Adam Popescu
The City will host a homeless outreach services day on Monday, Nov. 15
from 10:30 to noon at the Beverly Hills
Public Library.
The event, provided by members of
the City's CLASP program (changing
lives and sharing places), is an open
session for anyone who is homeless or
at risk of being homeless. Participants
will receive information on homeless
services including: discounted identification, benefits assistance (G.R. and
SSI), temporary and permanent shelter
options, medical treatment and transportation assistance.
For more information, call the
CLASP team at 310-487-0313.
Jewish Foundation Contributes $250,000
The Jewish Community Foundation
of Los Angeles has contributed
$250,000 to the Jewish Federation of
Greater L.A. for its Emergency Cash
Grants program, providing emergency
funds through five local social-service
agencies to Jewish families and individuals adversely affected by the economic recession and workforce reductions.
Since March of last year, the ECG
program has contributed $1.5 million
to almost 3,400 people.
replace the
experienced
personnel,”
assesses
Denzel.
GEORGE CHRISTY
“W
Unstoppable’s
Denzel Washington
with wife Pauletta
during the Fox
premiere at the
Regency Village
Theatre in
Westwood.
Chris
is Denzel’s rookie
back-up, four months on the
job. His family’s known as big
shots in the railroad business,
and he’s training to take over
Denzel’s job. Believing he
knows more than Denzel, it
doesn’t take long to find he’s
dead wrong.
Celebrity Photo/Janet Gough and Gilbert Flores
T
here’s always a first.
In this case, the first time
we’ve seen a movie where
the leading character’s a
train carrying 39 cars.
Denzel Washington, with
undaunted energy, plays
an old-hand train engineer
of
28
years
in
Unstoppable,
and he
agrees. “The real star, the
777, is the size of the
Chrysler building as it rips
through Pennsylvania. It’s
the shark in Jaws, the monster that’ll crash through
and
destroy
people,
towns, anything and everything in its path. I’m just a side
man, a supporting player, as is
Chris Pine.”
I
nspired by actual events,
the suspense is relentless as the
777 dangerously races through
the Pennsylvania terrain. “We
called the train the Beast Triple7 … it has a voice,” says director Tony Scott.
“Like the
haunted car that terrorizes a
community in Stephen King’s
Christine. It starts out at 50
miles an hour.”
His cast
includes train yard supervisor
Rosario Dawson, who Tony
describes as “the voice of reason in these highly dramatic
circumstances.”
Cast and
crew see eye-to-eye – that the
train’s unquestionably a scenestealer.
I
Celebrity Photo/Gilbert Flores
ronically, Unstoppable’s
initial scenes occur during a
field trip for elementary school
children to learn about train
safety. Embarking one morning
in a crowded railroad car on
the Beast Triple-7 that ultimately hits 150 miles an hour. The
terrifying battle to stop the
Lisa Rinna and husband Harry
Hamlin as Lucille Ball and Desi
Arnaz at the 17th Annual Dream
Halloween party benefiting
Children Affected by AIDS
Foundation at Barker Hanger.
e
ended
up
leasing four
777s
and
turning
them into
blind-drive
trains
…
when
all
was
said
and done,
we
used
eight locomotives and
60 individDirector Tony Scott with
Producers Chris Chiaffa and
wife Donna and sons
Mimi Rogers with daughter Lucy ual
train
c a r s , ”
reveals production designer
Chris Seagers. “Tony liked the
look of the Rust Belt,” adds
location manager Janice Polley,
who scouted settings in
Pennsylvania, West Virginia
and Ohio.
Director of
Photography Ben Seresin set up
six to twelve cameras on the
Chris Pine
train, on the stationary platBeast with the forms, and along the track.
conductor-less “Trying to communicate with
train
has my camera crew spread for
Denzel, at the miles down the track increased
r e a d y . the complexity of the shoot.”
Unstoppable Ben’s cinematography merits
takes place in an Academy Award nominaa day, unfold- tion, as does Tony’s direction.
Rosario
Dawson
frame.
A
veteran of action films,
Denzel’s specific about what
he will and will not do. “I had
to have been insane, actually
driving the train for 50 miles,
unhitching it, backing it up,
and connecting it with another
train. Why on earth did I agree
to run across the top of a moving train when the train’s going
down the track at 50 miles an
hour? I’m sprinting across the
top, while a helicopter hovers
ten feet above me, slaloming
between trees and the train
cars, up, down and all around –
suddenly I’m hanging off the
side. Trains are a lot taller than
you imagine. I was crazy.”
“U
rine-provoking” says
Chris about their rough stunts.
Denzel was so impressed with
Chris in Farragut North that he
recommended him for the role.
Credit stunt coordinator Gary
Powell and his team for riding
through the tough tasks. “Cast
iron wheels were spinning in
their faces to the ear-splitting
noise of metal on metal, while
tons of steel roar down the
track. Very intimidating. These
are real stunts … rare these
days with so much CGI.”
T
Busy Phillips with daughter
Birdie Leigh Silverstein
ing its chilling
momentum
within a twohour
time
he story is a metaphor
for our current financial times.
“Businesses today are caught in
our economic downtown, running old guys out to bring in
younger, cheaper labor to
S
everal columns ago
(10/15/10), we quoted Ethan
Mordden, who writes in his
provocative The Guest List that
Los Angeles is now the cultural
capital of the U.S. Agree with
him or not, Lauren A. K.
Schuker in last Friday’s Wall
Street Journal echoes Ethan’s
and our sentiments in her frontpage Friday Journal article, The
L.A. Art Boom. She explores
the city’s arts growth and dominance – and while we may not
be there quite yet, it’s happening.
“L.A. is very hot at the
moment,” Glenn Lowry, director of New York’s Museum of
Modern Art, tells Lauren.
She adds that “Hollywood
agents, media personalities and
studio executives pack museum
boards, alongside traditional
philanthropists,” and that “contemporary art – a market that’s
fluctuated wildly in recent
years – is the only art that
matters for many top collectors and museums.”
Maria Bell serving as co-chair
of the museum board. Strong
supporters include Lennie and
Bernie Greenberg, Jane and
Marc Nathanson and the Gersh
agency: Linda and Bob Gersh,
Susan and David Gersh. Locals
recall that Bob and David’s parents, Bea and Phil Gersh, were
early-on MoCA boosters.
“B
illionaires don’t just
donate to museums, they build
their own,” Lauren reports
about the Lynda and Stuart
Resnick Pavilion at LACMA that
opened last month with a
masked gala, which we devoted our 10/15/10 column to.
The Resnicks gave $45 million
in 2008 for LACMA to build the
$54 million museum, designed
by the “go-to architect Renzo
Piano for major museum commissions.”
B
illionaire Eli Broad is
building a museum downtown
near the Walt Disney Concert
Hall to house the Broads’ vast
contemporary art collection
that “will now be accessible to
the largest possible audience.”
When MoCA’s financial balance sheets hit the skids, Eli
saved the downtown museum
with a contribution of $30 million.
L
auren finds that before
the Broads and the Resnicks,
billionaires Norton Simon and
Armand Hammer created
museums in their names.
David Geffen contributed $5
million to MoCA, with the
Geffen Contemporary being
one of MoCA’s three popular
locations. Arriviste billionaire
Russians are now rocking the
art scene in the U.S. and
Moscow. Modern art’s gone
viral.
A
s a three-year Army veteran, we’re disgusted with the
state of Illinois. Inexplicably –
and without any meaningful
explanation – losing absentee
ballots for the military. These
Americans are serving our
country, yet somehow their
voices are blithely put out to
pasture. Yipes!
Online at
www.bhcourier.com/georgechristy.cfm
T
he newcomer L&M
Arts gallery on Venice
Boulevard arrived last month
with an exhibition of Paul
McCartney sculptures that
sold out, priced between $2
million and $5 million.
Willow Bay, wed to Disney’s
Bob Iger, is a LACMA board
member, as is Barbra
Streisand, a collector of
Edward Hopper and German
Expressionists.
On MoCA’s
board are Sex and the City creator Darren Star, with The
Young and Restless writer
Celebrity Photo/Janet Gough
6 BEVERLY HILLS COURIER NOVEMBER 5, 2010
Due Date’s Robert Downey
Jr. with wife Susan Levin
red-carpeted at the
Warner Bros. Hollywood
premiere
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By Adam Popescu
Alex Rotaru came to play.
The Beverly Hills resident and Romanian-transplant's new film They
Came To Play is making waves in the
festival circuit, and is playing through
Sunday, Nov. 7 at the Downtown Independent in Los Angeles.
They Came
To Play is a feature-length documentary about
the Van Cliburn
International
Amateur Piano
Competition in
Fort
Worth,
Texas.
The
pianists, who are
accomplished
professionals in
other
fields,
come to play
for the love of
the art and the
chance to pursue
their
dreams. Among
the players are a
dental assistant,
a retired tennis
player, a ventriloquist and an
AIDS survivor,
all who share
the love of music. Many were
classically trained pianists who were
unable to pursue the craft professionally due to circumstance and life challenges.
“This is a film that can capture a lot
of hearts,” Rotaru, the film's director,
explained. “We wanted to give our audience a glimpse into the world of these
gifted amateur pianists who have found
a way to keep their passion for music
alive while leading full and fascinating
lives-in the hope of inspiring others to
do the same.”
The film chronicles the competition
wherein 75 of the world's top non-professional pianists (over 35 years old) are
selected to perform in three juried elimination rounds.
The film has received numerous accolades and praise, including the prestigious New York Times Critics Pick, and
has been called “delightful and disarming” by Variety.
Rotaru, also an amateur pianist, has
received
acclaim for his previous work, including the PBS
documentary
The
Hobart
Shakespeareans;
winner of the
2006 Christopher Award, the
Gold
Special
Jury Award at the
2005 WorldFest
Houston, and
Outstanding
Achievement in
Documentary at
the 2005 Newport Beach International
Film
Festival; and the
recent Kids with
Cameras, winner
of the Grand
Prize at the 2010
Monaco Charity
Film
Festival,
and screening
in-competition
at the Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival this
coming Saturday, Nov 6.
Rotaru is currently in post-production with Shakespeare High, a feature
documentary executive produced by
Kevin Spacey, chronicling the oldest
high-school theater competition in the
US, which changes the lives of disadvantaged, at-risk teens.
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10.
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Kick Smoking With Dr. Judy Rosenberg
By Adam Popescu
Dr. Judy Rosenberg is kicking it.
Smoking that is.
The psychologist and author of
Kick It, a guide to quitting smoking, is
working to revive her message, teaming
with electronic cigarette company Never Light Again to help smokers kick the
habit for good.
“I believe that the e-cigarette in
combination with the stop smoking
plan is going to be the cutting edge way
of transitioning out of smoking,” Rosenberg said. “I know that this is the cutting edge way for smokers to smoke
and kick the habit. I'm the only Psychologist incorporating this method.”
Rosenberg advocates use of the ecigarette as a tool for smokers to quit
their habit. That cigarette substitute,
along with her new e-book The Habit
Breakers Kick It! Plan form the backbone of her treatment. The e-book covers weight gain, relapse prevention,
and many other smoking related topics.
“What I intend to get out of this
project is to let smokers know that there
is an easy way to kick this habit and
lose the desire to resume,” she said.
“Nicotine withdrawal only lasts 48-72
hours and can be managed with education. They key to long term success is
relapse prevention, covered in the ebook.”
While not FDA approved, the ecigarette is very safe according to the
CDC and other health agencies, Rosenberg said. Over 1,000 young people
start smoking daily, with over 50 million smokers worldwide.
In 1980, Rosenberg started the
Habit Breakers Clinic, and in 1986
Join Us for the Event of the Season and support a good cause
“ A Taste of Tango!”
An Evening of Culinary Delights, Art, & Exotic Dance
to benefit eye research and prevent blindness
Saturday Evening November 13, 2010 • 6 p.m.
Tanzore Ballroom
50 N. La Cienega Blvd.
Beverly Hills
Internationally recognized tango duo, Tango Elegante, from
the theatrical hit, Red, Hot & Cole", a tribute to Cole Porter,
will be giving a rare performance featuring early style, modern
day and Argentinian Tango and a a tango lesson for attendees.
Don't miss this rare opportunity to experience dinner, dancing
and get an intimate “Taste of Tango” with Tango Elegante!
Limited Seating . Call 310-248-7468 or purchase tickets at
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Dr. Judy Rosenberg
wrote a self-help book on kicking the
habit. Kick It, based on the cold turkey
approach, sold over a quarter of a million copies. Rosenberg holds a Ph.D
and Master's in psychology from the
California Graduate Institute in Los Angeles and a BA in psychology from
UCLA. Her Doctoral Dissertation, the
Effects Of A Mood-Altering Treatment
On The Success Rate And Depression
Level Of Smokers Who Want To Stop
Smoking led her on a life-long journey
to deal with this issue. During the
1980s, Rosenberg set up stop smoking
programs at her alma mater BHHS,
wherein she lectured on prevention.
“I think that this plan using the ecigarette is the most important smoking
cessation breakthrough we have in our
hands,” she said. “The bottom line is
that people don't want to lose the
pleasure, just the pain. Now they can
stop smoking, retain the pleasure principle, and either use the cold turkey or
gradual withdrawal method to do so.”
For more, visit neverlightagain.com
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Marla Maples and Taylor Dane
Hayden Turner and
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Chef Jamie Gwen
DJ Michelle Pesce
Robert Shapiro, Maryam
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Craig and Lisa Strong
Jason Lewis
Alan and Susan Fuerstman, Russell Kendrick and Kim Vo
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NOVEMBER 5, 2010
Happenings Around Town
ArtLA Returns To L.A. January With Innovative Art
By Brenton Garen
Circle the date Jan. 20 in
your calendar as it marks the
return of the sixth annual
artLA, the original Los Angeles
International Contemporary Art
Fair.
Founder and director
Stephen Cohen said the annual
event at the Santa Monica
Auditorium drew crowds
upwards of 8,000 people.
“It’s always been a boutique fair and has a good reputation for being small, but there
is a lot of terrific work and a lot
of good energy throughout the
fair,” Cohen said.
The fair will exhibit a mix
of established and emerging art
galleries.
The multi-day, international event will highlight innovative work from Los Angelesbased and international galleries alongside dealers and
galleries from across the country.
Cohen said the fair would
feature a stimulating series of
satellite exhibitions, non-profit
events, and lectures before,
during, and after the main
exhibition days which are Jan.
20–23.
This will be his 50th Art
Fair he has produced during
the past 20 years.
He will also produce
photo L.A. in the week leading
up to artLA from Jan. 13-16 in
the same location.
For more information, visit
www.artla.net and photola.
com.
After 65 years still serving the best dish in town.
• Far Niente And Nickel &
Nickel Wine Dinner At The
Peninsula
To celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Far Niente Winery, The Peninsula Beverly Hills
will host a special wine dinner
at The Belvedere Nov. 18-19,
from 6-10:30 p.m.
Executive Chef James Overbaugh will create a four-course
menu to pair with select wines
from Far Niente and their partner Nickel & Nickel Single Vineyard Wines.
The dinner is $99 per person, including wine pairings.
To make reservations or for
the complete menu, call 310975-2736.
• Saks Fifth Avenue Holiday
Shopping Event
The holiday shopping season starts early Nov. 6 as Saks
Fifth Avenue, Beverly Hills,
hosts an exclusive shopping
event to benefit Room to Read,
from 1-7 p.m.
Saks Fifth Avenue will donate five percent of sales to
Room to Read and its mission to
promote literacy and gender
equality in the developing
world.
Advance registration is required. To
RSVP,
email
[email protected].
• UCLA Burkle Center Hosts
Lecture On Conditions Of
Peace
The UCLA Burkle Center
will host Adm. Mike Mullen,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, as he delivers the 2010-11
Bernard Brodie distinguished
lecture on the conditions of
peace Nov. 10 at 3:30 p.m. at
Korn Convocation Hall at the
UCLA Anderson School of Management.
www.international.ucla.edu/bur
kle/calendar or call 310-2066365. Inquiries can also be
made by emailing [email protected].
• Herb Kornfield Artwalk Sale
To Benefit Concern Foundation
The Concern Foundation for
Cancer Research will host a
Herb Kornfield artwork sale today and tomorrow from 5-8
p.m. at The Language of Flowers
(726 Montana Ave., Santa Monica).
Kornfield, who passed away
last year, was the president of
the American School, traveled
the world painting in remote
and accessible villages and
cities. His paintings can be
found in many private collections.
www.concernfoundation.org.
• First Laugh For Sight At Melrose Improv
The first Los Angeles Laugh
for Sight comedy benefit will be
held at the Melrose Improv in
Hollywood, Nov. 9 at 8 p.m. A
VIP cocktail hour will precede
at 6:30 p.m.
The event will feature some
of the nation’s best stand-up comedians including Sarah Silverman, Adam Ferrara, Kevin Pollack, Alonzo Bodden, Christopher Titus and Brian Fischler
with his guide dog Nash.
Proceeds will benefit Scheie
Eye Institute at the University of
Pennsylvania and Guiding Eyes
for the Blind.
For tickets, visit www.improv.com.
• Judith Leiber Hosts Mad Men
Costume Designer Book Launch
Mary Gleason, brand president of Judith Leiber, will toast
Janie Bryant, costume designer
for Mad Men, on the launch of
her new book, The Fashion File,
Nov. 8 from 6-8 p.m.
A limited number of books
will be available for signing by
the author.
To RSVP, call 212-502-7942
or email [email protected].
• Le Salon de Musiques At
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Enjoy classical music, cusine and conversation at Le Salon de Musiques’ Sunday chamber music series at The Dorothy
Chandler Pavilion through May
1, 2011.
The one-hour concert series
will be followed by one-hour
discussions between the musicians and the audience, all
while enjoying champagne and
a gourmet buffet by Patina.
The series is held monthly at
4 p.m. The next Sunday program
is Nov. 21.
Tickets are $65 per person.
To purchase tickets or to see the
full program, visit www.lesalondemusiques.com or call 310498-0257.
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George Christy’s Pick Of The Week: A Woman Of Stature
T
he corrosive effects of
racism festered throughout the
South. At age 5, when she went
with her family downtown to
see Santa Claus, she overheard
“my father commenting that
Santa seemed to be treating
black children differently. The
Santa in question had been putting the white kids on his knee
and keeping the black children
standing. ‘If he does that to
Condoleezza,’ Daddy said to
Mother, ‘I’m going to pull all
that stuff off him and expose him
as just another cracker.’ Perhaps
Santa felt the vibes because he
put me on his knee and listened
to my list. But I never forgot
how racially charged that
er parents infused in moment felt around, of all
Condi the enjoyment of music, things, Santa Claus.”
notably piano and opera,
debate and football. After
he was eight during the
watching her grandmother play summer of 1963 when, being
the piano at age 3, she begged black in Birmingham, there was
her father John, a minister and “no place to hide.” Night riders
educator, for a piano. “When from the KKK exploded bombs
you can play What a Friend We in her neighborhood. Standing
Have In Jesus, he promised to guard with his gun, her father
buy
one.” Sitting at her would fire to terrify the maraudgrandmother’s piano all day ers. Four young girls died in a
without lunch, she played it bombing, and to this day
perfectly when her parents Condi’s a strong advocate for the
arrived, and her father didn’t Second Amendment and the
disappoint. After discovering right to bear arms. After John F.
the music of Mozart, she Kennedy was assassinated, her
dreamed of being his wife, political awakening began. She
while classmates were crazy studied political science, earnabout Elvis Presley.
ing a master’s degree at Notre
Dame.
H
S
S
he rose from
professor to provost at
Stanford University
and
a
National
Security
Council
staffer.
The final
chapter ends in the
year
2000
with
George W. Bush’s
election as president,
and a week later she
was called to serve as
the
president’s
National
Security
Adviser.
Crown Publishers
O
ur first black Secretary
of State, Condoleezza Rice,
whose smile fills every room,
has published Extraordinary,
Ordinary People: A Memoir Of
Family. Hers is a heartfelt and
poignant look-back into an
inspiring and fulfilling life that
surmounted the horrors of
America’s most segregated city
–Birmingham,
Alabama.
Condi, as she likes to be called,
credits her mother Angelena,
born into an educated family,
instilling the love of learning
and the arts at an early age.
She explains that Condoleezza
translates as “with sweetness”
in Italian.
I
n
2011,
she’ll publish her
political memoir.
Meanwhile,
E x t r a o r d i n a r y,
Ordinary People
is an uplifting
read of a triumphant life by
the most successful black woman
in the history of
government.
Family album photographs,
including the shot of Condi
on Air Force One
“M
y parents were determined to give me
a chance to live a
unique
and
happy life. In that they succeeded. This is why every night
I begin my prayers saying: ‘Lord,
I can never thank you enough
for the parents you gave me.’”
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Something Your Real Estate Broker Does Not Know:
Why The Real Estate Market Just Got Worse For Sellers
By Michael Shore
In the event you are one of
the many who did not think the
the real estate market could get
any worse for sellers, I regret to
inform you, it just has.
In a recent published opinion, California’s Fourth Circuit
Court of Appeals has created yet
another obstacle that home seller’s throughout the state will now
need to deal with. Based on the
ruling, it is now the law that
“non-refundable” funds released
to the seller in the course of an
escrow must, in most instances,
be returned to the buyer when
the sale fails to close.
More troubling than the rule
itself is the fact the recent change
is something your real estate broker is likely not aware of.
The court’s ruling is bad
news for sellers. According to
DataQuick Incorporated, more
than 65 percent of recent escrows for home sales throughout
Beverly Hills and the Westside
are extended 30 days or more beyond the originally negotiated
term.
The reason is primarily the
result of the buyer’s inability to
obtain financing.
Ty p i c a l l y,
when this
happens,
the buyer
requests
an extension of the
escrow
Michael Shore
closing
date and the seller, faced with a
struggling economy and a limited
supply of buyers, reluctantly
agrees to extend the escrow.
Though this scenario can routinely occur without incident, serious
problems can arise when one extension turns into several, or
when the seller has other obligations, such as funding deadlines
on its purchase of a new home,
which it can not meet absent the
sale of its current residence.
In these instances, the seller’s only recourse is to request
the buyer to release “non-refundable” funds during the extended escrow period. According
to many brokers and agents, this
practice is commonplace in today’s market, since it not only
permits the buyer the additional
time it requires, but it also allows
the seller to have funds available
to it for its purchase of its replacement property.
Unfortunately for many sellers, the recent ruling made by the
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
renders this useful and fair practice meaningless since it forces
the seller to return released
monies it receives. In the Fourth
Circuit Case, the plaintiff and defendant opened escrow for the
purchase of a $14 million home
in Laguna Beach. The seller requested an extension of the escrow period and released
$620,000 to the seller, which the
parties agreed would be “non-refundable.” Ultimately, the buyer
elected not to proceed with its
purchase and requested return of
the $620,000. When the seller
refused to return the money, a
lawsuit followed.
Though the Orange County
Superior Court agreed with the
seller by refusing to order the return of the money, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed
and reversed the decision of the
trial court. Based on the court’s
ruling, it is now the law that
funds released to the seller in the
course of an escrow must, in
most instances, be returned to
the buyer when the sale fails to
close.
According to the court, the
new rule applies even when the
parties agree that the funds are to
be “non-refundable”! Interestingly, when presented with the
above scenario, 86 percent of local real estate agents and brokers
stated that monies released and
identified as “non-refundable”
should remain with the seller.
The ruling is bad policy.
First, it is confusing for agents
and brokers, who are the front
line professionals primarily responsible for arranging these
transactions, but who are not licensed as attorneys and therefore
not automatically trained to apply the ruling. Second, the ruling
creates more obstacles for sellers
in an already difficult market and
interferes with the rights of represented and sophisticated parties
to freely negotiate and contract.
Notwithstanding, the Court
of Appeals did suggests that there
are some limited exceptions that
will permit the seller to retain the
released monies. The exceptions
are as follows:
• (1) The seller can rightfully
retain released monies when the
parties expressly agree through
written amendments to the escrow instructions that the non-refundable deposits are expressly
given as consideration for the extension of the escrow;
• (2) The seller can rightfully
retain released monies if the original contract provided for liquidated damages and the released
monies do not exceed 3 percent
of the purchase price; and
• (3) The seller can rightfully retain released monies if the
seller can legally establish actual damages equivalent to the
sums released.
Of course, it must now be
the priority of every real estate
broker and practitioner to become well versed in the new
rule and the exceptions to it
and to arrange their transactions accordingly.
Michael Shore is a licensed
Beverly Hills real estate broker
and attorney.
A Special Supplement To The Beverly Hills Courier
Active Retirement
Are you concerned about increasing long-term health expenses, taxes and retirement?
Crowell, Weedon & Co. Advisor Suggests
Considering Long-Term Care Insurance
ovember is National LongTerm Care Awareness Month
and many will read or hear
about long-term care insurance, but
don’t decide to take action until it
strikes home and it is then too late,”
said Crowell Weedon Financial Adviser Mike Saunders.
"One can exhaust much of their
savings to care for themselves or a
loved one because they didn’t have
proper financial protection. In fact, a
relative of mine has an illness and if
this person had not purchased longterm care in advance, it would have
created an ongoing financial hardship,” Saunders said.
He points out that asset-based
Long-Term Care should be considered
a part of your estate plan.
To help answer questions, address costs and discuss options,
Saunders will present two 90-minute
discussions at 3:30 or 5:45 p.m. on
Wednesday Nov. 17 at the Beverly
Hills Public Library, 444 N. Rexford
Dr.(see ad at right).
Facts:
According to a 2008 study by the
US Department of Health and Human
Services, a least 70 percent of people
over the age of 65 will need long-term
care service at some point in their
lives.
Also, the American Association of
Long-Term Care Insurance(aaltci.org)
reports that women especially bear
the burden of long-term care costs for
three reasons: women on average live
longer than men, they require care
longer, and because women more often assume the responsibility for their
family's welfare, they often become
the primary caregivers for elderly family members or their partner.
Along with Saunders, CPA's Gloria Birnkrant and Sheldon Bern will address and discuss proposed changes
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Protecting Your Assets and
Health Benefits in a
challenging economy.
* How upcoming changes in the new tax laws will
affect your life
* The impact of the new healthcare legislation on
your wallet
* Strategies to reduce the cost of Long-Term Care:
Asset based Long-Term Care versus "pay as you
go" Long-Term Care.
*Tax advantaged strategies for individuals and
business owners to reduce your tax bite.
90 Minute Presentation - food will be served
Presenters:
Michael Saunders is a financial advisor at Crowell, Weedon &
Michael Saunders
in tax laws as they relate to individuals, couples, small business owners
and estates.
Health-care costs related to employers and employees will also be addressed.
With more than 20 years of experience as a financial advisor, Saunders
has played an active role in helping
clients, small businesses, corporations and retirees in many aspects of
financial planning including 401(k)
plans, self-directed IRA rollovers, taxable and tax-advantaged investments
and insurance.
Crowell, Weedon and Co. is one of
the oldest financial services companies in Los Angeles and the oldest independent brokerage firm in the
West.
For more information, e-mail
[email protected] or
call 800-320-6364.
Get Moving To Treat And Prevent Arthritis
More than just aches and pains,
arthritis is a chronic disease that
damages joints and can lead to loss
of function or disability. In fact, it is
the most common cause of disability
in the United States, affecting 50 million Americans or 22 percent of the
total population.
The effects of arthritis can be
devastating, but self-management
strategies such as weight loss and
increasing physical activity can
lessen pain and improve function, and
may prevent or limit the impact of
arthritis on daily activities. “For every
one pound you lose, that's four
pounds of pressure off each knee,”
says Dr. Patience H. White, the
Arthritis Foundation's vice president
of public health. In addition, losing as
little as 11 pounds can reduce your
risk of developing knee osteoarthritis
by 50 percent.
It is important for Americans to
make daily movement a year-round
goal. While it may seem hard to get
BEVERLY HILLS COURIER, NOVEMBER 5, 2010 1AR
started, there are plenty of opportunities for you to move year-round, no
matter where you are or what the season:
• Move with others. Enjoy exercise more by making it a social activity you can enjoy with your friends.
• Take a walk. A stroll around
your neighborhood or on a walking
path will not only leave you with a
trimmer physique and less joint pain,
but can also improve your mood and
overall sense of well-being. When it’s
too cold or hot outside, move indoors
by using a treadmill or walking in
place.
• Try Tai Chi. Tai Chi is an ancient
Chinese exercise with a variety of
proven health benefits, such as reducing stress and relieving arthritis pain.
Because its gentle movements are
easy to learn and do not require
uncomfortable bending or squatting,
Tai Chi is a great way to move all
year.
—Courtesy of ARA Content
Co. Michael has over 20 years experience in working with Individuals,
Corporations and small businesses in Asset Management, Retirement
and Estate Planning.
Gloria Birnkrant, CPA- a partner at NSBN Accounting firm in
Beverly Hills. Gloria has over 30 years of experience providing tax and
accounting services, financial analysis and general management
consulting. Gloria's areas of expertise include closely held businesses,
and personal and estate planning.
Sheldon Bern, CPA , has been practicing in the accounting fieldfor over 40 years specializing in small and medium size businesses
along with assisting clients in the areas of estate and retirement
planning.
November 17, 2010 • 3:30pm or 5:45pm
The Beverly Hills Library
444 N. Rexford Drive
Reservations required as seating to this
event will be limited.
Call 800-320-6364 or you may email
[email protected]
Established 1932 Member SIPC/FINRA. One of the
largest Independent Investment firms in the West. Built
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Due Date–Same Old, Same Old
Due Date is a buddy picJerry
ture of sorts.
The script by director Todd
Cutler
Phillips and three other scribes
landed two stars to appear in
On Film
this unoriginal comedy that suffers from, “I’ve-seen-it-beforeitis.” It places two very different
guys in ridiculous situations as
they travel from NY to L.A. I
seem to remember bits and
pieces of other bedfellow
comedies that mysteriously
showed up in Due Date
because four writers couldn’t
come up with something original and funny.
The film is one cliché after
another as Robert Downey Jr.
and Zach Galifianakis face trials and tribulations (which, in
itself, is a cliché) trying to get to
California before Downey’s
baby is born.
The two, architect Peter
“Highman,” (a terrible and idiotic reference to Downey’s past
foolish indiscretions),
and
actor wanabe, Ethan Tremblay
(Galifianakis) literally bump in
to each other at JFK in New
York and, somehow their bags
get switched.
Unfortunately, drugs are
found in Tremblay’s suitcase
and, of course, the baggage
police think it belongs to
Highman. Highman argues that
he never took drugs. “Ha Ha.”
The laughs could be heard
from the screening room to the
nearest drug rehab center.
(see ‘DATE,’ page 23)
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Anesthesiologist, Violinist
Shines In Doctors Symphony
When the Los Angles
Doctors Symphony Orchestra
(LADSO) kicks off its 2010-11
season next Friday, long-time
resident and anesthesiologist
Dr. Richard Chen, will once
again be featured in the first
violin section.
Chen first learned about the
orchestra from a 1994 story in
The Courier about the group’s
Garage Sale To
Benefit BHHS
Dance Company
FESTIVAL–On hand for the closing night award ceremonies of the
inaugural Beverly Hills Film, TV & New Media Festival, benefitting the
American Red Cross, were (from left): Domenica Scorsese, Festival
Director Donna Spangler, Michael Sorvino, Festival Programming
Director Nicole Holland, and Paul Sorvino who was honored for his lifetime achievements along with Seymour Cassel and Martin Landau.
Screenings took place at the Laemmle Music Hall.
Photo by Glen Lipton
A multi-family garage sale
to raise funds for the BHHS
Dance Company will be held
from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday,
Nov. 7 at 212 S. Canon Dr.
The sale will feature clothes,
designer shoes, books, videos
and a bake sale.
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Independence Day concert in
the City.
“The article mentioned they
were looking for more players,”
Chen said, so he went to a summer rehearsal (rare for the group
that usually takes a hiatus then)
“and got hooked.”
He’s been a member since;
and is now president of the symphony’s four-member elected
council.
“It’s no small task taking
care of all aspects of presenting
the concerts and making sure we
are well prepared,” said Chen.
He sees his job as “being openminded in listening to members.” Sixty strong about a third
of the members are in the healthcare field, including students.
Over the years the orchestra
has broadened its membership
to include those from other professions. “Now we say that if
you’ve been to a doctor or are
being treated by one you can
(see ‘VIOLINIST,’ page 23)
‘Harts’ Join For
Paley Reunion
The Paley Center for Media
will host a Hart To Hart reunion
at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 8 at
465 N. Beverly Dr.
Beverly Hills residents
Stefanie Powers and Robert
Wagner, the amateur sleuth couple of the show, will share
behind-the-scenes stories from
the popular TV show.
Afterward, both will sign
copies of their respective autobiographies, Powers’ One From
The Hart and Wagner's Pieces
Of My Heart: A Life.
Cost is $10 for members,
$15 general public.
For more information, call
3104-786-1000
or
visit
www.paleycenter.org.
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Is This Movie Poster Worth More Than $700,000?
A Beverly Hills Auction House Says ‘Yes’ It Is
By Brenton Garen
History could be made for the most expensive movie poster ever sold when The Bride of
Frankenstein goes under the hammer in Beverly
Hills next week.
Heritage Auctions Beverly Hills will host its
signature movie poster auction Nov. 12-13 –
with the only known copy of the 1935 poster
expected to be sold for more than $700,000.
Heritage Movie Posters Director Grey Smith
said the poster was iconic for its period in filmmaking.
“This poster is one of the rarest – if not the
very rarest – movie posters in the world,” Smith
said. “It’s survived in amazing condition, with
vibrant colors and stunning graphics, and it
stands poised to realize the highest price ever
paid for a movie poster when it hits the auction
block.”
This poster comes from the renowned collection of Todd Feiertag.
“I’ve had the distinct pleasure of enjoying
this poster in my private collection for the last
thirty plus years,” Feiertag said. “While I still
own several others from this title, I feel like this
is the right time to give this treasure back to the
world and to let another collector know the thrill
of looking at it everyday.”
The auction will feature 1400 lots in total.
Most of the posters are from Golden Age
Hollywood with the likes of Casablanca,
Dracula, King Kong, The Maltese Falcon and
Grapes of Wrath to name a few.
An oversized Austrian three sheet to the
1933 classic King Kong is already drawing collector attention and is estimated to collect
upwards of $50,000.
This poster features the giant ape standing
on the Empire State Building holding horrified
Ann Darrow in his hand.
Visit Marilyn Monroe
Other rare horror posters at this auction
include a half sheet to Werewolf of London
(1935), estimated at more than $40,000, a
jumbo window card to Son of Frankenstein
(1939), estimated at more than $7000, a rare
portrait lobby card from Dracula (1931), estimated at more than $24,000.
Heritage Auctions Beverly Hills is located at
9478 West Olympic Boulevard.
More information on the upcoming auction
is available at HA.com.
Pierce Bros Westwood
Village Memorial Park is hidden
behind the towering high-rises that line
busy Wilshire Boulevard; you could
easily drive right past the park without
even realizing it was there. Yet at this
tiny cemetery near UCLA, you will find
the final resting places of some of the most
famous stars in Hollywood, including
Marilyn Monroe, Donna Reed, Dean
Martin, Natalie Wood, Roy Orbison, Carroll
O'Connor, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau,
Don Knotts, Eddie Albert, Peggy Lee, Mel
Torme, George C. Scott, Burt Lancaster, Eve
Arden, Carl Wilson, Eva Gabor and Truman
Capote.
Contact Henry Kelemen, Kelemen Real
Estate (310) 966-0900 or email at:
[email protected] for possibly the last resale crypt located in the prime
location adjacent to Truman Capote. The
Seller is accepting offers from qualified buyers. Terms are 10% deposit with balance due
upon transfer of title.
“Los Angeles County Investor Frustrated And Disgusted With 1% CD’s. Says
She Is A Victim Of Bank’s Greed … Free Report Reveals What TO Do!”
Los Angeles, CA- She was simply
stunned to hear what her banker
told her. "I'm really sorry Elizabeth,
but I can't do any better than 1.65%
on that CD. If you want to tie it up
for 10 years, I can get you a little
over 2%, but that's it."
Lousy 2% On CD’s! What’s She
Going To Do?
Elizabeth felt betrayed. After all,
she had been putting her savings in
this bank for 17 years. And now
that Frank was no longer here, she
had to take care of everything herself.
It frightened her to have to deal
with taxes, and paying bills, and
trying to figure out things like refinancing her house. All that was
tough enough, but then watching
her monthly income sink like a
brick in the water, was the last
straw.
"He didn't even care that we had
been such loyal customers all these
years.", thought Elizabeth.
There Is Nothing The Banker Can
Do.
"I asked him why I was still paying 15.5% on my credit card balances, when he was only willing to
pay me a little better than 1% on
my savings. It made me real sad to
hear him say that there was nothing
he could do."
As she stepped into her home, she
was reminded of Frank everywhere
she looked. "What would he do?"
she said to no one in particular.
Elizabeth then opened the mail,
and saw the statement from her
stock brokerage house. She was
afraid to open it, because the market had been on such a roller coaster ride that she knew her accounts
were likely to be down. Again.
Her Stock Accounts Went
Down…Again!
Sure enough, when she saw the
balance of her IRA and mutual
fund accounts, she got a sick feeling in the pit of her stomach.
Elizabeth had to sit down and gather herself, staring at the unbelievable amount of money her accounts
had lost, even worse then before!
She started to cry. She said out
loud to no one in particular, “I’ve
lost over 30% of my retirement
money, and I’m too old to make it
up. Why did I put money in this
ridiculously risky market? I should
have known better.” Then
Elizabeth felt a chill go through her
as if she had been pierced with an
ice pick in her soul. “Oh my God.
What would Frank have said if he
knew I had put so much cash, the
money he had worked so hard
for… into a casino like the stock
market? He would be so mad….”
Elizabeth’s mind trailed off, as she
cried some more. How badly she
felt for herself, and for Frank.
The Answer Revealed Itself To
Her!
When Elizabeth sat down to read
the paper, she saw an article that
got her curious, and she sent for a
report that was commented on in
the article.
The article said there are alternatives to CD’s and mutual funds that
most people didn’t know about.
Alternatives that were low risk, but
had the benefit of a potential higher return…and tax benefits to boot!
Elizabeth called the toll-free,
recorded message and requested
her copy of this free report. She
was hoping this was the answer she
had been seeking.
A couple of days later, when she
opened the mail, she was excited to
see the free report had arrived.
Elizabeth made herself a cup of tea,
A D V E R T O R I A L
and sat down at their kitchen table
to take in all the information in the
report.
When she finished reading, she
felt comfortable for the first time
since Frank passed away. She had
finally learned the little known
alternative to CD's her banker and
broker had never told her.
FREE Report Reveals Little
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A copy of the FREE REPORT is
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not call NOW and get your free
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NOVEMBER 5, 2010
EDUCATION & ENRICHMENT
Director of
Education
Dupé Aleru
daleru@
bhcourier.com
Temple Emanuel Early C Center
Hosts Eighth Annual ‘Fall Ball’
Preschoolers enjoy a wagon ride
Stacy Kesner
Bo and Rio Austin
Owner of Animal Edventures Teresa Pollock
Preschoolers with a bunny
Children took a ride on festive wagons
HAYS FOR HORSES–“Oh what fun” the pre-k students of Good Shepherd Catholic School were thinking as they ran around the hay bales
at the pumpkin patch.
By Dupè Aleru
around the hay bales.
Director of Early ChildTeresa Pollock, owner of
hood Center, Stacy Kesner was Animal Edventures in San Ferthe host for Oct. 27 Fall Ball at nando Valley, brought her aniTemple Emanuel Early C Cen- mals (ducks, rosters, goats,
ter.
chickens
Abbi Waxand a pot
man, parent of
belly big)
three,
defor the petscribed
the
ting zoo.
event as “an
T h e
opportunity
yard was
for all the
filled with
classes to get
the sweet
togehter and
smell
of
have a massive
corn on the
jamboree.”
cob
and
The entire
popcorn.
yard was decStudents
orated in a
dressed up
“fall” theme
as
cowwith colorful
boys/girls
leaves,
hay
and
ran
stacks,
a Kids played with pigs and chickens at around the
the Fall Ball’s petting zoo.
p u m p k i n
playground
patch, a corn
as
music
field
and
decorative played in the background.
scrarecrows.
Parents volunteered as adThe Fall Ball events includ- ditional hosts for the event and
ed crafts and activites such as everyone came together to
corn husking, sliding into piles make the event a success for
of autumn leaves, painting the students at Temple Emanuel
pinecones and a wagon ride Early C Center.
I BELIEVE I CAN FLY–Pre-k student from Good Shepherd Catholic
School is enjoying the hay bales as she pretends to be an airplane.
Pre-k Students Enjoyed A Fun
Day At Shawn’s Pumpkin Patch
By Dupè Aleru
tour of the pumpkin patch.
What's a great way to start
The day of fun also includyour
Haled playing
loween festivamong the
ities?
Well
hay mazes, a
just ask Good
train
ride
Shepherd
around the
Catholic
pumpkin
School's Prepatch and a
k students.
petting zoo.
On Oct.
To end
27,
Good
the
event
Shepherd
with a bang,
Catholic
the students
School's Preunwound in
k class visited
a
bouncy
S h a w n ' s SAY CHEEZE!–Students from Good house before
P u m p k i n Shepherd Catholic School posed in their
trip
Patch in Cul- front of Shawn’s Pumpkin Patch.
back
to
ver City.
school.
The students were given a
PRESCHOOL
AND
KINDERS–Director Sheila Hogan
takes prospective parents of
BHPP on a tour of the school.
B H P P ’ s
Prospective
Parent Tour
THE WHEELS ON THE BUS–Students from Good Shepherd Catholic
School had fun sitting next to their buddies on the way to Shawn’s
Pumpkin Patch, in Culver City.
By Dupè Aleru
Preschool and kindergarten Director Sheila Hogan,
lead potential Beverly Hills
Presbyterian Preschool (BHPP)
future members on a prospective parent tour on Oct. 27.
Parents were given a tour
of BHPP’s facility, play area
and classrooms.
Topics of discussion included: teacher and student ratio, daily schedule, moring vs.
afternoon class and time
schedule, afterschool enrichment, daily cleaning routine,
school phonics program, integration of the arts (music and
dance) and chapel time.
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NOVEMBER 5, 2010
EDUCATION & ENRICHMENT
Director of
Education
Dupé Aleru
daleru@
bhcourier.com
Good Shepherd Catholic School New Directions in ‘Educational Reform’ For New
Roads School’s Center For Effective Learning
Held Its Prek-K Open House
By Dupè Aleru
On Oct. 28, from 1011a.m.,
Good
Shepherd
Catholic School (GSCS) held its
Prek-K open house for families
and the community at O’Ryan
Hall.
Terry Miller, principal, Pe-
tra Hellstrom, preschool director and Carol Kim, kindergarten
teacher lead the presentation
with an overview of the school
mission and the Prek-K programs.
Student Council was in
charge of the parent tour.
By Dupè Aleru
William Saunder, Ph.D., Asso- C4EL’s work is to translate the
New Roads School’s Cen- ciate Research Psychologist at latest research findings into efter for Effective Learning (C4EL) UCLA; and Joe Wise, MS, class- fective classroom practices at
hosted a symposium for eduNew Roads School.
cators, on Oct. 26 at the
The C4EL is the educaHerb Alpert Educational Viltion research program of
lage in Santa Monica, CA.
New Roads School in which
Many leaders in the field
its purpose is to explore inof education research and renovative ways to engage stuform gathered to discuss the
dents in the lifelong learning
developments in education
process. C4EL has collaboresearch that have implicarated with numerous educations for improving the nation reform and faculty detion’s schools while addressveloments, including work
ing the mandates of the fedwith the National Science
eral “race to the top.”
Foundation, NASA, UCLA’s
Guest speakers and feaHuman Perceptions Laboratured guests included Phillip
tory and Center for EmbedJ. Kellman, Ph.D., a Professor
ded Network Sensing.
and Chair of the Cognitive
“Our goal is to bring toROADS
SCHOOL–Vandana gether a powerful collaboraArea in the Department of NEW
Psychology at the University Thadani, assistant professor of psychology tion of experts in research
of California and Direcor of at Loyola Marymount University, was a and education to foster the
the UCLA Human Perception guest speaker at The Center for Effective implementation of innovaLaboratory;
Vandana Learning C4EL symposium on Oct. 26.
tive, effective practices leadThadani,
Ph.D.,
Assistant
ing to student success,” Joe
GUIDED READING–Part-time Kindergarten Teacher Jill Widmann lead
Professor
of
Psychology
at
Loyroom
teacher
for
thirty-seven
Wise
stated.
a group of kinders in a guided reading lesson during open house.
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Pacific Hills School recognized six out of thirty seniors
who earned the AP Scholar
Awards this year for their exceptional achievement on the
AP Exam. One student in particlular, earned the AP Award
with honors.
The College Board’s Advanced Placement Program
provides students with the opportunity to take college-level
courses while in high school
and earn college credit, ad-
vanced placement or both.
The College Board recognizes several levels of achievement based upon students’ performance. Students who qualify
for the AP Scholar Award completed three or more AP exams
with grades of three or higher.
The AP Scholars at Pacific
Hills School are: Kevin Brennan, Jay Fuentes, James Hildebrand,
Michael
Mulay,
Francesca Ricagni and Zachary
Topkis.
James Hildebrand also was
awarded for the AP Scholar’s
Honor Award by earning an average grade of 3.25 on all AP
exams taken, and grades of
three or higher on four of more
of these exams.
Pacific Hills offers challenging college preparatory
curriculum in an engaging and
interactive environment. Some
AP courses include: AP Calculus, English Literature, American Government and Spanish.
Charlene Liebau Talks ‘Athletics’ In College
The Courier’s College Admissions Editor Charlene Liebau is the former director of admissions
for CalTech and Occidental College. She is also a judge of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
By Charlene Liebau
Special To The Courier
Play ball? Swim? Run?
Want to continue in college?
At a competitive level? If so,
lots to think about and lots to
consider.
Participation in athletics
can be an important activity in
high school. It helps a student
learn time management skills,
to be a team member, to confront disappointment and to
enjoy the rewards of hard
work.
In addition, participation
in athletics can be a factor in
choosing a college.
First, an athlete needs to
decide whether or not to continue with his/her sport in college and at what level.
At the college level the
question is: How much time is
the student willing to devote to
his/her sport? At the intercollegiate level the expectation for
time commitment is much
greater than at the high school
level–in addition to game time,
there is practice time and training both during and off-season.
Second, a student must
question: What is the commitment to athletics in terms of
level of competition? Both factors–amount of time required
and
the
level
of
competition–are starting points
for researching possible college
choices.
Finally, once the decision
is made to include athletic participation as a priority in selecting a college, the student
should have a candid talk with
his/her high school coach.
What are the student’s athletic
strengths and weaknesses?
What level of competition
seems appropriate and realistic?
The next step is up to the
student-to contact coaches at
colleges of interest. Early contact can be made by attending
summer sports camps or clinics.
During the junior and senior years in high school, it is
best to contact coaches directly
by phone, email, or letter. The
student should be prepared to
express an interest in the college, provide information
about his/her academic course
of study, grades received, along
with records of athletic performance and achievement.
In closing, the high school
coach can be the student’s best
ally in making the initial contact with college coaches.
Women's Guild CedarsSinai Medical Center honored
longtime supporters Vera and
Paul Guerin at "A Touch of
Country" gala, at the Baker
Hangar in Santa Monica. The
gala was chaired by Brenda Fritz
and Caryl Golden and featured
a special musical performance
by Wynonna Judd.
Over many years of leadership and giving, the Guerins
have played a vital role in
Cedars-Sinai's development as a
top-tier healthcare institution
that advances medicine through
innovative patient care and
research. Vera is a member of
Cedars’ board of directors and
former president of the
Women's Guild. Paul is a member of Cedars-Sinai board of
governors and has served on the
Executive Committee.
The Guerins have sustained
a strong family tradition of philanthropy demonstrating a deep
commitment to causes related
to medicine, education, Judaism
and Israel. Their commitment
to Cedars-Sinai fulfills a pledge
made by Vera's father, Nathan
Shapell to fund the pioneering
work of cardiologist P.K. Shah,
MD. The Guerins have also
made a major contribution to
the field of lung disease by
donating $5 million to lead the
campaign to raise $20 million
to create the Women's Guild
Lung Institute. This gift endowed
the Vera and Paul Guerin Chair
in pulmonary disease research.
To date, Women's Guild
members have raised more than
$50 million for Cedars-Sinai
since being founded in 1957.
******
Nearly
100
shoppers
showed up at Fendi to support
Lupus LA. The event was a kick
off to the 8th annual Hollywood
Bag Ladies luncheon planned
for Nov. 16 at The Beverly
Wilshire.
Fendi, fashion sponsor for
the event, served Veuve Cliquot
champagne and guests were
treated to delicious hors d'oeuvres. One lucky shopper won a
$1,000 gift certificate.
Lupus LA received 10 percent of the proceeds as well as
10 percent off their purchases.
The evening was hosted by Kelly Cook from Bag Snob.com,
Janice Wallace and Michelle
Kaye.
A crowd of 600 is expected for the upcoming luncheon,
which will be chaired by Carrie
Brillstein and Mandana Dayani.
Woman of Achievement honorees include Rachel Zoe and
Toni Braxton. There will be
some 300 donated handbags
from famous fashion houses as
well as vintage bags from the
closets of celebrities. The Fendi
fashion show will cap off the
day's festivities. For tickets, call
323-904-4400.
******
In Association of Fundrais-
ing Professionals (greater
L.A. chapter), a nonprofit
providing education and
support to promote ethica,
effective fundraising practices, will honor Tina and
Rick Caruso (Para Los Ninos) as “Philanthropists of
the Year.”
Carol and Doug Mancino (Children's Burn Foundation) receive the Legacy
award; Mindy and Gene
KICKOFF–More
Stein (Verdugo Hills Hospi- LUPUS
than
100
showed
up at Fendi
tal Foundation) the Spirit of
Dedication award; and Lee on Rodeo Drive for a day of
and
Mickey
Segal shopping and promote Lupus
(Methodist Hospital) the L.A.’s upcoming Bag Lady
Spirit of Inspiration award at luncheon Nov. 16 at The
the group’s 25th anniversary Beverly Wilshire. Above (from
“National
Philanthropy left): Linda Thompson, Linda
Day” awards luncheon Nov. David and Jackie Rahn.
9, at The Beverly Hilton.
Below: Terri Kaplan, Kathy
“I Am A Philanthropist” Gallagher and Michelle Kaye.
is the theme of the afternoon
celebration hosted by Leeza Photos by Tiffany Rose
Gibbons. Honorary luncheon chairs are Wallis Annenberg, publicist Carl Terzian, and
publisherMatt Toledo, of the Los
Angeles Business Journal.
Call 714-771-3685 or [email protected].
COUNTRY
GALA–
The
Women’s Guild
of Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center
hosted
its
“Touch
of
Country” gala
and
honored
Vera and Paul
Guerin
(left),
who are pictured with with
the guild’s president,
Lorette
G r o s s . B e l o w,
country music
star Wynonna
Judd (center)is
flanked by gala
chairs
Caryl
Golden
(left)
and
Brenda
Fritz. Photos
by Vince Bucci
19
NOVEMBER 5, 2010
CAREER
(Continued from page 4)
lives,” said Weitz. “From the
advanced mobile devices
many of us use, to the ubiquity of networks to stay connected, to the connections you
have to other people online
and
your
expressed
interests–technology is rapidly
evolving to truly be a personal
agent that everyone can afford.”
Weitz has been at Microsoft for 14 years in a variety
of roles, but has recently
moved full time into Bing. He
began his career as a product
manager, admits honestly (and
quite modestly) that a degree
of the favorable turns in his
professional life can be attributed to sheer luck.
“People say you make
your own luck and to an extent this is true, but you can't
ever underestimate the ability
for a chance meeting you happened to stroll into to change
the trajectory of your career. In
CYBERBULLY
child relationship to foster an
open line of communication
• Establish and reinforce
family rules related to online
usage and communication
• Educate yourself on the
types of technologies children
are using
my case, having a technical
background enables me to
work with people at all levels
of the organization and have a
modicum of credibility when
reviewing a new feature, looking at engagement data, or understanding how to explain it
to our huge global audience.
This ability was noticed in a
couple of key meetings here at
Microsoft in other roles and
voila–here I am.”
As an inspiring and
prominent leader both in the
technology industry and in the
non-profit sector (he does significant work for an organization called REDU), he is clearly a mover-and-shaker of his
generation. When asked for
the single best advice he
would give Professional Pursuits readers, Weitz offered the
following:
“Don't settle for being
mediocre. Don't compromise
on your vision. Know there is
almost always someone as
crazy as you out there who
will want to work with you to
• Engage your child’s
school in instances of cyberbullying.
“If you think your child is
being cyberbullied and you
want the school’s help to hold
a child accountable or resolve
the issue, you really need to
establish evidence that proves
(the instances of cyberbullying) are disruptive in the class-
try and help you realize your
then collective vision. Find
that person or group who
shares your common passion
and go change the world.
Even if you don't, you'll likely
make progress on which
someone else may build.”
To read more Professional
Pursuits
articles,
visit
alexbanayan.com/articles.
CAMERAS
cameras is not popular with
some people,” Stolarz said.
“But we have seen a significant reduction in the number of
people running stop signs since
the cameras were installed.
Commuter traffic has been greatly reduced. Cars have slowed
down and the roads are safer to
walk on. We don’t think it is just
a coincidence, the cameras
work.”
Since the cameras were
introduced in July 2007, Stolarz
said there had been an 85 percent reduction of incidents in
Franklin Canyon.
“While we have heard that
some people do not support the
cameras, the majority of the
complaints are by people who
have been caught running stop
signs,” she said.
“In fact, many, many park
users are happy to see better
enforcement at these stops signs
which have been at these locations for many years.”
What do you think? Email
[email protected].
Guest columnist and USC student Alex Banayan is writing a
monthly column for The
Courier. Banayan is exploring
the many career paths available through interviews with
top level executives in various L.A. Youth Orchestra Sets Up At Saban
industries, offering college stugram or have experienced major
dents invaluable advice in By Brenton Garen
The
Los
Angeles
Youth
funding cuts, Los Angeles Youth
how to successfully transition
Orchestra begins its inaugural Orchestra helps bridge the gap
from college to career.
season at its new location in for youth to participate in a rich
Beverly Hills starting Nov. 21.
music experience that may no
It will present a special per- long exist in their schools,”
formance of Stories From My Steinberg said.
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are, and then working with the resented students from more alumni have gone on to continchildren.”
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in a commercial zone if that
building has existing medical
use and parking for the additional medical use that meets
the zoning code.
The exemption may be
used in commercial areas citywide but a Minor Accommodation permit is required for exemption applications in the
pedestrian-oriented area. Under the exemption, medical use
is not permitted on the ground
floor in the pedestrian-oriented
area (the business triangle and
a section of South Beverly Drive); outside of the pedestrianoriented area, medical use is
permitted on the ground floor
so long as it is not within the
first forty feet of the front of the
building. Optometrists with a
minimal amount of non-retail
space were reclassified as a retail use in the Code and would
be allowed on the ground floor
in all commercial areas.
The medical use overlay
zone allows for a property
owner to apply to the City to
TRIAL
creation of Christiansen’s contracts and oversaw the initial
work completed under the $90
million Measure K bond, between 2004 and 2008.
According to Kaufler, in
Hubbard’s deposition, he mentions frequent compliments
Christiansen and her company
received from the then-sitting
Board of Education and district
staff. “Then this lawsuit gets
filed and she gets publicly
smeared,” Kaufler said. “That’s
why this case is frivolous.”
Christiansen is currently
suing the district for $16 million after termination of her
contract in 2009. Christiansen
was slated to oversee the con-
have the City's proposed new
medical use overlay zone apply to his/her property if that
property is in a commercial
zone that currently allows
medical use. Application of the
overlay zone to a specific property would be approved by the
City Council.
The medical use overlay
zone allows medical use on the
property with a Planned Development Permit that requires the
proposed project to meet objectives (findings) that address
the impacts of medical uses,
including intrusion of parking
and other activity associated
with medical uses into nearby
residential areas.
Medical use is not permitted on the ground floor in the
overlay zone unless the City
Council finds, based on substantial evidence, that the proposed location is not pedestrian-oriented and is unlikely to
become pedestrian-oriented in
the future.
The proposed project in
the Medical Use Overlay Zone
must provide a public benefit
and must meet existing Zoning
Code development standards.
Senior Planner Michelle
McGrath said the Planning
Commission draft ordinance
will be on the agenda for approval at the City Council's
Nov. 30 meeting.
Councilmember
John
Mirisch is supportive of the
measure.
“Considering that over
twenty-one percent of our limited commercial office space is
occupied by medical uses (by
contrast, the figure in L.A. is
around five percent) and considering the potential negative
impacts that additional medical could cause, I think the
Planning Commission's recommendation of raising the
thresholds for further medical
projects and adding an element
of discretion sounds like a sensible solution to the entire issue,” Mirisch said.
“Of course, I'll have to
look at their full recommendation in much greater detail
when it formally comes to the
council at the end of the month
before being able to comment
on any specifics.”
struction and program management associated with the $334
million Measure E bond passed
by voters in 2008. Christiansen
stood to earn up to $20 million
from the project. The district is
countersuing for $4 million
plus legal fees, claiming default
of contract and gross conflicts
of interest.
Kaufler, who deposed the
witnesses over the past two
months, said both Hubbard
and McVeigh testified in favor
of Christiansen. Also deposed
were former Superintendent of
Business Services Cheryl
Plotkin, the lawyers that created the contracts between the
district and Christiansen, as
well as current BHUSD Board
of Education member Brian
Goldberg. There were no other
current or former Board of Education members deposed by
the plaintiffs, citing inability
due to restrictions of the Brown
Act.
“The thing that is really offensive to our side is that Karen
did really great work for (the
district),” said Kaufler. “We
have numerous emails complementing her. And not only do
they terminate her, but they
smear her. And now she is
broke.”
The district filed a request
for summary judgment in October, but was denied, a fact
that Kaufler says supports
Christiansen’s case further.
Calls to the district’s attorney were not returned by press
time. The matter is scheduled
to go to trial Dec. 7.
Horace Mann Supports Reading With Literacy Night
By Amanda Peabody
Horace Mann School will
host a family event encouraging fun and reading Nov. 10
from 6:30-8 p.m. in the
school’s cafeteria.
Literacy Night will find
families with children of all
reading levels and ages playing
games, participating in skits
and improvisational activities,
doing arts and crafts and playing the STAR Jeopardy game.
The evening will also
launch the Scholastic Bookfair,
beginning at 5:30 p.m.
Literacy Night activities
are free, thanks to the Horace
Mann Parent Teacher Organization. For information, call
310-551-5104.
ADL HONOREES–The ADL
dinner celebration on Dec. 7
at The Beverly Hilton will honor Joyce Eisenberg-Keefer
and Mel Keefer (pictured)
and Peter Schwartz. Keynote
speaker is Mara Liasson of
NPR and Fox News Sunday.
Actor Hal Linden will emcee
and there will be special musical presentations by The
New Directions Veterans
Choir (America’s Got Talent)
and singer/songwriter Noa
Dori. Honorary dinner chairs
are Joyce and Stanley Black
and Janine and Peter Lowy.
The evening will be chaired
by Barbara and Tom Leanse
and Harriet and Steven
Nichols. For reservations, call
310-446-4264 or to purchase
tickets,
go
to
www.
adl.org/2010annualdinner.
Human Relations
Reappointment
By Adam Popescu
Human Relations Commissioner Rochelle Ginsburg has been recommended for reappointment to a
second four year term by
City Council liaisons: ViceMayor Barry Brucker and
Councilmember
Nancy
Krasne.
Ginsburg's first term expires Nov. 19. In 21 meetings from Nov. 2008
through October of this year,
Ginsburg has missed only
one meeting.
–[email protected]
BOW WOW
Leiber.
The adoption drive was
organized by The Amanda
Foundation, a Beverly Hills
nonprofit that rescues dogs and
cats from shelters, and hosted
by Two Rodeo and the merchants of Via Rodeo.
The organization held its
5th annual Bow Wow Beverly
Hills ‘Whodunnit?’ fundraiser
last Friday with about 400
attendees, which raised more
than $40,000 and kick-started
the weekend long adoption
drive.
President Teri Austin said
12 dogs had been adopted
from the weekend long event
and six more adoptions were
pending
following
home
21
checks for the dogs.
“When you think that our
little pound puppies end up in
the most well known street
address in the world, it's pretty
amazing to think they get the
opportunity to be adopted out
of Rodeo Drive,” Austin said.
“The puppies were dressed
as pumpkins, pirates, fairies
and lady bugs and everything
but dogs, they were so cute.”
The dogs–aged between
16-weeks and 13-years–came
from the most crowded shelters
with the highest kill rates in Los
Angeles–South Central, East
Valley and North Central shelters.
For further information on
The Amanda Foundation and
how you can help donate, visit
www.theamandafoundation.or
g.
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NOVEMBER 5, 2010
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
Bone Cancer Research Institute Fundraiser Sunday At Local Gallery
help the institute’s ongoing
research where it conducts preclinical testing of drugs. “We try
to use FDA-approved drugs in
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with others or in early development,” Berenson said. “We
want to develop new drugs and
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While his is not the only
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The clinic also has the ability to grow patient-specific
tumors in mice and then try different treatments to see what
works.
It is estimated that more
than 1 million people are living
with multiple myeloma.
Tickets for the benefit,
which includes art appreciation, an auction, wine and hors
d’ooeuvres, are $75 and available online at www.imbcr.org.
Strides have been made so
that today’s survival rate is 11
years. Ten years ago it was
three.
Another aspect of the institute, Berenson likes is the
“rapidity.” With the help of the
clinic next to the institute, they
can do a clinical trial of a drug,
quickly translate the lab work ,
and test the drug in patients.
“It’s been great to do that,”
Berenson said.
Names In The News...
LeSage Marks
20 Years In City
Dr. Brian LeSage, celebrated his anniversary of two
decades of dentistry in Beverly
Hills and a write-up in The New
York Times at a party hosted at
his offices on Roxbury Drive.
A member of the American
Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry,
Dr. LeSage has received appointments and awards for cosmetic dentistry and continuing
education. In 2009, Dr. LeSage
was honored with the Excellence in Cosmetic Dental
Education Award—“Educator of
the Year” by the AACD.
He is a member of the
American Academy of Esthetic
Dentistry and his work drew the
attention of the Times. A
reporter tracked LeSage to
Europe, where he was lecturing
at the international meeting for
the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry in London.
A member of the UCLA
Center for Esthetic Dentistry faculty, LeSage was asked to discuss the the trend for achieving
less than
perfect
teeth.
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night of his
celebrat i o n ,
LeSage and
his
wife,
Dr.
Afsaneh
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had been his patients since the
the practice opened. He is a
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the University of Maryland,
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Attendees included producer Robert Hitzig and wife Karen
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More than 150-well wishers
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and died.
“It’s less common than
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and Bone Cancer Research’s
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at the Andrew Weiss Gallery,
179 S. Beverly Dr.
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middle and high school. In college in
Taipei his weekly part-time job was playing in the Taiwan Television Orchestra.
“It payed well,” Chen says. He was also
a member of first violin section in the
Taipei Municipal Orchestra
Since there was no music department at Taiwan’s National University
where he studied medicine, he gathered
other string players and eventually wind
players to form a chamber orchestra,
where he served as concert master.
But the choice of a music career
over medicine has never been a tough
one for Chen. “You don’t have to be a
professional to enjoy music.”
After years of playing at various
sites, the LADSO will inaugurate its new
artistic home this season—The Ebell of
Los Angeles.
The 8 p.m., Nov. 12 concert will be
in the 1927 Hancock Park building’s
Grand Lounge.
“It’s not an auditorium,” said Chen.
“It’s like we’re sitting in a well-appointed
living room. It’s very homey.”
The orchestra has always supported
local composers and the concert will see
the world premiere of Karim Elhahmoudi’s Ancient Dreams, a piece commissioned by the LADSO
“You’ve got to work with new
music,” says Chen. “And it’s great to
work with the composer and go through
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join; as long as you like playing music.”
For Chen, being a doctor and musician is a family tradition. In Taiwan,
while his mother played the piano, his
father, an opthamologist, played the violin.
He started with the piano, but his
sister played so well, that at 6, he
switched to violin, starting with a childsize version. “When I got big enough to
hold it; my father said I could have his
violin. It’s the one I still play; and it’s very
special to me.”
Chen moved to Beverly Hills in
1985 and his sons graduated from
BHHS—Jason in 1994 and Greg in
1996.
For Chen, staff anesthesiologist at
the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in
Westwood, playing the violin has always
been a way to “feel good about myself
and life in general.
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THIS WEEK’S BIRTHDAYS
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ASTROLOGY
by Holiday Mathis
Mitchell Dawson
Ellyn Snowden
Leonardo DiCaprio
Demi Moore
BIRTHDAY GREETINGS—Celebrating birthdays are Bryan Adams, Art Garfunkel, Andrea McArdle,
Tatum O’Neal, Sam Shepard and Elke Sommer (Nov 5); Ellyn Snowden (Nov 6); Joni Mitchell and Billy
Graham (Nov. 7); Benjamin King, Mitchell Dawson, Mary Hart, Patty Paige, Bonnie Raitt and Morley
Safer (Nov. 8); Bud Heumann and Charles Robinson (Nov. 9); Donna Fargo, Ann Reinking and Sinbad
(Nov. 10); Kate Jolson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Demi Moore, and Marc Summers (Nov. 11).
FRANCES ALLEN
Desert Roundup
was not necessarily a bad
thing.
As for me, I went as Marie
Antoinette, but the pre-guillotine Marie; I carried a cupcake
so the peasants could eat cake.
Diversity has alside lawn.
ways been a hallThis year armark of the Desert
riving guests, each
lifestyle, where “live
holding exclusive,
and let live” are bynon-transferable
words. But, for one
invites, were met
day a year, on All
in the estate’s foreHollows Eve, it
court by a group
seems as if the San
of break-dancing
Andreas
Fault,
ghouls in full coswhich is the very actume and body
tive
earthquakepaint. Then it was
maker underneath
through the fogour feet, gives a
shrouded
enslight shrug or two
trance and on to a
and the weirdest
wide expanse of
mix of creeps, Chef Rita del Taco
food, drink, a
ghosts and geeks
Gloria Greer five-piece band,
crawl out from
dance floor and
smoked-filled fissures and mi- that most compelling activity:
grate to Houston South, the Palm people watching.
Springs estate of Jim and Jackie
From Village People lookLee Houston, for the annual alikes, to foreign potentates,
Halloween party known as from a quartet of waddling pen- Stephen Browning, Margie
“Howling With The Houstons” guins to a witch with a remote Victor, and Pam Price
where each year, super-creative controlled broomstick, the crePhotos by Sherman Fridman
party planner Sherri Kelly cre- ativity was endless, rendering
******
ates a surreal experience on the some of the guests unidentifiable
Guess who’s coming to
Houstons normally manicured which, under the circumstances, din-ner could become the
catch phrase of the Desert
Town Hall-Indian Wells lecture
series, which begins next Feb.
15 with Fareed Zakaria, editor
of Time magazine and CNN
host.
Following Zakaria on Mar.
7, will be George W. Bush,
marking a return to the Desert
for the 43rd president of the
United States who was last
here in April 2006 on a campaign stop. Once again, G.W.
follows in his father’s footsteps.
George H.W. Bush, the country’s 41st president, who addressed the speakers’ series in
1994, and again in 1999.
Jeannette Walls, a journalist and best-selling author of
The Glass Castle is given the
impossible task of following
President Bush on Mar. 18. Her
talk is expected to address the
hardships of being homeless as
a youth, which is also the subject of her best-selling book.
Former N.Y. Knicks basketball player and three-term U.S.
Sen. Bill Bradley, will close out
the series on Apr. 7.
Packages for the entire series are sold-out, but tickets for
individual dates go on sale Jan.
4. Call 760-416-3400.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAY (Nov. 5). You'll be transforming your life, and
you'll witness others change for the better right along with you. Love,
friendship and fun are featured this month. You'll help your family in a
big way in December. A financial win happens in January. February is
your chance to impress and win fans. May brings an exotic excursion.
Leo and Aries people adore you.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You can tell when a person is not fully listening, understanding or connecting with you. Stop and consider a different approach. Through trial and error, you'll finally figure out how to
get through to someone.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Arguments can go on without you,
and you won't feel a strong need to weigh in on one side or the other.
Your neutrality helps you stay open to communication and remain helpful to all.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You are smart to admit your mistakes
when pressed and even smarter not to offer them up willy-nilly when
there's no reason to do so. Success will have a lot to do with knowing
when to stay quiet.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You have faith in yourself, and you trust
life. Because of this, you will be able to sustain your power during challenges. Your inner essence is strong, and that's what's important.
PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20). Helping someone else will help you. Your selfesteem rises with every kind action. Your talent grows and you radiate
confidence, all because you treat others so well.
ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19). There is a point at which the time you spend
doing a task will not pay off. Consider the law of diminishing returns.
When the work is good enough, that's the time to stop.
TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20). You bring a sense of stability to your people.
Everyone can rest assured that you have the important things covered,
and a few of the key details, too. That's why they feel secure around you.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Taking yourself too seriously is a real danger.
You have terrific instincts, and there's no reason to second-guess your
choices. So just relax and trust yourself.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). You have a demanding person inside you, directing you at every turn to try harder, be bigger and strive for more. Tell
that person to pipe down. You can do your best without being so hard on
yourself.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). There are no "shoulds." You are either doing
something or you're not doing it. Lose the worry and regret. Get comfortable with your choices. Accept them, or do something else.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You have strong conceptual skills and will
come up with a winning plan to sell an idea or move a business forward
in some way. Apply this talent to your personal life, too.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). It's safe to give feedback to anyone who asks
for it, but don't chime in if you're not asked -- that will only lead to trouble. You are more truthful than some people can handle.
CONNIE MARTINSON
Talks Books
Hats off to Julie Robinson and
Tyson Cornell and the Beverly
Hills Public Library for an unforgettable event and the beginning
of an annual event for book
lovers. It began with an open to
the public event at the Montage
Park which was a chance to buy
books and talk to the authors. Actually the whole weekend was an
opportunity to talk and ask the authors questions.
On Saturday I moderated the
History and Fiction event at Porto Via with Gin Phillips and
Tatjiana Soli.
Phillips’ book, The Well And
The Mine, takes place in Alabama
in the 30s depression. The father,
Albert, works in the mines, he is a
wonderful character in a segregated world where black and white
work together underground but
stand in different lines to be paid.
He is friends with a black man
who refuses his invitation to sit
down to dinner, knowing that the
KKK would make life difficult for
Albert and his family, but will sit
on the porch for a cup of coffee.
Phillips hinges the continuing
story on the two daughters of the
family seeing a woman toss a
baby down the well in the backyard. The baby was dead before
being dropped but the girls, like
Nancy Drew pursue the identity
of the woman.
Soli’s The Lotus Eaters tells
the story of the photographers in
Vietnam and their need to be embedded with the troops in order to
get that one perfect photo. They
are in Saigon as the city falls to
the Viet Cong and the hysteria to
get on the roof of the American
Embassy for the helicopter escape
is palbable. Tatjiana then goes
back in time to tell how the characters got there. Helen was a
competent photographer who
falls in love with Sam Darrow, the
Robert Capa leading man of the
photographers. He is the one who
takes chances. He also has a wife
and child back in Westchester,
NY. Wartime gives permission
for Helen and Sam to live together. There is a third person in their
triangle named Linh, a Vietnamese whose story reveals the
hell of war.
I found The Lotus Eaters one
of the best novels this year.
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BID
to the proposal.
Under the Chamber's BID,
the maximum annual fee
would be $400 for less than 10
percent of businesses, $250 for
most businesses, and $25 for
remaining businesses with limited gross receipts, according
to the Chamber's proposal. The
BID will be levied on top of the
annual business license fee,
and seeks to free the Chamber
from its dependence on City
Council funding.
Not everyone is satisfied
with the plan, with both City
staff and local businesses concerned.
ELECTION
State Controller John Chiang
received 5,291 votes, while
Tony Strickland received 3,518
votes.
Treasurer Bill Lockyer received 5,563 votes to Mimi
Walters’ 3,396 votes.
John Noguez beat out John
Wong for state assessor, receiving 2,969 votes, less than
Wong's 2,995 votes.
The controversial proposition to legalize marijuana,
prop. 19, lost overall, but received majority support in the
City, with 5,294 “yes” votes to
4,370 “no” votes.
Proposition 20, which
sought redistricting, received
Councilmember
John
Mirisch does not support the
proposal. “From what I understand, the Chamber's ‘idea’
would somehow go through
the City, but it would have to
be voted upon by all the businesses,” Mirisch said. “What is
particularly concerning is an
option they're looking at
whereby the BID wouldn't be
established unless 50 percent
plus one of the businesses voted against the project. That
doesn't make a lot of sense to
me. As I've said to the Chamber, it's the businesses who
need to decide if they want a
BID.”
Vice-Mayor Barry Brucker
is also unsupportive of the
chamber's proposal, and remains unconvinced that this is
the right way to sustain their
activities.
“On the surface I am very
uncomfortable with taxing
without any measurable deliverables or accountability
benchmarks,” Brucker said. “In
addition, I think that the merchants would be better served
joining a BID where they knew
that the monies were going toward specific needs such as
parking upgrades, infrastructure, sidewalk repair, holiday
decorations or other shopping
enhanced aesthetic features.”
Brucker also brought to
light the fact that new proliferation of local merchant organi-
zations like Canon Drive,
SoBEV, Brighton Way Merchants and the Rodeo Drive
Committee could compromise
BID funding.
In addition, local businesses are largely in the dark over
this proposal.
Horia Badju, the sales
manager of Rodeo Drive's Lacoste store, who learned of the
proposal after speaking with
The Courier, was concerned
about the fee, given the struggling economy, noting that this
could especially hurt small
businesses. “I haven't heard
about it,” Badju stated. “It's not
good considering the economy
right now.”
Gregory Borel, Christian
Dior's department manager of
leather goods was also concerned about the proposal after
speaking with The Courier. “It
could hurt business,” Borel
said.
Mirisch highlighted the
main point of contention: the
value this new fee will have for
local businesses.“If they want
to attract the support of businesses, they [Chamber] will
have to focus on providing
their members with value-formoney and will need to convince their members and potential members that they have
direction, accountability and
goals which benefit their members and the community,”
Mirisch said.
5,385 “yes” votes, and 3,391
“no” votes, and won statewide.
Proposition 21, providing
state parks with funding as part
of a vehicle surcharge, lost
statewide, receiving a narrow
“yes” margin in the City, with
4,679 to 4,619 “no” votes.
Proposition 22, a tax revenue use item, received overall
state voter approval, along with
Beverly Hills' support, with
4,704 “yes” votes to 4,176
“no” votes.
Proposition 23, a plan to
curtail global warming laws,
lost statewide, with the City
following suit with 6,538 “no”
votes compared to 2,748 “yes”
votes.
Proposition 24, a measure
to help businesses deduct loss-
es, failed to gain statewide or
City support, receiving 5,299
“no” votes to 3,624 “yes”
votes.
Proposition 25, a budget
vote some have said would allow politicians to raise taxes
with limited restrictions, was
passed statewide, with 5,398
“yes” votes and 3,617 “no”
votes in the City.
Proposition 26, providing
two-thirds state levies lost
statewide and in the City, with
4,977 “no” votes, compared to
3,882 “yes” votes.
Proposition 27, an attempt
to eliminate redistricting, lost
statewide and in the City, with
5,387 “no” votes and 3,309
“yes” votes.
SCARPETTA
Conant. “I’m really excited to
be a part of it and especially in
a setting as beautiful as Montage Beverly Hills. Becoming
acquainted with
the local
farmers
and markets will
be a big
priority. I
recognize
them to
be
the
best in the
country.”
Scarpetta will be open daily for lunch and dinner.
For reservations (highly
recommended, call 310-8607970.
original, while Miami enjoys a
four-star
billing
from The
Miami
Herald ),
Los Angeles, or
namely
Beverly
Hills,
was the
natural
location
for his
first West Coast brick and mortar.
“The food scene in Los Angeles is better than ever,” said
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HKS Architects
Names Scott Hunter
Director Of BH Office
WOMEN’S PANEL–The Caucus for Producers, Writers & Directors,
along with Emerson College, Women in Film, Alliance of Women
Directors and NATPE hosted a panel at The Beverly Hills Hotel.
Standing (from left): Caucus Chair Dennis Doty; Cynthia Littleton; producer Loreen Arbus; Event co-chair Al Fisher; Holly Sorensen, creator
of Make It Or Break It; and Event co-chair Chuck Fries. Seated (from
left): Jane Fleming, Kathe Kollwitz of The Guerilla Girls activist group;
and Millicent Shelton of 30 Rock.
Scott Hunter has been
named principal and director of
its 9441 W. Olympic Blvd.
office, the hub of its Los
Angeles operations.
The Los
Angeles
native is a
graduate of
UC Berkeley
and received
his masters
from
Harvard.
He
most recently led the
design team on the transformation of UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion.
His office has designed
Montage Beverly Hills and The
Century condominimum tower
in Century City plus projects at
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
OPERATION: CHILDREN FUNDRAISER–Holding its annual benefit
Operation:Children presented the inaugural “Jane Russell” award to
actor Willie Garson with his adopted son Nathan (left) presented by
Jane Russell; above right: event chair Linda Holcombe (left) and
Marilyn Watson-Perry, first vice president); below right: Danny Doyle
(left), named the group’s “Man of the Year,” and Jeff Barry, emcee.
Photos by Traude Winik
St. John Boutique To
Host Jeffrey Benefit
ASYM AWARDS–At the Beverly Hills-based American Society of Young
Musicians awards held at The Luxe Bel-Air are (from left): Izzy
Chait(Musician Advocate award); George Brown of Kool And The Gang(Best Legend Band award); Jarvee Hutcherson, national ASYM president;, Engelbert Humperdinck (Music Legend award); David Longoria
(All That Jazz award), Vincent di Pasquale (Favorite Dance Mix
Innovator award); and Dick Michaels, ASYM chairman. Radio personalPhoto by Jeff Knight
ity Sam Phillips (in front) was the emcee.
St. John Boutique, 9536
Wilshire Blvd., will host The
Jeffrey Foundation’s annual holiday membership ea on
Tuesday, Nov. 23, from 3 to 6
p.m. A percentage of sales that
day will be donated to the foundation’s scholarship fund.
This exclusive shopping
experience is for members only.
For information on becoming a
Circle of Love member or to
RSVP, call 323-965-7536, ext.
HOSTESSES–Three local women played hostess to a group at 22 or e-mail mweigh@thejefMaggiano’s Restaurant in The Grove. From left: Gloria Levishon, Marci freyfoundation.com
Rosner and Marci Landis.
Photo by Shana Forman
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is/are doing business as: 1) DERMATOLOGY RESEARCH CENTERS 2)
PACIFIC DERMATOLOGY RESEARCH
2021 Santa Monica Blvd. #245E, Santa
Monica, CA 90404; David Michael
Stoll M.D. 422 S. Las Palmas Ave., Los
Angeles, CA 90020; Elyse Jennifer
Stoll 422 S. Las Palmas Ave., Los
Angeles, CA 90020; The business is
conducted by: A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP, registrant(s) has begun to
transact business under the name(s)
listed herein October 2007: Elyse
Jennifer Stoll; Statement is filed with
the County of Los Angeles: October 12,
2010; Published: October 15, 22, 29,
November 05, 2010 LACC N/C
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Camden Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90210;
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conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact
business under the name(s) listed
herein: Lynne Praver; Statement is
filed with the County of Los Angeles:
October 07, 2010; Published: October
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West Hollywood, CA 90046; Hannibal
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West Hollywood, CA 90046; The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION, registrant(s) has begun to
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9355 Ruffner Ave., North Hills, CA
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A CORPORATION, registrant(s) has
NOT begun to transact business
under the name(s) listed herein:
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2010; Published: October 15, 22, 29,
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Beverly Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90212;
Piran Zarifian 11642 Kiowa Ave. #5,
Los Angeles, CA 90043; The business
is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL,
registrant(s) has NOT begun to
transact business under the
name(s) listed herein: Piran
Zarifian; Statement is filed with the
County of Los Angeles: October 13,
2010; Published: October 22, 29,
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Robertson Blvd. #100, Culver City, CA
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Robertson Blvd. #100, Culver City, CA
90232; The business is conducted by:
A CORPORATION, registrant(s) has
begun to transact business under
the name(s) listed herein October
2000: James Lee, CFO; Statement is
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CLEANERS 115 N. Fairfax Ave., Los
Angeles, CA 90036; Wasfy Bishay
8579 Pickford St., Los Angeles, CA
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the name(s) listed herein October
15, 2000: Wasfy Bishay; Statement
is filed with the County of Los Angeles:
22, 29, November 05, 12, 2010
LACC N/C
———
is/are doing business as: POWER
AIR AND FIRE 626 N. Detroit St., Los
Angeles, CA 90036; Itzhak Bokobzha
626 N. Detroit St., Los Angeles, CA
Itzhak Bokobzha; Statement is filed
with the County of Los Angeles:
22, 29, November 05, 12, 2010
LACC N/C
———
1) MY
FUTURE JOB 2) MYFUTUREJOB.NET
435 N. Oakhurst Dr., Beverly Hills, CA
90210; Candice Setareh 435 N.
Oakhurst Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90210;
The business is conducted by: AN
INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has NOT
the name(s) listed herein: Candice
Setareh; Statement is filed with the
County of Los Angeles: October 19,
2010; Published: October 22, 29,
November 05, 12, 2010 LACC N/C
———
is/are doing business as: 1) DESIGN
HANDLERS
2)
DESIGN
HANDLERS.COM 2815 Coldwater
Canyon Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90210;
Karen Rochelle Mehlman 2815
Coldwater Canyon Dr., Beverly Hills,
CA 90210; Gary Leod Mehlman 2815
Coldwater Canyon Dr., Beverly Hills,
CA 90210; The business is conducted
by: A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP, registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the name(s) listed herein October 12, 2010: Karen
Rochelle Mehlman; Statement is
22, 29, November 05, 12, 2010
LACC N/C
———
P&J
EUROPEAN TAILORING 2370
Westwood Blvd. #G, Los Angeles, CA
90064; Pinar F. Demir 1000 S. Holt
Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90035; Serdar
M. Demir 1000 S. Holt Ave. Los
conducted by: CO-PARTNERS, registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the name(s) listed herein December 06, 2005: Pinar F.
Demir, General Partner; Statement
is filed with the County of Los
Angeles: October 22, 2010;
Published: October 29, November
05, 12, 19, 2010 LACC N/C
———
STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT USE
OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 05
2980137 The following person(s)
has/have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: P & J TAILORING 2370 Westwood Blvd. #G, Los
Angeles, CA 90064; The fictitious
business name referred to above was
filed on (date): December 06, 2005
in the county of Los Angeles; Pinar F.
Demir 825 S. Detroit St., Los
Angeles, CA 90036; Jose L. Mendoza
129 East Ave. #44, Los Angeles, CA
90031; Serdar M. Demir 825 S.
Detroit St. #3, Los Angeles, CA 90036;
The business is conducted by: COPARTNERS declare that all information in this statement is true and correct,
Signed: Sedar M. Demir,
Partner; Statement #20101520098 is
October 22, 2010 Published: October
29, November 05, 11, 19, 2010
LACC N/C
———
is/are doing business as: 1) B.T.N.S.
2) ED HARDY SHIRTS 1135 N.
Mansfield Ave. 3rd Flr., Los Angeles,
CA 90038; JJA Consulting, Inc. 1135
N. Mansfield Ave. 3rd Flr., Los
conducted by: A CORPORATION, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact
herein: Laetitia Allouche, COO;
Los Angeles: November 04, 2010;
Published: November 05, 12, 19, 26,
2010 LACC N/C
———
is/are doing business as: 1) GOLIATH
FILM AND ENTERTAINMENT INTERNATIONAL, INC. 2) GOLIATH FILMS 8920
Wilshire Blvd. #701, Beverly Hills, CA
90211;
Goliath
Film
and
Entertainment International, Inc.
8920 Wilshire Blvd. #701, Beverly Hills,
CA 90211; The business is conducted
by: A CORPORATION, registrant(s)
has NOT begun to transact business
Kevin Frawley, President; Statement
is filed with the County of Los Angeles:
November 04, 2010; Published:
November 05, 12, 19, 26, 2010 LACC
N/C
———
is/are doing business as: 1) BEACON
REALTY 2) BEACON REALTY GROUP
5150 Wilshire Blvd. #100, Los Angeles,
CA 90046; Karina Gudkova 1324 N.
Fuller Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046;
INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has NOT
begun to transact business under the
name(s) listed herein: Karina
Gudkova; Statement is filed with the
County of Los Angeles: November 04,
2010; Published: November 05, 12,
19, 26, 2010 LACC N/C
———
is/are doing business as: PARAGON
BIJOUX 9663 Santa Monica Blvd. #169,
Beverly Hills, CA 90210; WDC III
Venture, Inc. 9663 Santa Monica Blvd.
#169, Beverly Hills, CA 90210; The
business is conducted by: A CORPORATION, registrant(s) has begun to
listed herein November 01, 2010:
Wes Carroll, President/CEO;
2010 LACC N/C
———
is/are doing business as: 1) COUTURE ZEN 2) COUTUREZEN.COM 1755
N. Western Ave., Los Angeles, CA
90028; Melynda Frye 1820-1/2
Winona Blvd. #4, Los Angeles, CA
90027; Danielle Tadeii 1755 N.
Western Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90028;
The business is conducted by: A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP, registrant(s) has
Melynda Frye; Statement is filed with
the County of Los Angeles: November
04, 2010; Published: November 05,
12, 19, 26, 2010 LACC N/C
———
is/are doing business as: A ROCK’IN
ICE 8633 West Knoll Dr. #205, West
Hollywood, CA 90069; Thom Uber
8633 West Knoll Dr. #205, West
Hollywood, CA 90069; Bill Hacket
8633 West Knoll Dr. #205, West
Hollywood, CA 90069; The business is
conducted by: STATE or LOCAL REGISTERED DOMESTIC PARTNERS, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact
herein: Thom Uber; Statement is filed
November 05, 12, 19, 26, 2010 LACC
N/C
———
is/are doing business as: 1) GREEN
MED SOLUTIONS 2) GREEN MEDICAL
SOLUTIONS 1537 S. Edris Dr., Los
Angeles, CA 9035; Arnold Sandlow
1537 S. Edris Dr., Los Angeles, CA
Arnold Sandlow; Statement is filed
November 05, 12, 19, 26, 2010 LACC
N/C
———
is/are doing business as: BEVERLY
HILLS VIP TRAVEL COMPANY 9732 S.
Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA
90210; C & L Schoenfeld Investments
LLC 224 5th St., Manhattan Beach, CA
90266-5710; The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, registrant(s) has NOT begun to
listed herein: Lawrence J.
Schoenfeld, V.P.; Statement is filed
November 05, 12, 19, 26, 2010
LACC N/C
———
is/are doing business as: 1) PLUSH
HOME INTERNATIONAL REALTY 2)
HERITAGE R.E. GROUP INT’L INC.
9903 Santa Monica Blvd. #773,
Beverly Hills, CA 90212; Heritage
Real Estate Group International Inc.
9903 Santa Monica Blvd. #773,
Beverly Hills, CA 90212; The business
is conducted by: A CORPORATION,
registrant(s) has NOT begun to
transact business under the
name(s) listed herein: Joseph
Schiro, President; Statement is filed
November 05, 12, 19, 26, 2010
LACC N/C
———
is/are doing business as: THE VISUAL EDGE 426 S. Maple Dr. #2, Beverly
Hills, CA 90212; Anne J. Devlin 426 S.
Maple Dr. #2, Beverly Hills, CA 90212;
INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has begun
to transact business under the
name(s) listed herein October 15,
2010: Anne Devlin; Statement is filed
November 05, 12, 19, 26, 2010
LACC N/C
———
1)
FRANKLIN MANAGEMENT GROUP 2)
THE XL COMPANY 1741 Stearns Dr.,
Los Angeles, CA 90035; Xenophon
Frank Lang III 1741 Stearns Dr., Los
conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact
herein: Xenophon Frank Lang III;
2010 LACC N/C
Loan No. Title Order No.
Trustee’s Sale No. 1010090/ RUBINSHTEYN
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S
SALE YOU ARE IN
DEFAULT UNDER A
DEED OF TRUST DATED
5/9/2005, UNLESS YOU
TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT
A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU
NEED AN EXPLANATION
OF THE NATURE OF
THE OF THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST YOU,
YOU SHOULD CONTACT
A
LAWYER.
On
11/19/2010, at 10:30 AM.,
C&H Trust Deed Service,
as the duly appointed
Trustee, or substituted
Trustee, under the certain
Deed of Trust executed
by: Lyubov Rubinshteyn,
a married woman, as
Trustor, to secure obligations in favor of Boris
Akselrod and Pauline
Akselrod, or their successors in trust, trustees of
the Akselrod Revocable
Family
Trust
dated
January 24, 2000, as beneficiary, recorded on
05/27/2005, as Instrument
No. 05-1243971 in book ,
page , of Official Records
in the office of the County
Recorder of Los Angeles
County. Will sell at public
auction to the highest bidder for cash, or cashier’s
check
(This
Trustee
requests that cashier’s
checks be made payable
to C&H Trust Deed
Service directly) (payable
at time of sale in lawful
money of the United
States, by cash, a
cashier’s check drawn by
a state or national bank, a
state or federal credit
union, or a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings bank
specified in section 5102
of the financial code and
authorized to do business
in this state) At the front
entrance to the Pomona
Superior Courts Building,
350 West Mission Blvd.,
Pomona, CA all right, title,
and interest conveyed to
and now held by in under
said deed of trust in and to
the following described
real property situated in
said the aforesaid County
and State, to wit: As more
fully described in said
Deed of Trust The Street
address or other common
designation, of the abovedescribed property is purported to be: 1411 N.
Hayworth Ave., #10 West
Hollywood, CA 90046
Assessor’s Parcel No.
5554-004-096 The undersigned Trustee disclaims
any liability for any incorrectness of the street
address and/or other
common designation, if
any, shown hereinabove.
Said sale will be made,
but without covenant or
warranty, express or
implied, regarding title,
possession, or encumbrances, to pay the
remaining principal sum of
the note(s) secured by
said Deed of Trust, with
interest thereon, as provided in said note(s),
advances, if any, under
the terms of the Deed of
Trusts, estimated fees,
charges and expenses of
the Trustee and of the
trusts created by said
Deed of Trust, to wit: Said
property is being sold for
the express purpose of
paying the obligations
secured by said Deed of
Trust, including, fees and
expenses of sale. The
total amount of the unpaid
principal balance, interest
thereon, together with
reasonable
estimated
costs, expenses and
advances at the time of
the initial publication of
the Notice of Trustee’s
Sale is $680,114.94. The
timeframe for giving
notice of sale specified in
section (a) of Civil Code §
2923.52 does not apply
pursuant
to
section
2923.52 or 2923.55. The
beneficiary under said
deed of trust heretofore
executed and delivered
to the undersigned a written declaration of Default
and Demand for Sale,
and a written Notice of
Default and Election to
Sell. The undersigned
Trustee caused said
Notice of Default and
Election to Sell to be
recorded in the County
were the real property is
located and more than
three
months
have
elapsed since such recordation. For sale information, please call (714) 5731965 or Online at www.priorityposting.com. Dated:
10/22/2010 C&H Trust
Deed Service, as Trustee
By: Coby R. Halavais
Trustee’s Sale Officer 1
Orchard Rd. Suite 110
Lake Forest California
92630 P761542 10/29,
11/5, 11/12/2010
——————————
Trustee
Sale
No.
435721CA Loan No.
3017135439 Title Order
No. 602131351 NOTICE
OF TRUSTEE’S SALE
YOU ARE IN DEFAULT
UNDER A DEED OF
TRUST DATED 05-082007. UNLESS YOU
NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE
OF THE PROCEEDINGS
AGAINST YOU, YOU
SHOULD CONTACT A
LAWYER. On 11-192010 at 10:30 AM, CALIFORNIA
RECONVEYANCE COMPANY as
the
duly
appointed
Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust
Recorded 05-15-2007,
Book , Page , Instrument
20071173525, of official
records in the Office of
the Recorder of LOS
ANGELES
County,
California, executed by:
SCOTT WEISS, A MARRIED MAN AS HIS SOLE
AND SEPARATE PROPERTY, as Trustor, WASHINGTON
MUTUAL
BANK,
FA,
as
Beneficiary, will sell at
public auction sale to the
highest bidder for cash,
a state or national bank,
a cashier’s check drawn
by a state or federal credit union, or a cashier’s
check drawn by a state or
federal savings and loan
association,
savings
association, or savings
bank specified in section
5102 of the Financial
Code and authorized to
do business in this state.
Sale will be held by the
duly appointed trustee as
shown below, of all right,
title, and interest conveyed to and now held by
the trustee in the hereinafter described property
under and pursuant to the
Deed of Trust. The sale
will be made, but without
covenant or warranty,
expressed or implied,
regarding title, possession, or encumbrances,
to pay the remaining prin-
P U B L I C N OT I C E S
cipal sum of the note(s)
secured by the Deed of
Trust, interest thereon,
estimated fees, charges
and expenses of the
Trustee for the total
amount (at the time of the
initial publication of the
Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set
forth below. The amount
may be greater on the
day of sale. Place of
Sale:
THE
FRONT
ENTRANCE TO THE
POMONA SUPERIOR
COURTS
BUILDING,
350
W.
MISSION
B O U L E V A R D ,
POMONA, CA Legal
Description: As more fully
described in said Deed of
Trust Amount of unpaid
balance
and
other
charges: $3,327,775.04
(estimated)
Street
address and other common designation of the
real
property:
9836
GLOUCESTER DRIVE
BEVERLY HILLS, CA
90210 APN Number:
4382-033-032
The
undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any
incorrectness of the
street address and other
any, shown herein. The
property
heretofore
described is being sold
“as is”. In compliance
with California Civil Code
2923.5(c) the mortgagee,
trustee, beneficiary, or
authorized
agent
declares: that it has contacted the borrower(s) to
assess their financial situation and to explore
options to avoid foreclosure; or that it has made
efforts to contact the borrower(s) to assess their
financial situation and to
explore options to avoid
foreclosure by one of the
following methods: by
telephone; by United
States mail; either 1st
class or certified; by
overnight delivery; by
personal delivery; by email; by face to face
meeting. DATE: 10-252010 SEE ATTACHED
EXHIBIT Exhibit DECLARATION PURSUANT TO
CALIFORNIA
CIVIL
CODE
SECTION
2923.54 Pursuant to
California Civil Code
Section 2923.54, the
undersigned loan servicer declares as follows:
1. It has obtained from
the commissioner a final
or temporary order of
exemption pursuant to
Section 2923.54 that is
current and valid on the
date the notice of sale is
filed; and 2. The timeframe for giving notice of
sale specified in subdivision (a) of Section
pursuant to Section
2923.52
or
Section
2923.55.
JPMorgan
Chase Bank, National
Association Name: Ann
Thorn Title: First Vice
President CALIFORNIA
RECONVEYANCE COMPANY, as Trustee (714)
259-7850
or
www.fidelityasap.com
(714)
573-1965
or
www.priorityposting.com
Deborah Brignac CALIFORNIA
RECONVEYANCE COMPANY IS
A DEBT COLLECTOR
ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT.
ANY
I N F O R M AT I O N
OBTAINED WILL BE
USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.
DEBORAH
BRIGNAC, VICE PRESIDENT 9200 OAKDALE
AVE MAILSTOP N110612
CHATSWORTH,
CA
91311 P761887 10/29,
11/5, 11/12/2010
——————————
Trustee
Sale
No.
734225CA Loan No.
3018084339 Title Order
No.
3206-223599
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S
SALE YOU ARE IN
DEFAULT UNDER A
DEED
OF
TRUST
DATED
07-25-2007.
UNLESS YOU TAKE
ACTION TO PROTECT
YOUR PROPERTY, IT
MAY BE SOLD AT A
PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU
OF THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST YOU,
YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On
11-19-2010 at 10:30 AM,
CALIFORNIA RECONVEYANCE COMPANY
as the duly appointed
Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust
Recorded 08-01-2007,
Book , Page , Instrument
20071816443, of official
records in the Office of
the Recorder of LOS
ANGELES
County,
California, executed by:
BEHNAM GHASSEMINEJAD AND, BITA
GHASSEMINEJAD,
TRUSTEE,
COTRUSTEES OF THE
GHASSEMINEJAD
FAMILY REVOCABLE
TRUST 12/26/02, AS, as
Trustor, WASHINGTON
MUTUAL BANK, FA, as
Beneficiary, will sell at
public auction sale to the
a state or national bank,
a cashier’s check drawn
by a state or federal
credit union, or a
a state or federal savings
and loan association,
savings association, or
savings bank specified in
section 5102 of the
Financial Code and
authorized to do business in this state. Sale
will be held by the duly
appointed trustee as
shown below, of all right,
title, and interest conveyed to and now held by
the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to
the Deed of Trust. The
sale will be made, but
without covenant or warranty, expressed or
possession, or encumbrances, to pay the
remaining principal sum
of the note(s) secured by
the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, estimated
fees,
charges
and
expenses of the Trustee
for the total amount (at
the time of the initial publication of the Notice of
Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth
below. The amount may
be greater on the day of
sale. Place of Sale: THE
FRONT ENTRANCE TO
THE POMONA SUPERIOR COURTS BUILDING,
350 W. MISSION BOULEVARD, POMONA, CA
Legal Description: As
more fully described in
said Deed of Trust
Amount of unpaid balance and other charges:
$3,642,461.82 (estimated) Street address and
other common designation of the real property:
507
N
OAKHURST
DRIVE BEVERLY HILLS,
CA 90210 APN Number:
4341-031-009
The
incorrectness of the
street address and other
any, shown herein. The
property
heretofore
described is being sold
“as is”. In compliance with
California Civil Code
2923.5(c) the mortgagee,
trustee, beneficiary, or
authorized
agent
declares: that it has contacted the borrower(s) to
assess their financial situation and to explore
options to avoid foreclosure; or that it has made
efforts to contact the borrower(s) to assess their
financial situation and to
explore options to avoid
foreclosure by one of the
following methods: by
telephone; by United
States mail; either 1st
class or certified; by
overnight delivery; by personal delivery; by e-mail;
by face to face meeting.
DATE: 10-26-2010 SEE
ATTACHED
EXHIBIT
Exhibit DECLARATION
PURSUANT TO CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE
SECTION
2923.54
Pursuant to California
Civil
Code
Section
2923.54, the undersigned
loan servicer declares as
follows: 1. It has obtained
from the commissioner a
final or temporary order of
exemption pursuant to
Section 2923.54 that is
current and valid on the
date the notice of sale is
filed; and 2. The timeframe for giving notice of
sale specified in subdivision (a) of Section
pursuant
to
Section
2923.52
or
Section
2923.55.
JPMorgan
Chase Bank, National
Association Name: Ann
Thorn Title: First Vice
President CALIFORNIA
RECONVEYANCE COMPANY, as Trustee (714)
259-7850
or
w w w. f i d e l i t y a s a p . c o m
(714)
573-1965
or
www.priorityposting.com
Deborah Brignac CALIFORNIA
RECONVEYANCE COMPANY IS
A DEBT COLLECTOR
ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY
I N F O R M AT I O N
OBTAINED WILL BE
USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.
DEBORAH
BRIGNAC, VICE PRESIDENT 9200 OAKDALE
AVE MAILSTOP N110612
CHATSWORTH,
CA
91311 P761970 10/29,
11/5, 11/12/2010
——————————
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S
SALE T.S. No: B511764
CA Unit Code: B Loan
No: 0556100634/DROMMI/FRANCESCA Min No:
1000703-0000425549-0
AP #1: 4348-020-015
T.D. SERVICE COMPANY, as duly appointed
Trustee under the following described Deed of
Trust
WILL SELL AT
PUBLIC AUCTION TO
THE HIGHEST BIDDER
FOR CASH (in the forms
which are lawful tender in
the United States) and/or
the cashier's, certified or
other checks specified in
Civil Code Section 2924h
(payable in full at the time
of sale to T.D. Service
Company) all right, title
and interest conveyed to
and now held by it under
said Deed of Trust in the
property
hereinafter
described:
Trustor:
FRANCESCA G. DROMMI Recorded November
3, 2006 as Instr. No. 062444869
in Book --Page
--of Official
Records in the office of
the Recorder of LOS
ANGELES County; CALIFORNIA , pursuant to the
Notice of Default and
Election to Sell thereunder recorded April 28,
2010 as Instr. No. 100574193 in Book
--Page
--of Official
Records in the office of
the Recorder of LOS
ANGELES County CALIFORNIA. YOU ARE IN
DEFAULT UNDER A
DEED
OF
TRUST
DATED OCTOBER 18,
2006. UNLESS YOU
OF THE PROCEEDING
AGAINST YOU, YOU
SHOULD CONTACT A
LAWYER. 1729 ANGELO DRIVE, BEVERLY
HILLS, CA 90210 "(If a
street address or common designation of property is shown above, no
warranty is given as to its
completeness or correctness)." Said Sale of property will be made in "as is"
condition
without
express
or
implied,
regarding title possession, or encumbrances, to
pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s)
Trust, with interest as in
said
note
provided,
advances, if any, under
the terms of said Deed of
Trust, fees, charges and
expenses of the Trustee
and of the trusts created
by said Deed of Trust.
Said sale will be held on:
NOVEMBER 18, 2010,
AT 11:00 A.M. *AT THE
WEST SIDE DOORS TO
THE LOS ANGELES
COUNTY
COURTS
BUILDING, 12720 NORWALK BLVD, NORWALK,
CA At the time of the initial publication of this
notice, the total amount of
the unpaid balance of the
obligation secured by the
above described Deed of
Trust and estimated
costs, expenses, and
advances
is
$2,756,456.04. It is possible that at the time of
sale the opening bid may
be less than the total
indebtedness
due.
Regarding the property
that is the subject of this
notice of sale, the "mortgage loan servicer" as
defined in Civil Code
2923.53(k)(3) declares
that it has not obtained
from the Commissioner a
final or temporary order
of exemption pursuant to
Civil
Code
section
2923.53 that is current
and valid on the date this
notice of sale is recorded.
The time frame for giving
a notice of sale specified
in Civil Code Section
2923.52 subdivision (a)
does apply to this notice
of sale. If the Trustee is
unable to convey title for
any reason, the successful bidder's sole and
exclusive remedy shall
be the return of monies
paid to the Trustee and
the successful bidder
shall have no further
recourse. If the sale is set
aside for any reason, the
Purchaser at the sale
shall be entitled only to a
return of the monies paid.
The Purchaser shall have
no
further
recourse
against the Mortgagor,
the Mortgagee or the
Mortgagee's
attorney.
Date: October 27, 2010
T.D. SERVICE COMPA-
NY as said Trustee, T.D.
Service Company Agent
for the Trustee and as
Authorized Agent for the
Beneficiary KIMBERLY
COONRADT D' AMBROSIO, ASST. SECRETARY
T.D. SERVICE COMPANY 1820 E. FIRST ST.,
SUITE 210, P.O. BOX
11988 SANTA ANA, CA
92711-1988
We are
assisting the Beneficiary
to collect a debt and any
information we obtain will
be used for that purpose
whether received orally
or in writing. If available,
the expected opening bid
and/or
postponement
information
may
be
obtained by calling the
following telephone number(s) on the day before
the sale: (714) 480-5690
or you may access sales
information at www.tacforeclosures.com. TAC#
917063 PUB: 10/29/10,
11/05/10, 11/12/10
——————————
NOTICE TO
CONTRACTORS
CALLING FOR BIDS
Notice is hereby given
that the Board of
Education of the Beverly
Hills Unified School
District
will
receive
sealed bids for: District
Wide Copier Replacement
Bid # 10-11/004
Bids will be received up
to, but no later than,
10:00am on Monday,
November 15, 2010 in
the Purchasing Office, at
255 South Lasky Drive,
Beverly Hills, CA, at
which time they will be
opened and read after
the time fixed above. All
bids must be sealed and
clearly state on the outside of the envelope in
the lower left-hand corner
“District
Wide
Copier
Replacement
Bid # 10-11/004”.
Each bid must conform
and be responsive to the
contract
documents,
copies of which are on
file and may be obtained
from the Purchasing
Office at the above
address after Friday
10/29/10. Each bidder
may obtain one set of bid
documents.
Bidders will be required
to furnish the District with
a Bid Bond of 10% of the
amount bid. Bond is to
be secured from a
California admitted surety
insurer satisfactory to the
Governing Board of the
Beverly Hills Unified School
District of Los Angeles
County.
Each bidder will be
required to furnish and
maintain
Commercial
General
Liability
Insurance, Comprehensive
Automobile
Liability
Insurance, and Worker’s
Compensation Insurance.
No bidder may withdraw
his bid for a period of
Thirty (30) days after the
date set for the opening
of bids.
The District reserves the
right to waive any irregularities, accept or reject
any or all bids and to
accept or reject any item
thereon, and to contract
in the best interest of the
District.
Publication
Dates:
10/29/10 & 11/05/10
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SUMMONS (CITATION JUDICIAL)
CASE NO: CU-10-020
NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (Aviso Al Demandando)
SUNLAND INDUSTRIES, LLC and Does 1 to 25
and Frederick P. Wiener
YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLANTIFF:
(Lo Esta Demandando El Demandante)
EAGLE PEAK ROCK & PAVING, INC
You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers
are served on you to file a written response at this court and have
a copy served on the plantiff. A letter or phone call will not protect
you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want
the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can
use for your response. You can find these court forms and more
information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center
(www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the
courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee ask the
court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on
time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and
property may be taken without further warning from the court.
There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an
attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want
to call attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you
may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California
Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California
Courts online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or
by contacting your local court or county bar association.
The name and address of the court is:
(El nombre y direccion de la corte es):
Superior Court of California, County of Modoc
205 South East, Alturas, California 96101
The name, address, and telephone number of plantiff’s attorney,
or plaintiff without an attorney is:
(El Nombre , la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado de demandante, o
del demandante que no tiene abogado es)
Jordan Funk, Esq. The Law Office of Jordan Funk
454 County Rd. 78/ P.O. Box 812 Alturas, CA 96101
(530) 233-5955 - [email protected]
DATE (Fecha):
By:
September 20, 2010
Ronda Gysin, Deputy / Clerk
Beverly Hills Courier • October 22, 29, November 5, 12, 2010
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S
SALE TSG No.: 4497132
TS No.: CA1000207578
FHA/VA/PMI
No.:
APN:4331?013?051 YOU
ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A
DEED OF TRUST, DATED
11/06/06. UNLESS YOU
TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT
YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY
BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC
SALE. IF YOU NEED AN
EXPLANATION OF THE
NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU
SHOULD
CONTACT
A
LAWYER. On November 29,
2010 at 11:30 AM, First
American Trustee Servicing
Solutions, LLC, as duly
appointed Trustee under and
pursuant to Deed of Trust
recorded 11/09/06, as
Instrument
No.
20062486781, in book ,
page , of Official Records in
the Office of the County
Recorder of LOS ANGELES
County, State of California.
Executed by: ELIYAS Y.
ESMAEILIYAN AND ROYA H.
ESMAEILIYAN, HUSBAND
AND WIFE,. WILL SELL AT
PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH,
CASHIER'S CHECK/CASH
EQUIVALENT or other form
of payment authorized by
2924h(b), (Payable at time
of sale in lawful money of
the United States) At the
front entrance to the
Pomona Superior Courts
Building, 350 W. Mission
Blvd. Pomona, CA.. All
right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it
under said Deed of Trust in
the property situated in said
County and State described
as: AS MORE FULLY
DESCRIBED IN THE ABOVE
MENTIONED DEED OF
TRUST
APN#
4331?013?051. The street
address and other common
designation, if any, of the
real property described
above is purported to be:
9303
CHARLEVILLE
BOULEVARD,
BEVERLY
HILLS, CA 90212. The
incorrectness of the street
designation, if any, shown
herein. Said sale will be
made, but without covenant
or warranty, expressed or
possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the
note(s) secured by said
Deed of Trust, with interest
thereon, as provided in said
note(s), advances, under
expenses of the Trustee and
of the trusts created by said
Deed of Trust. The total
amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation
secured by the property to
be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and
advances at the time of the
Notice
of
Sale
is
$627,028.04. The beneficiary under said Deed of
Trust heretofore executed
and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration
of Default and Demand for
Sale, and a written Notice of
Default and Election to Sell.
The undersigned caused
said Notice of Default and
recorded in the County
where the real property is
located. The beneficiary or
servicing agent declares
that it has obtained from
the Commissioner of
Corporations a final or temporary order of exemption
pursuant to California Civil
Code Section 2923.53 that
is current and valid on the
date the Notice of Sale is
filed and/or The timeframe
for giving Notice of Sale
specified in subdivision (s)
of California Civil Code
Section 2923.52 applies
and has been provided or
the loan is exempt from the
requirements.
Date:
10/27/10, First American
Title Insurance Company
First American Trustee
Servicing Solutions, LLC, 3
First American Way, Santa
Ana, CA 92707 Original
document
signed
by
Authorized Agent, Chet
Sconyers
-FOR
TRUSTEE'S SALE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL
(916) 939-0772. First
American Trustee Servicing
Solutions, LLC May be
Acting as a Debt Collector
Attempting to Collect a
P U B L I C N OT I C E S
Debt. Any Information
obtained may be used for
that purpose. NPP0168827
11/05/10, 11/12/10, 11/19/10
——————————
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S
SALE TS # CA-08-222128CH Order # 080131586-CAGTI YOU ARE IN DEFAULT
UNDER A DEED OF TRUST
DATED 1/19/2007. UNLESS
YOU TAKE ACTION TO
PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A
PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU
NEED AN EXPLANATION OF
THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU,
YOU SHOULD CONTACT A
LAWYER. A public auction
sale to the highest bidder
for cash, cashier's check
drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by
state or federal credit
union, or a check drawn by
a state or federal savings
and loan association, or
savings association, or savings bank specified in
Section 5102 to the
Financial code and authorized to do business in this
state, will be held by duly
appointed trustee. The sale
will be made, but without
expressed or implied,
regarding title, possession,
or encumbrances, to pay
the remaining principal sum
of the note(s) secured by
the Deed of Trust, with
interest and late charges
thereon, as provided in the
the terms of the Deed of
Trust, interest thereon,
fees, charges and expenses
of the Trustee for the total
amount (at the time of the
Notice of Sale) reasonably
estimated to be set forth
below. The amount may be
greater on the day of sale.
BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT
TO BID LESS THAN THE
TOTAL AMOUNT DUE.
Trustor(s): ALISA AMAR,
AN UNMARRIED WOMAN
Recorded: 1/24/2007 as
Instrument
No.
20070146654 in book xxx,
page xxx of Official Records
in the office of the Recorder
of LOS ANGELES County,
California; Date of Sale:
11/29/2010 at 10:30 AM
Place of Sale: At the West
side of the Los Angeles
County Courthouse, directly
facing Norwalk Blvd.,
12720 Norwalk Blvd.,
Norwalk, CA 90650 Amount
of unpaid balance and other
charges: $1,185,202.89
The purported property
address is: 8905-8907
ROSEWOOD
AVENUE
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA
90048 Assessors Parcel
No. 4336-016-015 The
incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any,
shown herein. If no street
address or other common
designation is shown,
please refer to the referenced legal description for
property location. In the
event no common address
or common designation of
the property is provided
herein directions to the
location of the property
may be obtained within 10
days of the date of first
publication of this Notice of
Sale by sending a written
request to Saxon Mortgage
Services,
Inc.
4708
Mercantile Drive North Ft.
Worth TX 76137 Pursuant
to California Civil Code
2923.54 the undersigned,
on behalf of the beneficiary,
loan servicer or authorized
agent, declares as follows: [
1 ] The mortgage loan servicer has obtained from the
commissioner a final or
temporary order of exemp-
tion pursuant to Section
2923.53 that is current and
valid on the date the notice
of sale is filed; [ 2 ] The
timeframe for giving notice
of sale specified in subdivision (a) of Section 2923.52
does not apply pursuant to
Section 2923.52 . If the
Trustee is unable to convey
title for any reason, the
successful bidder's sole
and exclusive remedy shall
be the return of monies
paid to the Trustee, and the
successful bidder shall
have no further recourse. If
the sale is set aside for any
reason, the Purchaser at
the sale shall be entitled
only to a return of the
deposit
paid.
The
Purchaser shall have no
further recourse against the
Mortgagor, the Mortgagee,
or
the
Mortgagee's
Attorney. Date: 10/28/2010
Quality Loan Service Corp.
2141 5th Avenue San
Diego, CA 92101 619-6457711 For NON SALE information only Sale Line: 714730-2727 or Login to:
w w w. f i d e l i t y a s a p . c o m
Reinstatement Line: (888)
325-3502 Quality Loan
Service, Corp. If you have
previously been discharged
through bankruptcy, you
may have been released of
personal liability for this
loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise
the note holder's rights
against the real property
only. THIS NOTICE IS SENT
FOR THE PURPOSE OF
COLLECTING A DEBT. THIS
FIRM IS ATTEMPTING TO
COLLECT A DEBT ON
BEHALF OF THE HOLDER
AND OWNER OF THE
NOTE. ANY INFORMATION
OBTAINED BY OR PROVIDED TO THIS FIRM OR THE
CREDITOR WILL BE USED
FOR THAT PURPOSE. As
required by law, you are
hereby notified that a negative credit report reflecting
on your credit record may
be submitted to a credit
report agency if you fail to
fulfill the terms of your
credit obligations. ASAP#
3793766
11/05/2010,
11/12/2010, 11/19/2010
——————————
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S
SALE Trustee Sale No.:
20090159909118
Title
Order No.: 090579849
FHA/VA/PMI No.:
YOU
BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC
EXPLANATION OF THE
NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU,
LAWYER. NDEx West, LLC,
as duly appointed Trustee
under and pursuant to
Deed of Trust Recorded on
06/01/07, as Instrument
No. 20071326681 of official records in the office of
the County Recorder of
LOS ANGELES County,
State of California. EXECUTED BY:
CHARLES
PETERS, WILL SELL AT
PUBLIC AUCTION TO
HIGHEST BIDDER FOR
CASH,
CASHIER'S
CHECK/CASH EQUIVALENT
or other form of payment
authorized by 2924h(b),
(payable at time of sale in
lawful money of the United
States) DATE OF SALE:
November 29, 2010 TIME
OF SALE: 11:30 AM PLACE
OF SALE: At the front
350 W. Mission Blvd.
Pomona, CA. STREET
ADDRESS and other common designation, if any, of
the real property described
223
SOUTH
CARSON
ROAD, BEVERLY HILLS, CA
90211.
APN#
4333?019?003 The undersigned Trustee disclaims
implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances,
to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s)
Trust, with interest thereon,
as provided in said note(s),
advances, under the terms
of said Deed of Trust, fees,
charges and expenses of the
Trustee and of the trusts
created by said Deed of
Trust. The total amount of
the unpaid balance of the
obligation secured by the
property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs,
expenses and advances at
the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale
is $1,086,845.02. The beneficiary under said Deed of
Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the
real property is located.
FOR TRUSTEE SALE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL:
NATIONWIDE POSTING &
PUBLICATION, INC. 5005
WINDPLAY DRIVE, SUITE 1,
EL DORADO HILLS, CA
95762-9334 916-939-0772,
www.nationwideposting.co
m NDEx West L.L.C. MAY
BE ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO
COLLECT A DEBT. ANY
INFORMATION OBTAINED
WILL BE USED FOR THAT
PURPOSE. NDEx West,
L.L.C. as Trustee, BY: Ric
Juarez Dated: 10/28/10
NPP0169090
11/05/10,
11/12/10, 11/19/10
——————————
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S
SALE T.S No. 1284083-02
APN: 4334-022-165 TRA:
002410
LOAN
NO:
Xxxxxx6249 REF: Hersh,
Estate Of Bur IMPORTANT
NOTICE TO PROPERTY
OWNER: YOU ARE IN
DEFAULT UNDER A DEED
OF TRUST, DATED October
13, 2005. UNLESS YOU
BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC
EXPLANATION OF THE
NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU
SHOULD
CONTACT
A
LAWYER. On November 12,
2010, at 10:00am, CalWestern
Reconveyance
Corporation,
as
duly
appointed trustee under and
pursuant to Deed of Trust
recorded October 21, 2005,
as Inst. No. 05 2539088 in
book XX, page XX of Official
Records in the office of the
County Recorder of Los
Angeles County, State of
California, executed by Burt
Hersh, An Unmarried Man,
will sell at public auction to
cashier’s check drawn on a
state or national bank, a
federal credit union, or a
federal savings and loan
association, savings association, or savings bank At the
west side of the los angeles
county
courthouse,
Southeast District, 12720
Norwalk Blvd., Norwalk,
California, all right, title and
interest conveyed to and
now held by it under said
Deed of Trust in the proper-
ty situated in said County
and State described as:
Completely described in
said deed of trust The street
designation, if any, of the
real property described
117 N. Gale Drive #5 Beverly
Hills CA 90211 The undersigned Trustee disclaims
held, but without covenant
or warranty, express or
implied, regarding title, possession,
condition
or
encumbrances, including
fees, charges and expenses
of the Trustee and of the
trusts created by said Deed
of Trust, to pay the remaining principal sums of the
Notice
of
Sale
is:
$407,273.06. If the Trustee
is unable to convey title for
any reason, the successful
bidder's sole and exclusive
remedy shall be the return
of monies paid to the
Trustee, and the successful
bidder shall have no further
recourse. The beneficiary
under said Deed of Trust
heretofore executed and
delivered to the undersigned
a written declaration of
Default and Demand for
Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the
real property is located.
Regarding the property that
is the subject of this notice
of sale, the "mortgage loan
servicer" as defined in civil
code § 2923.53(k)(3),
declares that it has obtained
from the commissioner a
final or temporary order of
exemption pursuant to civil
code section 2923.53 and
that the exemption is current and valid on the date
this notice of sale is recorded. the time frame for giving a notice of sale specified
in civil code section
2923.52 subdivision (a)
does not apply to this notice
of sale pursuant to civil
code sections 2923.52. This
California Declaration is
made pursuant to California
Civil Code Section 2923.54
and is to be included with
the Notice of Sale. I, Jaimee
Gonzales, of Wachovia
Mortgage, FSB (‘Mortgage
Loan Servicer’), declare
under penalty of perjury,
under the laws of the State
of California, that the following is true and correct: The
Mortgage Loan Servicer has
obtained
from
the
Commissioner
of
Corporation a final or temporary order of exemption
pursuant to California Civil
Code Section 2923.53 that
is current and valid on the
date the accompanying
notice of sale is filed AND
The timeframe for giving
notice of sale specified in
subdivision (a) of Civil Code
Section 2923.52 does not
apply pursuant to Section
2923.52 or 2923.55. Date:
7/22/09 Name of Signor:
Jaimee Gonzales Title
and/or
Position:
Vice
President. For sales information: Mon-Fri 9:00am to
4:00pm (619) 590-1221.
Cal-Western Reconveyance
Corporation, 525 East Main
Street, P.O. Box 22004, El
Cajon, CA 92022-9004
Dated: October 18, 2010.
29
(R-345707
10/22/10,
10/29/10, 11/05/10)
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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S
SALE Trustee Sale No.:
20100159902339
Title
Order No.:
100414009
FHA/VA/PMI No.:
YOU
BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC
EXPLANATION OF THE
NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU,
LAWYER. NDEx West, LLC,
as duly appointed Trustee
under and pursuant to Deed
of Trust Recorded on
09/27/07 as Instrument No.
20072229422 of official
records in the office of the
County Recorder of LOS
ANGELES County, State of
California. EXECUTED BY:
JENNA RACZ, WILL SELL
AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO
HIGHEST BIDDER FOR
CASH,
CASHIER'S
CHECK/CASH EQUIVALENT
or other form of payment
authorized by 2924h(b),
(payable at time of sale in
lawful money of the United
States) DATE OF SALE:
November 12, 2010 TIME
OF SALE: 11:30 AM PLACE
OF SALE: At the front
350 W. Mission Blvd.
Pomona, CA. STREET
ADDRESS and other common designation, if any, of
the real property described
1230 HORN AVENUE NO.
529, WEST HOLLYWOOD,
CA 90069.
APN#
5559?006?205 The undersigned Trustee disclaims
possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the
Deed of Trust, with interest
thereon, as provided in said
expenses of the Trustee and
of the trusts created by said
Notice
of
Sale
is
$385,467.87. The beneficiary under said Deed of
recorded in the county
where the real property is
located. FOR TRUSTEE
SALE
INFORMATION
PLEASE CALL: NATIONWIDE POSTING & PUBLICATION, INC. 5005 WINDPLAY DRIVE, SUITE 1, EL
DORADO HILLS, CA 957629334
916-939-0772,
www.nationwideposting.co
m NDEx West L.L.C. MAY
BE ACTING AS A DEBT
COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING
TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY
INFORMATION OBTAINED
WILL BE USED FOR THAT
PURPOSE. NDEx West,
L.L.C. as Trustee, BY: Ric
Juarez Dated: 10/22/10
NPP0167623
10/22/10,
10/29/10, 11/05/10
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• AC •
Marriage Green Card
Fiancée Visa
Work Permit
Artist Visa
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Call/Text 310.613.6679
310/275-DAVE
Caregivers • Companions • CNA
CONTRACTOR
•
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We offer responsible & nurturing care.
Our staff is thoroughly screened.
JCS Immigration
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warrior
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market work
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9 5 Tr ial o f th e
Cen tu r y
d ef en d an t
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9 8 “S h an g h ai
Express” actor
1 0 0 M ath em atical
s eq u en ce o f
u n k n o w n len g th
102 Annual award
for mystery
writers
103 Most meager
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1 0 5 M an d ates
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for duels
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our priority”
org.
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116 N.Y.C. subway
lin e
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in its .
119 Actress Graynor
120 Metric weights:
Abbr.
1 2 1 Big s tr etch ?
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SCHOOLS &
INSTRUCTION
FREELANCE
ACCOUNTANT
Flexible service and flexible pricing.
Hire hourly or per project.
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818-416-7511
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MATH & PHYSICS
PROFESSIONAL TUTOR
• Ph.D. in Physics
• CSET, SAT, AP Exams
• Taught H.S. & College • 7th Grade - College
• Trained High School Math Teachers
Tutoring to Success
Algebra I & II, Geometry, Calculus & Above.
• 310/201-0772 •
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46
31
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CONSULTANT
ELDERLY CARE SERVICES
GREAT
ONE-ON-ONE
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Graduate of
Repair & Training
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• $35/Hour •
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310/774-1562
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LESSONS
Highly Trained
Instructors Offers
A t Yo u r
• Home or Office •
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• Software Training •
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SPECIALIST
Lessons to All Ages,
Specializing in:
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Computer Service
• FREE •
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- Anti-Virus & More...
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CLASSIFI ED INDEX
MISCELLANEOUS/ANNOUNCEMENTS
Obituaries .............................................00
Bookkeeping/Accounting ......................01
Announcements....................................02
Mail Boxes............................................03
Lost & Found ........................................04
Personals .............................................05
Phone Cards ........................................06
Legal Services......................................09
Catering ................................................10
Valet Parking Services ..........................12
Auctions................................................25
Travel Tours..........................................40
Personal Chef.......................................42
Party Services ......................................43
Video/Photography ...............................44
Schools/Instruction ...............................45
Computer Consultants..........................46
Health & Beauty....................................4 7
Health & Wellness ................................48
Professional Services...........................50
Alterations ............................................53
Jobs Wanted ........................................55
Situations Wanted ................................58
Jobs Wanted Domestic ........................60
Domestic Agencies...............................85
Child Care ............................................86
Elderly Home/Care ...............................88
Employment Opportunities ...................90
Volunteer Work.....................................98
Business and Commercial Lots .........235
Wanted to Rent, Offices .....................239
Offices, Stores for Lease....................240
Commercial Property For Lease .........241
Building Material.................................245
Industrial Lots.....................................250
Acreage, Residential Lots ..................260
Condominiums and Townhouses........270
Real Estate for Exchange ..................280
Real Estate Services ..........................281
Real Estate Loans..............................288
Property Management .......................290
Houses for Sale .................................300
Wanted to Buy....................................302
Wanted to Buy Houses ......................303
Palm Springs for Rent ........................331
RENTALS
Rentals to Share ................................404
Wanted to Rent ..................................405
Garage/Storage Rentals .....................407
Rooms for Rent...................................415
Hotels & Motels...................................416
Boarding House/Senior Living ............418
Houses for Rent Furnished ................420
Houses for Rent Unfurnished.............425
Apartments for Rent Furnished..........435
Rental Referral Services ....................439
Apartments for Rent Unfurnished ......440
Vacation Rentals ................................449
BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL
MISCELLANEOUS/SALES
Business Opportunities .......................110
Business Wanted ................................115
Investment Opportunities....................125
Investors Wanted ................................126
Business Services ..............................130
Financial Services ..............................135
Money to Loan....................................150
Mortgage Loans ..................................151
Real Estate Loans ..............................155
Money Wanted....................................165
Antiques/Paintings for Sale................460
Antiques/Paintings Wanted.................461
Jewelry ...............................................468
Furniture For Sale ..............................469
Miscellaneous for Sale........................470
Miscellaneous Wanted ........................471
Pianos For Sale ..................................472
Pianos Wanted....................................473
Fashion ...............................................474
Garage/Estate Sales...........................475
Pets ....................................................480
Auctions .............................................488
REAL ESTATE
Income Property for Sale ...................200
Income Property Wanted ....................201
Commercial Property For Sale...........202
Businesses For Sale ..........................208
Business Property for Sale .................210
Business Property for Rent.................215
Business Property Wanted.................220
TRANSPORTATION
Autos for Sale ....................................500
Motorcycles ........................................525
Aircraft’s for Sale................................540
Aircraft’s Wanted ................................545
Boats/Yachts ......................................555
We can help YOU!
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HEALTH &
WELLNESS
We provide experienced
Cargivers, CNA’s & HHA’s
for seniors needing
MEDITATION companions to drive them
for a HAPPY new you
to doctors, prepare meals,
light housekeeping, etc...
I can teach you
We offer responsible and
Active and non-active
nurturing care. Our staff is
meditations
thoroughly screened and
Private sessions & groups
we care. Live In/Out.
Mysti: 520/921-1231 Call Lisa 24hrs.
[email protected]
( very experienced /
references / live locally )
323/877-8121
323/806-9498
50
PROFESSIONAL
SERVICES
• ELDERCARE •
IN-HOME SPECIALIST
• Caregivers
• CNA • CHHA
• Companions
• Live-In / Live-Out
Bonded & Insured• Licensed • Fully Screened
310.859.0440
www.exehomecare.com
BBB AAA Rated
RN on Staff
Exclusive
Concierge Service
for those over 50 .
Over 100 services including:
• Transportation • Errands
• Shopping, Lunch, Salon
• Companionship
• Pet Care, Lawn Care
• Housekeeping & more
Call for a full list.
Good Company.
Great People.
Groceries Delivered for $22
We provide in-home care and
companionship
to
help
you
remain independent and
happy at home.
24-hour advanced notice required.
• 310-734-8016 •
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Available
If you need help and would like
a free in-home assessment
please call us at:
323-932-8700
CLASSIFIEDS
32 BEVERLY HILLS • BEL AIR • HOLMBY HILLS
88
90
200
Income Property
For Sale
270
270
EMPLOYMENT
OPPORTUNITY
98
BEAUTY
SALON
240
ELDERLY CARE
SERVICES
OFFICE & STORES
CONDOMINIUMS
& TOWNHOMES
CONDOMINIUMS
& TOWNHOMES
ACCOUNTING
SALON ON
SO . BEVERL Y D R
BEVERLY HILLS
STORE
FOR LEASE
PSYCHOTHERAPY
AND MEDICAL
CORNER OF
MOTOR & NATIONAL
(Next To Norm’s Foam)
APPROX. 2,100 S.F.
ST. PARKING ONLY.
$3,700/MO.
Call 310/559-4323
NEED HELP?
WE UNDERSTAND...
Mama’s caregivers
are loving, caring,
trained & bonded.
Live in or out.
ASSISTANT W.LA
1+ yr acctg experience
Accounting degree
Quickbooks exp +
Bilingual Spanish
Call 310/709-8809
MAMA’S HOME CARE
323/655-2622
HAS
STATIONS
For Rent/Commission.
Welcome stylist with no
clients, needs exp.
Cell 626/379-1772
or 310/378-8850
—————
Looking for experienced
HAIRSTYLISTS
Small complex,
Beverly Hills Area.
Management/
Maintenance
Experience.
GREAT OPPORTUNITY!
Fax Resume:
310/829-2630
Or Email:
Great People Make
GOOD COMPANY
Our premiere private
duty
home
care
agency is currently
seeking professional
caregivers to assist
our senior clients.
CNA’s,
CHHA's,
MA's preferred.
Great paying positions
available throughout
Los Angeles, Hancock
Park, Beverly Hills,
Bel
Aire,
Pacific
Palisades and San
Fernando Valley.
Please call
(323)692-3692
THEROBERTSCO @
THEROBERTSCO . COM
—————
EXECUTIVE
ASSISTANT
Very versatile position
assisting CEO of two
product lines & General
Manager of Beverly
Hills Salon. Must be
detailed oriented with
strong organizational
skills. Writing & computer
s k i l l s n e c e s s a r y.
Send resume to:
[email protected]
with many amenities
98
BEAUTY
SALON
BEVERLY HILLS
SALON
Must have clientele
and good work ethic.
North Robertson Bl.
Call 310/275-5810
160
Commercial
Real Estate Loans
RESTAURANT
ACROSS
FROM
LACMA
Wilshire, just
east of Fairfax.
In The Heart of
Miracle Mile.
• 323/954-1318 •
—————
DRE Lic. # 01147688
USEABLE
240
CALL: STEPHANIE
OFFICE & STORES
FOR LEASE
TWO LARGE
OFFICES
Near The London Hotel [email protected]
H A I R , N A I L and
WAXING Position are
now available for rent
or commissions. For
more info contact
Ruzanna 323/497-1632
—————
or 713/266-1444
(310) 276-2119
BROKERS INVITED
• MEDICAL •
OFFICE SPACE
in
BEVERLY HILLS
—————
310/498-8833
—————
*** PRIME ***
BEVERLY HILLS
L AW / B U S I N E S S
OFFICE
Co-Tenant in 1000
sf Office Space
3 Window Offices
Conference Room,
Kitchen, Parking
Central Air & Heat
Controlled Access
Furnished optional
Phone/Internet
Contact Jynyvy
310/691-5500
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E X E C U T I V E O F F I C E IN BEVERLY HILLS 90210
————— —————
MAKE-UP ARTIST
LIVE-IN
Beverly Hills Salon is
HOUSEKEEPER
looking for an experi4 DAYS A WEEK enced Make-up artist
English Speaking and with strong eyebrow
have local verifiable ref- waxing skills. California
erences. Must work
Cosmetology or
weekends. BH Area Esthetician license is a
Call April at
must. Send resume to
310/274-8352 [email protected]
—————
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CHEZ GERMEN
• STATION Available
for busy hair dresser.
• Manicurist Station,
must have clientele.
Great location and
great parking in
friendly environment.
Call 310/246-1270
2 BD + DEN + 2.5 BA
Walk-in closets, big
private patio, remodeled
kitchen & master bath.
Hardwood flrs & more.
Call For Appointment
310/203-9948
1 Yr. Lease w/ CPI Option
Tiny Ron:
BEVERLY HILLS
Cell: 310/850-6255
4+Den+4 Condo
740sf. $1,500/MO.
686sf. $1,400/MO.
Bright bldg. w/ courtyard,
central air, controlled
entry. CAM incld.
Apprx. 3,000sf., 2 Master
WILSHIRE BLVD Suites-each w/ own bath+
balcony. Hrwd flrs, recess
$500k to $100 Mil.
RETAIL
As Low As
F R O N T A G E & lighting, new granite count4.875% Fixed 99 N. LA CIENEGA BL S M A L L O F F I C E ers, rooftop pool+spa
Sell:
$1,199,000
Free Quote, E-mail Us:
BEVERLY HILLS
*** SUITES * ** Lease: $3,999
[email protected]
NO NNN
Angie: 310/709-5799
Visit Us:
SURGICAL/MEDICAL
WWW.CAPITALEQUITY.COM
SUITE AVAILABLE All Utilities Included.
Must Lease Now!
• S INCE 1989 •
714/258-0177 x-301
KELEMEN
Call 310/237-2977
1818 SQ.FT.
With Panoramic Views
on Top Floor in Golden
Triangle Beverly Hills.
Includes Secretarials, Charming boutique bldg.
————— Receptionist, Conference
————— OUR BEAUTIFUL Room, Internet, Fax, Renovated spaces
SALON
w/ many amenities.
M AT U R E
Copier and Storage.
IS LOCATED ON
A S S I S TA N T THE SUNSET STRIP Kim: 310/273-8444
310/666-7655
Needed Part Time
Computer graphics
knowledge with exp.
required. References.
Call Doris at
310/276-2980
—————
Newly Remodeled 2+2
bright unit with high
ceilings, fireplace, full
service building, pool.
$679,000
Haleh 310/463-3030
STARTER OFFICE’s BEVERLYWOOD ADJ
with Incredible
Environment.
EMPLOYMENT
OPPORTUNITY
Professional appearance.
OFFICE SPACE
* PRESTIGIOUS *
OPEN SUNDAY 2-5
BEVERLY HILLS
200 N. SWALL DR.
3 BEDROOM, 2 BATH
BVERLY HILLS
TOWNHOUSE
CONDO
• $925,000
3
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6
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2
0
3
UPSCALE SALON
2 BEVERLY HILLS
90
2 - PERSON
RESIDENT
MANAGEMENT
TEAM
Beverly Drive
PRIVATE PROFESSIONAL
FOR LEASE
468 North Camden Drive
For more info call: 888-909-0210
Come to the heart of the
golden triangle starting at
$600 a month. Included in
the price of the office will be
FREE T1 / Wireless internet
access, FREE phone reception / forwarding.
ø MOVE-IN FEES !
REAL ESTATE
(310) 966-0900
Remodeled Condo
$975,000
310/203-0422
GLORICE SOMEKH
REALTY, INC.
—————
BRENTWOOD ADJ.
X-LARGE 2 BDRM
CONDO FOR SALE
Corner unit, no common
wall, small complex.
Approx. 1757 sf with
huge living & dining
room, fireplace, wood/
laminate floors, laundry room in the unit.
1/2 Block So. Wilshire.
$558,000
Call 310/498-1090
Condo For Sale
2 Bd - 1.5 Ba High end
remodel. Everything
brand new. Excellent
location & low HOA
Sub parking for 2 cars.
562-212-7140
300
HOUSES
FOR SALE
all listings are on
BEVERLY HILLS
centurycityliving.com Tree-lined Street
This Weeks Listings
PARK PLACE
TRUSTEE SALE
$875,000
2 Bed/2.5 Baths
Quiet Interior Location
Large Rooms
Extra Large Patio
Penthouse $875,000
2 Bed, 2.5 Bath
Totally Renovated
Stainless Meile, Bosch,
CeasarStone Huge walkin closets Jumbo
Rainforest shower
Quiet Inside Location
Heated Pools, Sundeck,
Tennis, Doorman,
Houseman, Gardens &
Lawns, Security Staff,
Switchboard, Saunas,
Business Center
CENTURY PARK EAST
CENTURY TOWERS
PARK PLACE
CENTURY HILL
LE PARC
CENTURY WOODS
For Lease
See our Ad Sec. 440
Bright & Spacious
3 Bdrm.+21/2 Bath
Lrg. open kitchen facing
family rm, formal dining, liv
rm w/ fireplace, hrwd flrs,
$1,350,000 • 6,500sf. lot
Call Nasrin:
310/497-8997
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Beverly Hills Flats
BETWEEN WILSHIRE &
BURTON WY ON Maple Dr
2-Story Home
3 Bdrm. + 3 Bath
Large yard+pool. 7,500sf.
corner lot, A+ Location.
Call Mojgan Now:
310/485-0257
310/666-6641
—————
Beverly Hills Flats
N. of Santa Monica
6 Bd. Family Home
5,000sf.+ • $3,926,000
Pool, lrg. living, dining+
family rms. 2-fireplaces.
Call Nasrin:
310/497-8997
Or Call Mojgan:
310/485-0257
CLASSIFIED RENTALS
33
407
440
440
440
440
440
440
Garage/Storage
For Rent
APARTMENT
FOR RENT
APARTMENT
FOR RENT
APARTMENT
FOR RENT
APARTMENT
FOR RENT
APARTMENT
FOR RENT
APARTMENT
FOR RENT
BEVERLY HILLS’
BEST
LOCATION
SANTA MONICA
Doheny/Pico Area
~ WEST ~
WEST L.A.
North of Burton Way
LOW MOVE-IN!
L
OS
A NGELES
STORAGE SPACE/ 1 Blk. East of Doheny 1415 Brockton Ave.
12424
TeXaS Ave.
“THE
51
2 B drm. + 2 B ath
2 BEDROOM
2-CAR GARAGE
MISSION”
== == == == ==
GHOST
WRITING•
Completely Remodel N EWLY R EMODELED .
FOR RENT
• WESTWOOD
• 1 Bdrm.+1 Bath •
Available
Patio,
stove,
fridge,
Clean, bright, nice size
Very Nice Unit.
For Business Use. apartments. Swimming dishwasher, on-sight
L.A.’S FINEST, MOST
Dishwasher,
Must have good credit. pool, laundry facilty
laundry, parking.
LUXURIOUS APT. RENTAL
balcony, on-site
$325/Month
* * * * * *
laundry, covered prkg.
C LOSE T O S HOPS
and gated garage.
818/705-3657
+
•
2
Bd.’s
2
Ba.’s
310/820-8292
& R ESTAURANTS .
Call 310/276-9871
1137 S. DOHENY DR.
————— —————
SANTA MONICA
427 Montana Ave.
Storage
Space
Av a i l a b l e
for Rent.
Close to Beach .
310/393-3547
415
Room
For Rent
BEVERLY HILLS
213/663-8513
—————
• 1 Bd. + 1 Ba.
6-Month Lease Avail.
* * * * * *
~ WESTWOOD ~ Every
Extra Luxury:
dryer, central air, double sight laundry, prkg.
garage. VERY
Close to UCLA &
DESIRABLE STREET. Westwood Village.
310/550-0470
& restaurants. Laundry
access. Semi-furnished.
Prime Location
$795/Month
David: 310/659-8995
425
HOUSES
FOR RENT
310/479-8977
1350 S. Midvale Ave.
L.A., 90024
C o n t a c t M g r. :
• 310/864-0319 •
• 1 Bdrm.+
Den+2 Bath •
bright unit.
sight laundry & prkg.
310/473-1509
a/c, heated pool,
elevator controlled
access, on-site laundry, BEVERLY HILLS
218 S. Tower Dr.
parking. Close to
• • • • •
Brentwood Village,
• 1 Bd. + 1 Ba.
Shops & Restaurants. Old World Charm!
• 310/826-4889 • Bright, intercom entry,
Short term lease avail. fridge, stove, laundry fac.
Close to restaurants
& shopping.
WEST L.A.
323/651-2598
1343 Carmelina Ave.
—————
—————
Walk-in closet,
intercom entry, laundry
facility, elevator, prkg.
• CHARMING & BRIGHT •
Close to Cedars,
restaurants, shopping
& transportation.
• 323/651-2598 •
—————
BRENTWOOD
11988 Kiowa Ave.
•••••••
Single • • • • • •
————— Large & Bright Unit.
• 1 Bdrm.+1 Bath • BEVERLY HILLS ADJ. Elevator, controlled
120 S. Swall Dr.
Bright, patio, on-site
access, on-site
••• ••• •••
laundry,
On-site
1
laundry facility,
•
1
Bdrm.
+
1
Bath
•
2
Remodeled 2 +1 /
parking.
Close
to
balcony,
parking.
A/C,
intercom
entry,
+Family Rm.+Den
transportation.
on-sight
laundry,
prkg.
Central air, kitchen w/
Close to
Close to
310/820-8292
granite, hardwood flrs.,
Brentwood Village,
Cedars-Sinai, shops Shops & Restaurants.
washer/dryer, great
backyard, 2-car garage. • BRENTWOOD • & transportation.
• 310/826-4889 •
310/597-9750
$2,900/Month
872 S. Westgate Ave.
10941 Ayres Av., 90064
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VENICE CANAL
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HOME W/ PRIVATE DOCK. • BRENTWOOD •
818/701-0238
YOUR
AD
HERE
BRENTWOOD
310/550-6038
• WESTWOOD •
672 Kelton Ave.
≈≈ ≈≈ ≈≈ ≈≈ ≈≈
Lrg. fireplace, dishwasher, intercom entry,
elevator, prkg., pool.
• Close to Beach •
310/393-3547
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BEVERLY HILLS
412 N. Oakhurst Dr.
Luxury 2 Bd.+2 Ba.
~ Newly Updated ~
w/ new hardwood floors,
paint, appliances,
washer/dryer. wet bar,
central air, walk-in
closet, 2-prkg. No pets.
Robert: 310/403-6812
BeverlyHillsApartments.net
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2 Bdrm. + 1 Bath
• BRENTWOOD •
~ WEST ~
LOS ANGELES
* * * * * *
125 N. Barrington Av. Patio,
balcony, fridge,
••
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( • ) ( • ) ( • ) ( • ) ( • ) ••
••
•• stove, controlled access,
N EWLY R EMODELED on-site laundry, prkg.
Central air/heat,
•
2 B drm.+ 2 B ath • 1307 Barry Ave.
fireplace, patio,
controlled access,
•• •• •• •• ••
310/473-1509
Upscale, Bright,
pool, elevator, parking,
SMALL QUIET BLDG.
Gorgeous & Spacious.
laundry facility.
With Pool, balcony, BEVERLY HILLS ADJ
310/826-4889
central air, fireplace, 1126 S. CLARK DR.
stove, elevator,
In The HEART of
3 BEDROOM, 2 BATH
intercom
entry, prkg. BRIGHT UPPER UNIT
BEV. HILLS TRIANGLE
• 801/949-9419 • with hardwood / tile/
170 N. Crescent Dr.
1
Close
to shopping. carpet flooring, central
2 Bdrm. + 2 / 2 Bath
Large & Bright.
air & heat, laundry
WESTWOOD
Newly Remodeled.
facility, parking.
1380 Midvale Ave.
Pool, a/c, balcony,
Call 818/640-7363
fridge, stove, laundry
•••••
•••••
rm., prkg., intercom Central air, pool, elevator, MID-WILSHIRE
entry, elevator. Close to controlled access, on- 340 S. St. Andrews Pl.
shops & restaurants. sight laundry, parking.
• • • • •
310/385-9169
1
Bdrm.
+ 2 Bath
Close to U.C.L.A.
310/473-1509
Newly Remodeled.
Border of
Controlled access,
BEVERLY HILLS BEVERLY HILLS refrigerator, parking,
321 S. Sherbourne Dr. • 3 Bdrm.+2 Bath • elevator, on-site laundry.
•• Jr. Executive ••
* * * * * * * * Close to shopping.
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• 2 Bdrm. + 2 Bath •
323/352-6255
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Controlled access, * * * * * * * *
a/c, stove, refrigerator, • 1 Bdrm. + 1 Bath •
WESTWOOD
SANTA MONICA elevator, laundry
• Gorgeous Units •
550 Veteran Ave.
2600 Virginia Ave.
facility, parking.
Central air, large
= = = = = = =
• 310/247-8689 • balcony, pool, elevator, = 2 Bdrm.+2 Bath =
• Spacious •
on-site laundry,
Spacious, microwave,
• 3 Bdrm.+2 Bath • CLOSE TO CEDARS-SINAI,
B
EVERLY
C
ENTER
&
intercom
entry.
intercom entry, on-sight
Patio, stove, dishwasher,
T
RENDY ROBERTSON BL. 320 N. La Peer Dr. laundry, on-sight parking.
on-site laundry, parking.
• 310/916-9667 • Very close to UCLA
Close to school, freeway
C
LOSE TO SHOPS & DINING. & Westwood Village.
& transportation. *CENTURY CITY**
310/208-5166
2220 S. Beverly Glen
310/962-5733
Border
of
• 1 Bd.+Den+1 Ba. •
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Loft+1 Ba.
X-St. Strathmore
Hardwood. floors, • 2 Bdrm. +1 Bath •
patio, fridge, a/c,
««««««« • »»»»»»»
Fireplace, central air,
•
1 Bdrm. +1 Bath •
Spanish tile flrs., wine dishwasher, parking,
Controlled
access,
laundry facility,
cooler, w/d, fridge, stove.
parking,
laundry
facility.
310/207-1965
Pristine Condition.
Close to U.C.L.A.
SWEETEST, SWEETEST
310/208-3085
Wonderful Spanish
3 Bd.+2 Ba. Home
$5,625/Mo. • Small pet ok
310/393-3547
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*BEVERLY HILLS**
1
4
11933 Darlington Ave. 8725 Clifton Way • 1 Bd.+Den+1 / Ba.
11640 Kiowa Ave.
• Singles
2 Bdrm.
+ 2 Bath
* * * * * *
Key-controlled intercom
entry, subterranean
prkg, laundry facilities.
Lrg. Private balcony,
huge closets. Corian
counters & tiled floors,
ceramic tile bath
flrs, plush carpet,
central air. No Pets.
* * * * * *
• OPEN HOUSE •
• Sat. & Sun •
Close to Beach.
• 11am-1pm •
11666 Goshen Ave.
BRENTWOOD
• • • • • •
WESTWOOD
427 Montana Ave.
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BRENTWOOD
Newly Updated
Close to bus stops, markets
SANTA MONICA
• Upper Duplex •
• Single •
3 Bdrm. + 2 Bath • 10992 Ashton Ave. • custom cabinets, granite
•
Bachelor •
• • 1 Bd.+1 Ba. • • countertops, stone entry,
Approx. 2,000sf, new
Hardwood
floors,
• • Single • •
pool, health club, spa.
granite kitchen, all
Controlled
access,
Balcony, intercom
• Close to UCLA • garage, laundry facility.
appliances, washer/ entry, elevator, on-
BEVERLY HILLS • • • • •
• • • • • Spacious, balcony,
BACHELOR
1 Bdrm. + 1 Bath dishwasher, fridge, on- Lrg. unit. Balcony,
W/ Private Entrance
in a garden setting.
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North of Wilshire
3 0 3 N . S w a l l D r.
L rg. 2 B d.+ 2 B a.
808 4th St.
2 Bdrm. + 2 Bath
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BEVERLY HILLS BEVERLY HILLS
• WESTWOOD •
321 S. Sherbourne Dr. 443 S. Oakhurst Dr.
= BRENTWOOD = 10933 Rochester Ave.
Lots of
• Jr. Executive • 1 B d r m . +
1 Bdrm. + 1 Bath 417 S. Barrington Av.
Character & Charm! • • S i n g l e • •
*
*
*
1 Bath
* Jr. Executive
*
*
*
•
•
• 1 Bd.+1 Ba. •
* * * * * *
Alcove fireplace, fridge, Controlled access,
~
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~
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• 2 Bd.+1 Ba. •
2 Bdrm. + 2 Bath
120 Granville Ave.
Spacious, balcony, laundry facility, gated a/c, stove, refrigerator, B RIGHT & SPACIOUS
Large, Sunny & Bright. Hrwd. flrs., pool, laundry
elevator, laundry
B EVERLY H ILLS
parking, intercom
facility, controlled access, a/c, fireplace, pool,
A/C, heated pool,
facility,
parking.
L IVING .
controlled access,
entry and more.
parking.
Close to
intercom entry,
•
310/247-8689
•
Elevator,
intercom
Brentwood Village. laundry fac., parking. • 310/552-8064 •
on-sight laundry, prkg.
C
LOSE TO CEDARS-SINAI,
entry,
on-site
• 310/440-5051 • Close To U.C.L.A. Rooftop jacuzzi with
Close to Everything. VERY UNIQUE • MUST SEE
BEVERLY CENTER &
laundry, parking.
310/473-5061
panoramic city views. TRENDY ROBERTSON BL.
310/435-3693
424/202-7286
34 BEVERLY HILLS • BEL AIR • HOLMBY HILLS
APARTMENTS FOR RENT
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HEART of
Wilshire Corridor
HOLLYWOOD BEVERLY HILLS
BEVERLY HILLS’ 1769Sycamore Av. 2BD+2BA CONDO CENTURY PARK EAST FULL SERVICE BLDG BEVERLY HILLS
1775
BEST In The 90210 • B a c h e l o r
226 N. Crescent Dr.
On Oakhurst Drive
W/ FABULOUS VIEWS
CONDO LIVING
432 N. Palm Dr.
1,850
sf.
Large
living
• Single
* Ve
* r*y B
* r*i g h* t *
2 Bdrm.+2 Bath
+ breakfast area, lots of Breathtaking 20th f l r ,
* * * * * *
Controlled access,
Bright & Spacious
1 Bd.+Den.+1 Ba.
* * * * * *
closets, laundry in unit, M o u n t a i n / C i t y V i e w s . Washer/dryer in unit. Lrg. 2 Bdrm. + 2 Bath •
Pool, exercise room. 2 Bedroom Corner Unit master w/ walk-in closet. Updated. 1,200sf.,
and 2 car parking. with 2 Bath & 2 Balconies pool, spa, rec-room, tennis. dining room, hardwood
323/851-3790
floors, full kitchen,
$2,600/Month
Close to Everything. Available immediately. New hardwood floors
appliances, bar,
$3,300/MO.
Lisa Sherman • Agt. central air, garage.
and
window
coverings,
DURANT DRIVE Call 310/770-2646 recessed lighting, walk-in 310/724-7000 x-1851 No pets. 1 Year Lease.
$2,100/Month
Duplex Apartment
master closet, washer
laundry facility.
Utilities Included.
Pool, Key-controlled
intercom entry.
Garage parking,
laundry facilities. Huge
closets, dining room.
BEVERLY HILLS
• 310/273-6124 •
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WILSHIRE
UPPER DUPLEX
Decorator Remodeled.
and dryer. Valet, gym,
3 Bd + 2 Ba + Ofc 3 BEDROOM, 2 BATH
CORRIDOR
New kitchen cabinets,
pool and tennis court.
Chateau Beverly
Newly Remodeled; all Approx. 2,000 Sq. Ft.,
~
Very Large ~
tiled bath floors,
2 + 2 • $2,100
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new appliances, central New Granite Kitchen
1 Bd.+11/2 Ba. Condo All appliances Incld.,
central air. No Pets.
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• OPEN HOUSE •
• Sat. & Sun •
• 11am-1pm •
• 310/724-8994 •
PRIME
BRENTWOOD
2 BDRM + 2 BA.
310/826-8819
*HOLLYWOOD
******
1 BDRM + 1 BA.
310/308-5957
air & heating. 2 car covered garage, backyard.
$4,000/MO. + utilities
Call 310/613-5045
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BEVERLY HILLS
HUGE 3,000 SQ. FT.
3 BD + 2 BA CONDO
In Spanish 4-Plex
Upper corner unit.
private entry, balcony,
hardwood floors, fireplace, Central A/C, high
ceilings, alarm, double
garage. Pets OK. Close
to shops & restaurants.
$3,990/MO.
Call 310/890-5576
& Hardwood Floors,
Recessed Lighting, New
Appliances, Central Air,
Completely Remodeled.
Washer/dryer in unit.
Beautifully landscaped
like an Oasis!
$3,250/MO.
Short/Long Term Lease
Call: 310/271-9678
310/351-9190
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PRIME WESTWOOD
*** TOWNHOUSE ***
Adjacent Century City
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EXTRA LARGE
2 BDRM, 2 BATH
*CULVER
* * * *CITY
* * ————— Formal living room with
fireplace, dining room.
LARGE SINGLE
310/666-5951
GREAT AREAS!
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WILSHIRE
CORRIDOR
10530-10540
Wilshire Bl.
OPEN HOUSE Large master suite with
SUNDAY • 12-5 fireplace, hardwood flrs
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2 Bdrm.+1 Bath
* * * * * *
Key-controlled intercom
entry, subter’n prkg,
pool, laundry facilities.
*Newly Remodeled*
New kitchen cabinets,
corian counters, ceramic
flrs., wood flrs. in living
rm. & bdrms., New
stainless applicances,
huge closets. No Pets.
* * * * * *
• OPEN HOUSE •
• Sat. & Sun •
• 11am-1pm •
310/724-8994
Or visit our website:
CENTURY PARK EAST
Granite, Marble, Wood Floors.
Pool, Gym, Sauna, Tennis Court,
Doorman and Valet Parking.
24 Hour Security Guards.
2+2 15th flr, 2 balconies,
remodeled, NWE views
$3,000/MO.
2 + 2 18th Floor with
Mountain and City Views.
Balcony, washer & dryer.
$3,200/MO
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1836 PARNELL AVE .
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BEVERLY HILLS’ —————
BEVERLY HILLS
BEST!
432 N. Palm Dr.
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2 Bdrms, 2.5 Baths
436 S. BEDFORD DR. crown molding, French
$2,800-$2,900
BEVERLY HILLS doors, updated kitchen, 4.5 Year old building, high
UPPER DUPLEX
laundry in unit, enclosed ceilings with crown molding,
3 BDRM. + 2.5 BATH garage. No pets. $3,200 bamboo floors stainless2,200 sf. Central A/C, 1292 DEVON AVE.
steel-appliances Washer &
remodeled kitchen, new Call 310/795-5990
dryer, Marble bathrooms.
painted, oakwood flrs.
$3,700/MO.
• BEVERLY HILLS •
310/203-0422
GLORICE SOMEKH REALTY, INC.
Call 310/553-4904 170 N. ARNAZ DR.
Elegant
Remodeled
BEVERLY HILLS
• Upper Duplex • 3Bd, 2Ba Townhouse
3 Bd.+11/2 Ba. • $3,500 Style Apt........$3,200 BEL AIR CONDO
1 Bd, 1 Ba......$1,595
2,150sf. Updated
2 Bd.+2 Ba.+Lrg. Loft
*
amenities & pool. Near * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Central
air, f/p, vaulted
Beverly Hills Schools. Formal dining room,
454 Smithwood Dr. hardwood flrs., stove, ceilings, balcony-views,
fridge, A/C, parking
424/245-0710
slate flrs/carpet, granite
and
laundry facility.
CLOSE TO SHOPS & DINING.
Cell 818/667-9007 ctrs., w/d, pool, jacuzzi,
∞• ∞
∞∞∞∞∞
1 Bdrm.+1 Bath •
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Luxury Living with
valet, lush garden
surrounding pool,
gym, elevator, etc.
Call: 310/470-4474
$3,150/MO
Call 310/980-2696
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9955 DURANT DR.
2 BDRM. + 2 BATH
MUST SEE!
$3,500/MO.
**BEVERLY HILLS**
Spacious front condo HUGE 3 BD + 3BA.
on a quiet beautiful Approx 2000 sf, lots of
street. New kitchen, closet space, central
large balcony, walk-in air & heat, intercom
closets and fireplace. entry, side-by-side 2
Contact Vickie at car parking, No Pets.
$3,195/MO.
310/774-1452
Contact Hector
at: 310/277-9340
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BEVERLY HILLS
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gym, rec. rm., tennis.
1/2 Blk. from Top Rated
Elementary School.
$2,750/Month
213/700-2150
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3 BDRM + 3 BA.
LUXURY APARTMENT
BEVERLY HILLS ADJ.
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Spacious & bright unit,
private patio, fireplace,
washer/dryer in unit,
secured building and
parking. No pets.
$2,800/MO.
9800 VIDOR DRIVE
2BD+2BA CONDO
HANCOCK PARK
ADJACENT
On Oakhurst Drive
1,850 sf. Large living
+ breakfast area, lots of
closets, laundry in unit,
Pool, exercise room.
and 2 car parking.
Available immediately.
$3,500/MO.
Call 310/770-2646
LUXURY 3 BEDROOM
DUPLEX APARTMENT
Non smoking building,
parking on property,
Owner upstairs.
Retired professional
(@ Roxbury Drive)
preferred. $3,000/MO.
Contact
Gezell at
(negotiable)
Call 323/242-4598
310/860-5426
FREE
RENT!
Pico/Robertson
2 Bd.+2 Ba. $1,850
Unique & Spacious
Light & Airy Corner.
New custom built-ins in
kitchen, balcony, dry
bar, skylight, huge
closets, central heat, a/c,
2-prkg., laundry facility.
Exceptional Condition!
323/937-3737
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BEVERLY HILLS
174 N. Almont Dr.
hardwood floors,
Full service bldg.
2
Bd.+2 Ba. • $1,775
2-large walk-in closets, hi-ceilings, fireplace,
Lots
of windows,
central air, balcony, balcony, sundeck, laundry
facility, 2-parking.
fireplace, a/c,
washer/dryer in unit. 137 N. Wetherly Dr.
dishwasher, fridge,
$2,495/Month
Yelena: 310/858-0905
stove, laundry facility,
714/883-5300
parking. No pets.
BEVERLY HILLS
• Q UIET B UILDING •
BEVERLY HILLS Adj 225 S. REEVES DR.
916/761-0943
GREAT
LOCATION
2 BD. + OFC + 1 3/4 BA.
************
$2,450/MO.
SPACIOUS UNIT
CHARMING SPANISH 2 BDRM. + 2 BATH
*KELEMEN*
$2,000/MO.
UPPER DUPLEX.
REAL
ESTATE
Dramatic, living room with enclosed patio, carpeting, A/C, dishwasher,
(310) 966-0900
& views. Hardwood stove, fridge & pkng.
all listings are on
floors, 10ft ceilings.
Contact Nancy at
centurycityliving.com
310/285-2093
1220 EDRIS DR.
Valet and Guest
Call 310/283-6653
BEVERLY HILLS Adj.
Parking.
Huge Heated
825 BEDFORD #105
BEVERLY HILLS ADJ. 2 BDRM. + 2 BATHS
Pool, Security Staff,
LUXURIOUS
$1,995/MO.
Doorman & HousePENTHOUSE Remodeled unit, new
man, Switchboard
1 BDRM.+2 BATH kitchen and baths.
Tennis, Fitness Center
+ LARGE LOFT 1200 sf., Microwave,
Dishwasher & Stove.
Business Center
20’ ceiling, spacious Nr. Robertson. No Pets
NEW LISTINGS EVERYDAY
living room with bar, Call 310/915-9595
Call for latest properties
hardwood floors and ext. 26 for appointment.
berber carpets, updated
CENTURY PARK EAST
kitchen w/new granite BEVERLY CENTER/
THE GROVE AREA
$1,950/month
counter top, stainless- 8133 Blackburn Ave.
1
Bed,
1
Bath. New Carpets,
steel appliances and Gorgeous and Huge
Fresh Paint Large Balcony
2 BDRM, 1 BATH
new tile floors, spacious
$2,400/month
master bath w/ spa, updated unit with Old
World
Charm
in
Pride
1
Bedroom,
1 Bath
large closets. Newly
of Ownership building.
High
Floor,
Large
Balcony
remodeled bathrooms. Large, Formal Dning
Totally Renovated
Q u a l i t y a m e n i t i e s . Rm, Hdwd floors, W/D
Granite, Smooth Ceilings
private deck, balconies, hook up, Lots of closet
fireplace, central A/C, space. Will accept most
$3,150/month
washer/dryer in unit, dogs. Sorry, street parkg
2
Bed,
2 Bath. High Floor
only. Available now!
and secured building.
Total
Renovations
$1,900/MO.
Stainless
Steel Kitchen
Close to Beverly Center, Call 323/304-6969
Hardwood
Floors.
Large Balcony
Restaurants, Shops
Choose
from
Three
a n d C e d a r s - S i n a i . Move-In Special (OAC)
BEVERLY HILLS
Please no pets.
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9633 W. Olympic Blvd.
$2,350MO.
Adj. Roxbury Park.
8544 BURTON WAY 2 Bd.+1 Ba. • $1,998
$3,200/month
By appointment call Updated bath, kitchen w/
1
Bedroom
1 Bath
granite,
hrwd.,
d/w,
a/c.
*** 310/273-6770 ***
Restricted
entry
+more.
High
Floor.
Extra
Large
*** 310/274-2914 ***
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CENTURY TOWERS
By • 323/828-7170
————— Appt:
• 818/783-4969
BEVERLY HILLS —————
Charming Spacious
2 BDRM. + 2 BATH
$2,100/MO.
Dining room, hardwood
floors, plantation shutters
throughout, A/C, range,
fridge, dishwasher,
laundry facility, parking.
Call 323/650-4600
FANTASTIC VALUE!
BEVERLY HILLS
2 B drm.+ 1 1/ 2 B ath
2nd flr., carpet, stove,
refrigerator, dishwasher,
a/c, prkng., laundry,
storage. Pet O.K.
$1,895/Month
310/275-5304
Rooms. Stone Floors
Walk-in Closet
CENTURY PARK EAST
CENTURY TOWERS
PARK PLACE
CENTURY HILL
LE PARC
CENTURY WOODS
For Sale
See our Ad Sec. 270
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APARTMENT
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APARTMENT
FOR RENT
WEST HOLLYWOOD
612 N. KINGS RD.
LARGE FRONT APT
3RD FLR WITH VIEW
2 BDRMS, 2 BATHS
$1,750/MO.
Large living & dining
room area, balcony,
lots of cabinets in
kitchen + dishwasher,
double oven, laundry
facility, A/C, 2 parking,
swimming pool. No pets.
Call 323/944-0270
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La Cienega/
Melrose Square
2 Bdrm.+2 Bath
With Extra Large
Living Room. Pool,
central air, patio/balcony,
laminate flrs, elevator,
gated entry, 2-car
sub-prkg. $1,695 & Up
310/271-1898
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BEVERLY HILLS ADJ
1135 So. Oakhurst Dr.
2 BDRM, 2 BATH
bright lower unit newly
remodeled with Hdwd
floors, granite and tile
available now. Quiet 7
unit bldg, just South
of BH, parking and
laundry on premises.
$1,675/MO.
Call 323/304-6969
shower, stove, fridge, fridge, stove, ceiling fans,
• STUDIO •
laundry facility, parking.
parking, laundry, non- Available Anytime.
$1,600/Month
smoking building. Close
Wood floors,
760/321-4999
to bus line. $1,200/MO.
stove, refrigerator.
Beverly Hills Adj. Call 310/278-0716
1542 S. Wooster St. or 310/274-6261 $1,045/Mo.
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2 Bdrm. + 2 Bath
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————— BEVERLY HILLS ADJ.
In Great Neighborhood Call 323/951-0369
Or: 909/838-8208
ROBERTSON AREA 1 BEDROOM, 1 BATH
$1,150/MO
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Lots of closets, A/C, stove,
Remodeled 1 Bedroom
fridge, dishwasher, prkng.
Charming and bright
CENTURY PARK EAST
Call 310/652-7829
lower unit with hardGranite, Marble, Wood Floors.
or 310/266-5178
wood floors, Air, washer
Pool, Gym, Sauna, Tennis Court,
& dryer in unit, carport.
BEVERLY HILLS Doorman and Valet Parking.
$1,400/MO.
24 Hour Security Guards.
SINGLE • $1,095
Call 818/766-8011
OLYMPIC and
————— Spacious, private, pool,
320 S. CLARK DR.
*********
310-993-9642
Call 323/252-5600
or 424/249-3012
entry control, BHUSD
OPEN SAT &SUN 1-4
and by appointment
221 S. DOHENY DR.
(south of Wilshire)
1 BDRM. 1 3/4 BATH
$1,650/MO.
With Central A/C, Oak
Cabinets, dishwasher,
Microwave, Gated
Entry, Parking, Laundry
Balcony and Elevator.
8747 Clifton Way
Ron:310/990-1730
COLLECTIBLES
$1,495/MO.
1 Bdrm. • $1,275
** BEVERLY HILLS **
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Miscellaneous
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911 WOOSTER ST.
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BEVERLY HILLS COURIER NOVEMBER 5, 2010 38
OPINION
A View From The New York Times
Maureen Dowd
Talk about fired up and ready to go.
At a Republican victory party suffused with vengeful glee, the
man who body-surfed the anti-establishment wave to become the
next speaker of the House was looking very establishment.
Even though it was predicted, it was still a shock to see voters
humiliate a brilliant and spellbinding young president, who'd had
such a Kennedy-like beginning, while electing a lot of conservative
nuts and promoting this central-casting congressman as the face of
the future: a Republican who had vowed in a written pledge to restore America to old-fashioned values, returning to a gauzy Leave
It To Beaver image that never existed even on the set of that show.
Republicans outcommunicated a silver-tongued president who
was supposed to be Ronald Reagan’s heir in the communications
department.
They were able to convince a lot of Americans that the couple
in the White House was not American enough, not quite “normal,”
too communist, too radical, too Great Society. All that Ivy League
schooling had made them think they knew better than average
American folks, not to mention the founding fathers.
The speaker-in-waiting sounded the alarm: The elites in the
White House were snuffing out the America he grew up in. It only
took two years to realize that their direction for the country was
simply, as he put it: ”a contradiction with the vast majority of
Americans.”
No one gets to take America away from Americans–not even
the American president!
“What the American people were saying is ‘Enough!’ the
speaker-to-be told me, as he savored his own win and his party’s
landslide, which he said was “a historical tide, not just a partisan
election.”
Washington had not been listening but been scorning the
deepest beliefs of Americans. And now that would have to change.
“American people are clearly fed up with what they see as the
decay of American society,” he declared.
The new leader of the House took a more black-and-white approach than the nuanced president. It's enshrined in the Declaration of Independence that you need the consent of the governed
and the governed did not consent.
Ascending to third in the line of succession for the presidency:
a working-class kid who rose in the House as a rabble-rouser willing to throw bombs to score points against powerful Democrats.
Now he’d be helping to run the country, saving it from what he
regarded as an arrogant and out-of-touch clique of elites.
In the revolutionary flush of the electoral map glowing red, he
was floating, working hard to avoid gloating (even though Sean
Hannity was around, gloating about the pain about to befall the
Democratic president).
But he couldn’t resist taking a few jabs at the “liberal media
elite” distorting things, and a few more at a puffed-up White House
that got punished for not paying enough attention to people's anxieties.
“They had an enormous opportunity to bring about change
and they failed, and I don't say that harshly,” he said, adding: “They
really are left-wing elitists and they really thought the country didn't get it, and, therefore, it was their job to give the country the government that they thought the country needed, even if they didn’t
want it. That's the whole history of the health plan.”
There was a lot of talk, as in the campaign, about the misbegotten health care plan, about balancing the budget, about lowering the deficit and taxes, about doing something on abortion and
bloated government. Meanwhile, bloated fat-cat lobbyists were
dancing down K Street.
The next speaker felt that the humbled president should take
the election as a cue to be conciliatory, and proposed they talk in
the next few days. He offered to reach out to Democrats who wanted to work with his side, but also noted that the president would
not be wise to stand in the way of the conservative agenda.
“I prefer to believe that this president, who is clearly very
smart, is quite capable of thinking clearly about a message sent by
the American people,” he said.
He said that, contrary to what the media elite had been jabbering about, he would not use his subpoena power to rain down a
series of investigations on the Democratic administration.
No “witch hunts,” he said. Only “legitimate” investigations.
Yeah, that all worked out for Newt Gingrich. He really came
through. The quotes above came from Gingrich, when I covered
his heady victory in Georgia in the 1994 Republican landslide that
made him speaker.
And, obviously, the Republican House only pursued “legitimate” investigations of Bill Clinton. Sixteen years later, as a weeping John Boehner extolled the American values he learned at his father’s bar—in the moment he dethroned Nancy Pelosi—the new
crop of anarchic conservatives are saying all the same things.
God help the Republic. And, Mr. Speaker, in the immortal
words of Sharron Angle, man up!
© 2010 The New York Times News Service
POLICE BLOTTER
BURGLARY
Occurred between 7 p.m. on
10/28 and 7 a.m. on 10/29 in
100 block of N. Robertson Blvd.
Unknown suspect broke front
window, entered location and
stole cash from register.
Loss $500
Occurred between 6 a.m. on
10/16 and 1:30 p.m. on 10/27.
Unknown suspect entered victim’s home, stole property and
fled through front door.
Loss $15,700
GRAND THEFT
Occurred between 12:30 and 1
a.m. on 10/24 in 9600 block of
Sunset Blvd. Unknown suspect
stole victim’s unattended purse.
Loss: $6,924
Occurred between 9 a.m. and 2
p.m. on 10/25 in 300 block of N.
Oakhurst Dr. Unknown suspect
entered a locked subterranean
apartment garage, used tool to
cut lock and steal property.
Loss $400
Occurred at 3:15 p.m. on 10/27
in 300 block of N. Rodeo Dr.
Suspect: Female White, 30,
5'05'', 180, brown hair–
unknown suspect stole purse
from a chair on outdoor dining
area as victim was on her cellphone. Crime caught on video.
Loss $8,510
in first block of N. La Cienega
Blvd. Suspect: Female White, 30,
brown hair–stole cash box from
restaurant.
Loss $10,040
Occurred at 7 p.m. on 10/27 in
9400 block of W. Sunset Blvd.
Suspect #1: Male Hispanic, 25,
5'08'', 200, bald. Suspect #2:
Male Hispanic, 25, 5'07'', 185,
black hair–backs large truck onto
loading dock which had been
accidentally left open and stole
goods.
Loss $600
Occurred between 7 p.m. on
10/28 and 12:45 a.m. on 10/29
in 400 block of S. Canon Dr.
Unknown suspect entered residence through unlocked window
and stole several items once
inside.
Loss $ 6,200
in 1000 block of N. Beverly Dr.
Unknown suspect gained access
to property during construction
and stole custom sliding doors.
Loss $5,000
ASSAULT
in 400 block of N. Beverly Dr.
Suspect: Male Hispanic, 5'08'',
175, black hair and brown
eyes–hit victim at restaurant.
IDENTITY THEFT
Occurred between 10/14 and
10/15 in 100 block of S.
Spalding Dr. Unknown suspect
used victim’s credit account to
make purchase.
10/27 in 11300 block of S.
Crenshaw Blvd. Unknown suspect attempted to cash victim’s
check.
Occurred on 12/26 in 300 block
of S. El Camino Dr. Unknown
suspect obtained victim’s credit
card and made charges until the
latter was notified of the crime by
his bank.
10/28 in 9400 block of Wilshire
Blvd. Unknown suspect used
victim’s personal information to
open credit card account.
A Look At The Sacramento Scene
FRANKLY SPEAKING
By Stephen Frank
Is it possible that the election Tuesday signaled a new tax
revolt by Californians? Here are the results of “tax” elections.
Michael Coleman, a fiscal policy advisor to the LCC, said the
passage rate for the local measures approximated those of other
recent elections, with about two-thirds of local tax boosts requiring simple majority votes being enacted, but less than half of those
requiring two-thirds votes,” in a Sacramento Bee article.
School bonds passed: 73 percent (only 55 percent vote needed to pass).
School parcel taxes passed: 11 percent.
Of 21 local tax increases on ballot which take a 2/3 vote to
pass: 13 passed while 8 failed.
The most spectacular failure was in ultra-liberal Santa
Barbara, where the “no” vote got almost 2/3 of the total, delivering a resounding “no” against Measure S, the proposed half-cent
sales tax measure to fund a new county jail….
The measure received 58,242 “no” votes (60.83 percent) to
37,508 “yes” votes (39.17 percent).
Big government types use cops, schools and parks as a way to
bankrupt the families and businesses of California. The good people in Santa Barbara refused to be hoodwinked again.
As Andy Caldwell, executive director of the Coalition of
Labor, Agriculture & Business, who argued against the measure,
said: “I don’t take any joy in its defeat.”
He then added on Noozhawk Tuesday night: “We really do
want to see that jail built and operated, but they’ve failed to show
leadership in the community, and it’s a prime example of why
they’re broke. I think the voters smelled a rat.”
Even in Santa Barbara it is time for government to live within
a budget–just like the rest of us.
Then you have the San Diego sales tax and school tax increases failing, miserably. The battle to pass a parcel tax increase
seemed so intimidating that one of its biggest backers, school
board President Richard Barrera, waffled this summer on whether
to keep Prop. J on the ballot at all.
The tax ended up being walloped at the polls. Just before midnight, with 48 percent of the precincts reporting, Prop. J had just
42.6 percent of the vote, far below the two-thirds it would need to
pass. The meager results are a blow to San Diego Unified in the
first race since a new school board majority took the helm.
They could not even get a majority vote to raise taxes—was it
the depression, the overcrowding by illegal aliens or union control forcing the public to say “no” to these government schools?
Either way, the people are clearly saying “no” to the current
policies running government schools.
Then you had San Diego trying to pass Prop. D, a measure to
raise the sales tax. It lost with a 63 percent “no” vote to 37 percent “yes.” Almost 2/3 saying no to further government spending
and taxation.
Even though the electoral tidal wave did not hit California, at
least in some areas we did have some sanity—and San Diego, by
defeating sales and school tax increases, led the way.
Then you have the passage of Prop. 26. This measure means
the legislature cannot pass AB 32 “fees” without a 2/3 vote of the
legislature. Plus, local government will not be able to pass fee
increases on water, garbage collection, businesses, without a 2/3
vote of the people.
Possibly the most important message of the election was this:
–we oppose higher taxes and oppose career politicians sneaking
higher fees onto the economy.
In the future, Prop. 26 will be as important to jobs and the
economy as Prop. 13 has been to homeownership.
California may be a Navy Blue State when it comes to electing Democrats, but it is bright red when passing important ballot
measures. On ballot measures we did exercise fiscal sanity.
Stephen Frank, a political and public policy activist since 1960, is
the publisher of the California Political News and Viewswww.capoliticalnews.com.
10/29 in 800 block of Loma different businesses.
Vista Dr. Unknown suspect Occurred between 10/20 and
phoned government agency and 10/22 in 200 block of S. Hamel
had monthly check diverted Dr. Suspect: Male Hispanic,
electronically to another party’s 42–altered victim’s checks and
passed them at banks.
checking account.
FORGERY
Occurred between 9/4 and 10/5 10/28 in 700 block of N. Elm
in 400 block of Castle Pl. Dr. Unknown suspect obtained
Unknown suspect obtained vic- victim’s check, changed payee
tim’s checks, forged the latter’s information and amount and
signature and cashed them at cashed it.
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CLIF SMITH
BEVERLY HILLS VOTES TO
RIGHT OF LOS ANGELES
COUNTY; CALIFORNIA DRIFTS
INTO THE PACIFIC OCEAN
Although this clearly remains a Democrat-voting city,
Beverly Hills voters cast their ballots considerably to the right of
Los Angeles County. Only Steve Cooley, our highly respected
district attorney, out-polled his (or her) Democrat opponent of
all statewide races.
Jerry Brown took 55 percent of Beverly Hills vs. 63 percent
of LA County; Barbara Boxer scored 56 percent of the Beverly
Hills vote vs. 62 percent in the county. Similar percentages
applied to nearly all the other races and coincided with the outcome statewide. Cooley captured Beverly Hills with 53 percent
of our vote vs. only 39 percent in LA County.
So, despite its reputation for liberal/left voting, Beverly Hills
more nearly approached an even political balance with an
actual vote-count difference of approximately 900 voters. That
is, if 900 voters switched votes, the result would have been the
opposite in the City
Statewide, California tossed aside limits on taxing and
spending, refused to stop the economically suicidal AB 32,
which will force out of business what few manufacturing jobs
remain, and gave the majority party in Sacramento the unfettered ability to raise our taxes. Incoming flights from Texas,
Nevada, Utah and Arizona are booked solid for the next month
with business-development people from those states coming to
get more of our dwindling companies to move to their states.
We are obviously determined to complete our financial suicide.
At the same time, however, the state rejected a small tax hike
(supposed for the parks we already pay for) and stopped elected politicians from drawing their own voting districts. The conclusion would be that Californians believe in pure majority rule
but want to set the rules themselves.
It appears that the economic disaster now gripping the
country did not impress Californians. Apparently sunshine and
great weather makes up for lack of jobs. It could also be that the
leading Republican candidates – Whitman and Fiorina – failed
to present viable alternatives other than the fact that they
weren’t "them." That is never a very convincing argument.
For now, though, in California the Republican brand does
not sell. Even those of us who are Republicans are not clear on
what, if anything, they were trying to convince us to buy. We
really hope that Gov.-elect Jerry Brown does better this time
around than last time. Those of us who remember Jerry Version
1.0 and 1.1 do not have fond memories of his stewardship, but
he tells us he has learned and is wiser.
We do have to give a nod to Brown for what we believe
was the best quip of the campaign. He cited Ms. Whitman’s ad
touting the attractiveness of California 30 years ago when she
and family moved here, then thanked her for the endorsement
since he was the governor at the time.
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OPINION
Publisher Clifton S. Smith, Jr
Senior Editor
Editor-at-Large
Special Sections Editor
Assistant Editor
RABBI JACOB PRESSMAN
WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE
One of the saddest aspects of the recent
American Election Day for me has been watching
and listening to most of the candidates for office,
and proponents of changes in the law spewing
lies, half-truths and vicious character assassinations at one another. I opine the candidates who
indulged in such practices carry a heavy burden
of guilt with them into the future, whether they
are the victors or the vanquished. I yearn for the
wisdom to frame words which could lessen the
heartburn we all must be suffering these postpolitical-bellum days this weekend, but I have
them not.
I find it difficult we have not already severely limited the time and money invested in these
mid-term elections. This time around the campaigning began the moment the previous election was over, and millions and millions of dollars were spent which could have been better
used. For example, one candidate poured $150
million or so into the campaign. My wife and I
figured $1 million each could have been granted
to 140 public schools, and still left $10 million
LETTERS
My suggestion, if and when
this gets to Beverly Hills. Why
not dig two tunnels, one atop
the other. (2 digs for the price of
1.5?) Have a toll tunnel for cars
and trucks (funded by private
enterprise) from east of to west
of B.H. with a split at Santa
Monica Boulevard. Since most
of our traffic (by studies and
growing) are through, why not
turn a negative situation to a
positive one and make our City
the most livable in the nation.
This would certainly connect the
north and south sides and create greater harmony. (Think of
Chicago, lower Wacker Drive as
an example.) The subway may
or may not be used by many but
the auto/truck will be with
us–probably forever.
Robert Weisman
******
I recently received a ticket
in the mail for running a red
light at the corner of Wilshire
and Whittier, an intersection I
frequently use. I was astounded
to see the fine was $465. It is
inconceivable to me the City
can charge that much money for
an infraction such as running a
red light.
Clearly, the City must have
little better to do with its budget
than install costly equipment
capable of providing online
video of an indiscretion at an
intersection which features the
unsightly, unused RobinsonsMay building and the entrance
to The Beverly Hilton which perpetually looks like a construction site. However, since the
City has chosen to do so, it must
be making robber-baron profits
so allow me to provide some
suggestions of what to do with
this windfall.
•launch a civic investigation
into what committee plans the
City bus routes where there are
often multiple busses, usually
empty, traveling in a row needlessly clogging the City’s streets;
•figure out a way to eliminate
the archaic drainage ditches
which wreak havoc on the
undersides of residents cars;
for a campaign.
Oh, some say, this is not the first nor will it
be the last time of costly attacks and counterattacks a populace enjoying freedom of speech
will be waging. In one way, we are among the
few among the nations so blessed. Throughout
the ages people have bled and died because they
were caught between groups lusting for power
over other groups they dubbed “the enemy.”
These United States were once almost split in
two in a bloody war: the uncivil Civil War.
President Abraham Lincoln in his second
Inaugural Address spoke words then, in 1865,
which I quote now because they express more
eloquently than I am capable of doing, what I
desperately wish to say to our nation as we face
the future sharply divided by the campaign:
“With malice toward none; with charity for all,
with firmness in the right as God gives us to see
the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are
in; to bind up the nation’s wounds;…to do all
which may achieve a just and lasting peace
among ourselves and with all nations.”
•improve the decidedly displeasing eyesore on Santa
Monica Boulevard coming west
where a vacant, weed-infested
protuberance bordered by a
rusty, chain-link fence “invites”
guests into our fair City.
But Beverly Hills, I hear you.
Times are tough. I know you
need my $465 for your “signs
blocking other signs” project at
Burton Way and Doheny Drive.
All of us are victimized by
your Orwellian battery of cameras at intersections where the
yellow light is marketly shorter
than those of its peers. Not
everyone passing through the
City is a millionaire. I think
receiving a fine of $150 or so
would have gotten the point
across.
Julian Kaplan
******
It is unclear why the issues
raised by this small group of residents were not allayed by
Metro's considerable outreach to
the community.
Having attended some of the
Wilshire Subway community
meetings, I can't imagine a better, more thorough presentation
of safe subway tunneling under
impacted homes and businesses.
Since I don't know the homeowners in opposition, I can't
question the sincerity of their
concerns. What I can comment
on is the wisdom of heeding
addressable concerns at the
expense of a better station location to make the subway a more
attractive alternative to driving
for more Angelenos.
With two homeowner lawsuits underway over the route of
the Expo Line, Metro needs to
stand its ground having exhaustively studied the Wilshire
Subway route. Caving in to the
homeowners after all of that
work would embolden opponents and open the door to a
flood of meritless lawsuits on all
of Metro's pending projects. The
time has come to stop studying
and to start building the Wilshire
Subway to west of the 405.
To the handful of homeowners who oppose the best route
through Century City, it is time to
say: “Thanks for sharing your
concerns. We have taken them
into account and look forward to
welcoming you aboard at
Constellation and Avenue of the
Stars soon. Watch the closing
doors.”
Joel Epstein
Cartoon for The Courier by Janet Salter
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