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On the table: Parkingstructures, Tongva Park,Olympic Drive extension
BY DAVID MARK SIMPSONDaily Press Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO Santa Monica officials are inSacramento today to fight for 11Redevelopment Agency-funded projects,which the state is refusing to transfer.
The six Downtown parking structures,Tongva Park, and an extension of OlympicDrive make up the properties that the stateDepartment of Finance is disputing.
“We believe that the properties are clear-ly government-purpose assets that should beowned and operated by the city of SantaMonica,” wrote Andy Agle, director of eco-nomic development, in an e-mail. “Meetingwith the Department of Finance provides uswith an opportunity to provide key factsrelated to the properties and to answer anyquestions from the DOF staff.”
Agle, City Manager Rod Gould,Assemblymember Richard Bloom (D-SantaMonica), and State Sen. Ted Lieu’s (D-SantaMonica) chief of staff will attend the meet-ings in Sacramento.
In 2011, seeking to plug a budget short-fall, Gov. Jerry Brown recommended the dis-solution of all state redevelopment agencies.The California Supreme Court backed thedecision.
In August, the DOF sent a letter to CityHall identifying the disputed properties.
Last month, City Hall agreed to pay theDOF nearly $57 million in a settlement overunrelated RDA funds.
The DOF is just the first of three stateagencies seeking to recoup RDA money, theothers being the State Controller’s andAttorney General’s offices.
Tongva Park was not complete at the timethe letter was sent and therefore is not eligi-ble for transfer, according to the DOF.
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DOWNTOWN The uncertain future of theCivic Auditorium tops the list of naggingproblems faced by the organizers of theworld’s largest film market, AFM, whichopens in Santa Monica today.
When the American Film Market, whichwill bring an estimated $20 million to thelocal economy this week, inked a 2011 deal
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Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013
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Photo courtesy NASA/JPL-CaltechBIG HONOR: June Lockhart is awarded the Exceptional Public Achievement Medal for inspiring the public on space exploration.
BY GREG ASCIUTTOSpecial to the Daily Press
DOWNTOWN When walking along the ThirdStreet Promenade, it’s hard not to notice theeyesore that former sports bar YankeeDoodles has become.
“Closed for remodeling” signs havereplaced some 115 former employees, andthe settling of dust is now more audible thanthe screams of sports fans.
The three-month closure of YankeeDoodles is the result of a lengthy insuranceinvestigation of the July 29 flash fire thaterupted from behind a broiler in the kitchen,said restaurant owner Herb Astrow. Thoughthe fire did little structural damage, the samecannot be said of the water used to extin-guish it.
“When something like this happens, liter-ally ... thousands of gallons of water arepumped in,” said Astrow.
Resulting damage to the floors, walls andfurniture account for what Astrow estimatedto be a loss of roughly $1 million, thoughthat number has yet to be finalized byCrusader Insurance, whose representativesdeclined to comment for this story.
“They’re ... trying to pin down exactly ifthere’s anybody who’s responsible — maybethe machinery manufacturers or a faultypipe,” Astrow said, noting that he is opti-mistic the drawn-out process will concludein the next few weeks. “They are takingexcessively long, much longer than [it]should normally take under these circum-stances.”
Once a payout is finalized, discussionsregarding the long-term future of the restau-rant can renew between Astrow and TuckerInvestment Group, owners of the 1410 ThirdSt. building where Yankee Doodles is a ten-ant. Last May, the company stated theirdesire to reduce the square footage of therestaurant and convert its ground floor intoretail space for new businesses, but the firehas effectively put that on hold.
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BY GREG ASCIUTTOSpecial to the Daily Press
PASADENA More than four decades afterfloating among the stars on the Americansci-fi hit “Lost in Space,” actress and long-time Santa Monica resident June Lockharthas been honored by NASA for her impacton space exploration.
Lockhart, 88, received the agency’sExceptional Public Achievement Medal lastmonth at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratoryin Pasadena. The award is given to non-government individuals who have madesignificant public contributions to NASAthroughout their careers.
“This is extraordinary — I’m so delight-ed,” Lockhart said.
Alongside “Big Bang Theory” producerBill Prady and American conductor Emil deCou, she is the third entertainer to receive
the medal, but just the first actress to do so.“She’s been a really great rousing cheer-
leader for the agency and space explorationin general,” said NASA multimedia liaisonBert Ulrich. “We wanted to return our grat-itude by giving her this award.”
Aside from starring on the 1960s CBSseries as the mother of the space-wanderingRobinson family, Lockhart has long been avolunteer spokesperson for NASA. Sincethe ‘70s, she has made many public appear-ances and service announcements for theorganization, been a part of countless mis-sion liftoffs and befriended scores of astro-nauts.
“I have so many friends among theastronaut group saying that watching ‘Lostin Space’ when they were little boys madethem know what they wanted to do,” shesaid. “It’s astonishing that it inspired somany people, but it’s lovely to know that.”
As of next month, Lockhart will havespent 80 years in the entertainment indus-try. Among her professional accolades are a1948 “Outstanding Performance by aNewcomer,” Tony Award and two “BestActress” Emmy nominations. Her extensivelist of appearances includes starring roleson television classics “Lassie” and “PetticoatJunction” as well as guest spots on modernfavorites like “Grey’s Anatomy” and“Beverly Hills, 90210.”
A Santa Monica resident for 26 years,Lockhart is highly involved in the com-munity. Along with being a leader of herlocal neighborhood association, she isalso outspoken in her support for theSanta Monica Mounted Posse, a unit ofofficers and horses that has served the citysince 1930.
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3WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2013Inside Scoop
Opinion Commentary4 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2013 We have you covered
OPINIONS EXPRESSED are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of the Santa Monica Daily Press staff. Guest editorials from residents are encouraged, as are letters to the editor. Letters will be published on a space-available basis. It is our intention to publish all letters we receive, except those that are libelous or are unsigned. Preference will be given to those that are e-mailed to [email protected]. All letters must include the author’s name and telephone number for purposes of verification. All letters and guest editorials are subject to editing for space and content.
Lincoln Boulevard thanks you Editor:
The Lincoln Boulevard Task Force members wish tothank the 50-plus folks who came out to “Harvest theLitter” from the boulevard on Saturday. The event waswildly successful and we picked up 30 bags of weeds,litter, and other debris from the 10 Freeway south toOzone Avenue. Twelve of those bags were from wherethe freeway ramps meet Lincoln. I am not sure … thatarea has ever been cleaned up.
Students from Santa Monica College’s SustainabilityWorkshops were a large contingent of our workforce.
The event wrapped up with a tour by mural king andcoordinator of the two dozen colorful murals which nowgrace the walls of businesses south of Pico Boulevard.We are looking for dirty walls to paint and decoratealong Lincoln Boulevard.
We appreciate the contribution of free brew forcleanup participants (over 21 of course) by the formerowner of TRiP, John De Coster, and the new owners,Jon Stephenson and Hans Gophlen. Printing Palace’sMark Moralez provided us with posters and fliers forthe event free of charge and Starbucks at Lincoln andMarine gave us coffee for the event. Sarah Casey ofSarah Casey Design, and son, Charlie Stinsmuehlen, ledthe sidewalk chalk art installation. Two sock art instal-lations appeared at the freeway ramps.
This was our second cleanup as a part of the effortto make Lincoln Boulevard “safe, clean, beautiful andgreen.” We are pleased at the resurfacing and restrip-ing which occurred in August and we are hoping forlighted crosswalks, since the street is a veritable high-way and, indeed, several pedestrian deaths haveoccurred there, one quite recently.
We look forward to the promise of steam cleaning ofthe sidewalks, the planting of additional trees andother enhancements to the boulevard.
A most satisfying event!Killeen Pilon
Santa Monica
Healthcare help Editor:
Since 1993, the League of Women Voters of theUnited States has actively supported healthcarereform, including those policies which promote accessto a basic level of quality care at an affordable cost toall U.S. residents.
While the rollout of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)clearly has had its problems, the League of WomenVoters of Santa Monica wants to help our community’sresidents take advantage of the law.
In 2010, two decades of league advocacy to ensureaccess to healthcare for all Americans bore fruit at thenational level when the ACA was signed into law.
The League of Women Voters of Santa Monica wantsto see that its provisions extend to all of our city’s eli-gible residents.
That’s why we’re co-sponsoring an informationalmeeting this Saturday at Virginia Avenue Park, whichwill feature a workshop by the Westside Family HealthCenter, including personalized enrollment assistance inEnglish and Spanish.
This outreach event will take place Saturday morn-ing, Nov. 9 from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the Thelma TerryRoom at Virginia Avenue Park, 2200 Virginia Ave. ToR.S.V.P. contact Ben Tolksdorf at (310) 450-2191, ext.234 or [email protected]
We hope to see many of our community membersthere.
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IT’S NOT THE “TALE OF TWO CITIES,” IT’Sthe tale of two cousins, in one city, our city.
But listening to their tales of growing up inSanta Monica in the 1950s and ‘60s, it’s not sofar off to muse, "It was the best of times, theworst of times, the age of wisdom and fool-ishness, the epoch of belief and incredulity,the season of light and of darkness, the springof hope and the winter of despair, we hadeverything before us, we had nothing … .”
Through it all, they both never consid-ered living anywhere else.
For someone like me, born and bred invery different elsewheres [sic], but an OceanPark resident almost 30 years, it takes a leapof imagination to conjure up their play-ground, because in the Ocean Park neigh-borhood where they grew up and where weall now reside, things were very different.
Marty Liboff, the elder by 10 years, madeit easier to picture by bringing along some ofhis old postcards and maps, and Joel Markkept disappearing around the corner as wetalked at his kitchen table, to come back withmore fistfuls of old family photographs tofill in the lines and spark more memories.
Joel and I have been through a lot togethersince we met on the basketball court at JoslynPark nearly 20 years ago. His son was in dia-pers and my daughter was just starting schoolat SMASH, and both often tagged along andhad great times at the kiddy playground there.His daughter had yet to arrive when we met.
I love playing one-on-one basketball withJoel. We often play an hour or more and it’sa good workout and fun because we’re pret-ty evenly matched. (So how does he manageto win nearly every game?) But I took animmediate dislike to him. Brash, cocky, self-proclaimed obnoxious, I was certain he wasthat kind of New Yawker [sic].
After some time I was shocked to find outhe was born in Santa Monica and never left,except for college. The rest of my assessmentof him was pretty accurate, but I soon cameto know and understand him as a unique,brilliant, accomplished and complex guy whowould run over his grandmother on the wayto the basket, but is a passionate birdwatcher,loves to chat with little kids, drives hot carsand dates gorgeous women (he’s divorced),and escorts spiders out rather than squishthem. He could buy a mansion but has livedin a modest little place he rents from an oldfamily friend, ever since I’ve known him.Because he likes it there. He’s been shootinghoops at Joslyn for more than 40 years.
Marty I had observed for years before Iknew he was Joel’s cousin. It’s hard to miss
Marty. He’s a Santa Monica institution. Bigstraw hat, big sunglasses, gray dreadlocks downto his knees (“I started growing them the dayBob Marley died”), always out walking with hisbuddy Pharaoh, a one-eared white “shepsky”(German Shepherd-Husky cross). Marty and Inever had more than an extended conversationon the street, so it was a treat to sit with him andhis cousin for a couple of hours. Marty is also avery bright guy, insightful, socially aware andarticulate, and seems to live exactly the life hewants to live. How many can say that?
The item he brought along that I foundmost fascinating was a simple line drawingstreet map of the westernmost part of OceanPark. All those streets on the map, wherethey grew up — gone, now not even a mem-ory to those of us who came later and knewonly the beach blight of the massive SeaColony II and the giant dual towers.
My first inkling that my Ocean Park was alot different than the OP in Joel’s head waswhen he told me years ago, “You know, thereused to be a golf course there.” Hmm.Doesn’t seem big enough for a golf course.But I’m not about to research Santa Monicahistory to appreciate the cousins’ stories. Itwas fun to hear Joel and Marty reminisceand argue good-naturedly about what yearsomething happened.
They lived in the last block before thebeach, on different streets but back to backacross the alley. When the area was razed fordevelopment in the ‘60s (“It looked likeDresden after the bombing,” Marty said),both families moved about three blocks (Joelremembers oh so slowly and carefully walk-ing over his goldfish in its bowl) to homes onSecond Street, not two blocks from eachother. Marty still lives there, almost, in theapartment building next door. His boyhoodhome became another apartment building.Joel is all the way up on Third Street now,where he’s been for decades.
I’ve got five pages of notes from our ses-sion, and to cover even half of it I’d have towrite a small book. Or, I can trot out a few oftheir mental snapshots in my columns overthe next few months. Like the Saturdaymorning serials at the Dome Theater on thepier (“My mom would give me a quarter formy brother and me and we’d be gone allday,” Marty remembered with a big smile)— to be continued.
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THE TERMS “BLUE STATE” AND “RED STATE”were coined about a dozen years ago by jour-nalist Tim Russert and were based on thecolored maps being used by the televisionnetworks to graphically display presidentialelection results. Although originally basedon the arbitrary decision to label Republicanvoting states red, and those supporting theDemocratic candidate blue, these colorshave also come to represent liberal (blue)and conservative (red).
The latest Howard Jarvis TaxpayersAssociation Legislative Report Card demon-strates that, in terms of state representation,California continues to be the bluest of blue.But while California has a reputation as beingultra-liberal on a host of issues, for purposes ofthe HJTA Report Card, we focused solely onhow legislative votes were cast on tax issues.
Taken as a whole, the Report Card showsthat a preponderance of lawmakers activelysupport the redistribution of wealth, notfrom one citizen to another, but from all cit-izens to the government. This allows themajority party in the Legislature to continueto reward their most active backers, the gov-ernment employee unions. Governmentemployees in California are the highest paidin all 50 states and it is no secret that moneyto meet the payroll must come from taxpay-ers.
The HJTA Legislative Report Card isdesigned to help Californians gauge howtheir state representatives are actually per-forming on taxpayer-related issues. For the2013 legislative year, 20 bills were used toevaluate and grade voting records.Practically all of these bills deal with taxincreases — often masquerading as fees —or direct assaults on Proposition 13 andProposition 218, the Right to Vote on TaxesAct.
There is no question that the conse-quences of what occurs “Under the Dome”are very real and personal for average tax-payers. For example, decisions made by leg-islators in the last five years have helpedensure we have the highest income, sales,and gas taxes in the nation. These are factsmost lawmakers fail to mention when dis-cussing their voting records. The lettergrades allow Californians to see past thepoliticians’ self-promoting press releases andglossy campaign mailers touting their recordin Sacramento.
Of the 120 members of the Legislature,three times as many (79) earned an “F” asthose who were awarded (25) an “A.” This is
more alarming when it is considered thatmany of these lawmakers will be safelyensconced in their offices for another 11years due to voter approval last year of anextension in term limits. And with increas-ing numbers of legislators from both partiescapitulating to pressure from special interestlobbyists and government employee unionleaders, the environment for taxpayers inSacramento could get a lot worse before itgets better.
However, there are some lights in theCapitol that are still burning bright. Ninelawmakers achieved a perfect score by stand-ing with taxpayers through thick and thin.Senators Anderson, Gaines, Knight, Nielsenand Wyland, and Assemblymembers Dahle,Donnelly, Gains and Jones have providedheroic service to taxpayers in 2013.
To view the entire Report Card and seehow your representative faired, please visitwww.HJTA.org and look under “HotTopics.” And if you want to have influenceon their future votes, we recommend youcontact your representatives to thank orexcoriate them as you see fit.
Editor’s note: Assemblymember Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica, received an “F” on the Report Card, asdid State Sen. Ted Lieu, D-Santa Monica.
JJOONN CCOOUUPPAALL is president of the Howard JarvisTaxpayers Association — California’s largestgrass-roots taxpayer organization dedicated tothe protection of Proposition 13 and theadvancement of taxpayers’ rights.
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BY KELLEN HENRYAssociated Press
NEW YORK There’s no shortage of buzzabout beekeeping these days.
From environmentalists worried aboutdisappearing colonies to foodies seekinglocally sourced liquid gold, lots of new bee-keepers are itching to roll down their sleeves.
With cities like New York lifting beekeep-ing bans, and with a wealth of new books,online videos and meet-up groups, learningthe basics is easier than ever.
But as a hobbyist beekeeper myself, whoonce moved a hive full of bees fromWashington, D.C., to New York during acareer change, I can also tell you that thesweet rewards of homemade honey don’tcome without some sticky practical chal-lenges.
One of those, of course, is facing the beesthemselves.
“You can learn 99 percent of beekeepingon YouTube, but you need to know thatwhen you’re actually there and you’re dig-ging into a box filled with 50,000 stinginginsects, that you’re good with that,” saidChase Emmons, managing partner and api-ary director at Brooklyn Grange, a rooftopfarm in New York that offers some hands-ontraining at its hives.
Whether you’re creating a small businessor just planning to enjoy your own honey,here are some realistic pointers on themoney, space and neighborly grace requiredof a beekeeper.
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATIONWhere you keep your bees is an impor-
tant part of how to keep them. A sunny, out-of-the-way spot with good drainage is best.Scope out a location that won’t trip upunsuspecting neighbors, curious pets orrepairmen.
Your hive should also be convenient forfrequent inspections. Remember you’ll becarrying equipment and removing heavyboxes of honey at harvest time. If you haveto scale a rickety roof ladder to see your bees,you might be tempted to neglect your duties.
Make sure your landlord is on board andbeekeeping is legal in your city. Then takesome time to sell the idea to your neighbors.Emmons recommends coming armed with afew jars of honey to sweeten the deal.
“The last thing you need is unhappyneighbors,” he said.“You can catch more flieswith honey.”
NOT JUST A WALK IN THE PARKThe good news is you don’t have to hire a
bee sitter when you leave town on vacation.Once the hive is up and running, the bees are
quite self-sufficient in their daily needs. Butpreventing pests and swarms, as well asextracting honey, will require some time andeven some hard, physical work over thecourse of the year.
A deep hive chamber full of honey canweigh as much as 90 pounds, and activelymanaging your hive will require lifting andmaneuvering those bulky boxes. You’ll alsobe suiting up in heavy clothing and workingin the hot sun.
As a new beekeeper, you should maketime to attend a class or meet-up group ontop of your bee yard work. You might evenmeet a potential partner to help you shoul-der the load.
HONEY MONEYBefore you take gold out of your hive,
you’ll have to put some in. It might cost youaround $400 to get set with wooden hiveequipment, tools and the bees themselves,though much of your equipment can beused for several years before being replaced.
Shop around before ordering, andappraise deluxe, all-in-one kits carefully.They may be easier than buying equipment ala carte but they often include supplies youdon’t really need. If you’re handy, you’ll alsofind ample specs online for building some ofyour own equipment.
When it comes to purchasing, there’sstrength in numbers. Joining a bee group is agood way to get in on cheaper bulk orders orshipping discounts, swap used equipmentand pass the hat on big purchases, like priceyhoney extracting equipment.
SCRATCHING THE ITCHUsing good practices and inspecting the
hive at appropriate times can go a long waytoward minimizing stings. But they will hap-pen from time to time.
Assuming you don’t have a severe allergyto apitoxin, the venom in honey-bee stings,the worst you’ll have to endure is some localpain, itching and swelling that’s treatablewith over-the-counter medicine.
If you’re afraid of bee stings, rememberit’s OK to go heavy on the protective cloth-ing if it encourages you to visit the hive,especially while you’re getting used to han-dling the bees. Don’t let beekeeper machis-mo intimidate you into doing hive inspec-tions in a T-shirt if it makes you nervous.
In general, be flexible to trying a differentapproach if yours isn’t working.
“When you have 10 beekeepers in aroom, you’re going to have 12 opinions.Humans have been doing it for 10,000 yearsand there are really strong opinions,”Emmons said. “Go with what you’re com-fortable with.”
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Home beer and spirit-making havebecome popular hobbies. Bars and beveragestores feature a growing range of artisanalspirits and craft brews. Cocktail parties areback in vogue.
And retailers are responding to all thisimbibing by offering furniture, barwareand accessories with cosmopolitan flair.All you need are a few invitations, snacksand some good music for the party tobegin.
Let’s pop the cork on what’s new:“Nowadays, entertaining does not have
to mean having a glitzy full bar. Bar cartshave become more delicate, refined, andsmaller in scale, so you can tuck them intoa corner of a room or blend them in withthe rest of the furniture,” says Verandamagazine’s market editor Catherine LeeDavis.
West Elm’s Parker slim-profile cart inacorn-stained walnut veneer with brass railtrim has a mid-century vibe. The walnut-stained Dodson cart features a flip-downfront concealing a mirror-lined interior withplenty of storage. And a cart in polishednickel with two foxed mirror shelves evokesArt Deco glamour. (www.westelm.com)
If you want the look of a built-in bar,consider Pottery Barn’s modular collectionof wine grids and drawered cabinets. Inblack or mahogany finish, the pieces can beconfigured to look like a hutch or buffet.(www.potterybarn.com)
Davis says that with barware, the trend istoward shaking it up. “We see lots of differ-ent materials like hammered silver, tortoise,or shagreen,” she says. “It’s all about mixingand matching. After all, entertaining shouldbe about having fun.”
Gent Supply Co. has a natty collection ofcoasters, glassware and flasks printed withillustrations of turn-of-the-century gentle-men duelers, narwhals, anchors, and animalsdressed in distinguished garb.(www.gentsupplyco.com)
Artist Richard E. Bishop, known forwildlife etchings in the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s,has his work on an array of bar glasses anddecanters. Ducks, trout, foxes and horses seta “country house” tone. (www.richardebish-op.com)
A punchbowl that rests in the clutchesof an octopus, and a sculpted shell heldby a delicate coral stand are part of analuminum barware collection at ZGallerie. There’s also a faux crocodileservice tray in rich eggplant, studded
with silver rivets, that makes a sophisti-cated statement.
Silver cocktail picks and stir sticks toppedwith airplanes evoke the Second World War.And a mirrored sign with phrases like“Stirred” and “Straight Up” printed in a goldretro font would make great wall art.(www.zgallerie.com)
JC Penney has a whimsical yet elegantwine decanter from Michael Graves Designthat features his signature bird as built-inaerator. (www.jcp.com)
At Homegoods, there are hammeredmetal cocktail shakers with handy drinkrecipes printed on the side. Standing winebuckets are useful accessories, leaving moreroom on dining tables and buffets for nicely-sized tools — small muddlers, sieves, scoopsand tongs, for example — that will haveamateur bartenders looking like experts.( w w w . h o m e g o o d s . c o m ;www.surlatable.com)
Making a good martini may be an art, buthow about making your own gin? No bath-tub is required, just a kit like one fromUncommon Goods containing all the spices,juniper berries and accessories needed toturn garden-variety vodka into a customgin.
New York artist Aymie Switzer’s laser-etched cedar coasters depict neighborhoodmaps of many major cities, includingPhiladelphia, Chicago, Boston and SanFrancisco. Coasters recycled from old tiresare stamped by Los Angeles artists withdifferent graphic number fonts. AndColorado designer David Rasmussen’sblack walnut stemware is distinctive andbeautiful. All atwww.uncommongoods.com .
Whether it’s a swanky gathering or acasual movie night, provide your drinkingguests with a variety of interesting treats.Pier 1’s Tasting Party collection includesone-bite ceramic dishes, shot glasses andspoons which can be stored in your homebar. Ebony buffalo-horn condimentspoons and mottled horn bowls fromWilliams-Sonoma would add flair.(www.pier1.com; www.williams-sonoma.com)
If you’re setting up a first apartment anddon’t have much money, consider giving anold nightstand or tray table new life as aminiature bar. Hit flea markets and junkyards for salvaged tool trolleys, medical sup-ply carts or old microwave stands and spiffthem up with paint, paper or other decora-tive materials like stick-on tiles and mirror.The web has many artful ideas, including atwww.curbly.com.
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Yet his candidacy, along with that of for-mer lawmaker and Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado,a moderate Republican, is unlikely to receivea warm welcome from the GOP establish-ment. After decades of sinking registrationnumbers, the party has sought to rebranditself so it can appeal to a wider variety ofvoters, including Latinos.
Many party delegates had hoped to shiftthe party to the political center and keep thefocus off the divisive issues that have beencentral to Donnelly’s previous campaigns,including his history as a formerMinuteman border enforcer.
Tenoch Flores, a spokesman for theCalifornia Democratic Party, said stateRepublicans are following congressionalRepublicans, who talked about rebrandingthe party after losing to President BarackObama in 2012 but instead supported a par-tial federal government shutdown this fall.
“If anything, this just shows thatRepublicans are far from being able to moveto the center and move to whereCalifornians are,” Flores said.
Mindful of the need to connect with abroader base of voters, Donnelly on Tuesdaywas flanked by a diverse group of supportersat the furniture factory in the Los AngelesCounty city of Baldwin Park where heannounced his candidacy.
The official filing period to run for gover-nor does not begin until Feb. 10.
The party’s official position will be lessrelevant for any of the Republicans in 2014,the first year in which candidates for gover-nor are subject to the state’s top-two pri-mary. In that system, the two highest vote-getters in June advance to the Novembergeneral election.
Whoever emerges will face a dauntingchallenge in Brown, the 75-year-old gover-nor who returned to office in 2011 after firstserving from 1975 to 1983. Brown has yet toannounce a bid for re-election, but there islittle doubt that he will run.
After becoming the longest-serving gov-ernor earlier this month, Brown quipped last
week that: “I’m only in the third year of myfirst of my second terms.”
Brown has a 49 percent approval ratingamong likely voters, according to aSeptember Public Policy Institute ofCalifornia poll, and has nearly $16 million inhis two campaign committees. He also suc-cessfully shepherded a budget through thestate Legislature this year with little dramaafter voters approved billions of dollars intemporary sales and income taxes last year.
Donnelly, who represents a conservativeInland Empire district, has less than $40,000combined in his two campaign accounts.Although his candidacy is likely to appeal to teaparty sympathizers, Donnelly said he believes itwill also resonate beyond the far right.
“I know that people have lost faith thatyou can win anything with grass roots, but Ithink we’re living in a unique time inCalifornia, where there’s so many peoplethat feel like there’s something wrong,”Donnelly said.
Donnelly and Maldonado could also facea challenge from a political and social mod-erate who has been courting donors: NeelKashkari, the former assistant secretary ofthe U.S. Treasury who oversaw the federalbank bailout under both Presidents GeorgeW. Bush and Obama.
Kashkari, 40, has set up a website andhired consultants but has not yet decidedwhether to run, said his spokesman, AaronMcLear, although “he continues to travel thestate to determine how he can help solve theproblems facing Californians.”
Maldonado, 46, the state’s former lieu-tenant governor who ran unsuccessfully forCongress last year, initially launched a cam-paign challenging Brown’s realignment law,which has shifted thousands of lower-leveloffenders out of state prison and into coun-ty supervision.
He has since shifted back to his moremoderate image and announced his supportfor gay marriage. On Tuesday, he released a“day in the life” video of himself on the cam-paign trail.
Maldonado has raised $313,000 so farthis year but spent much of it on a high-priced campaign team that he has sincefired.
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Gould responded to the claims, pointingout, in a letter he sent to the DOF inSeptember, that Tongva Park got itsCertificate of Occupancy on Aug. 1 and wasbeing used by the public on Sept. 10.
“We should be able to resolve the status ofthis land quickly,” he wrote in the letter.
The parking structures, the DOF said,“donot serve a government purpose,” and aretherefore ineligible for transfer.
Gould responded by pointing to SantaBarbara’s public parking structures, whichthe DOF previously concluded were govern-ment-purpose assets. He said there were“close parallels” between the cities’ parkingstructures.
He went on to note that the structureswere acquired and built with funds fromproperty owner assessments, in-lieu feespaid by building owners, and bonds issuedby the Parking Authority.
Redevelopment funds were used only toperform seismic retrofitting.
The Olympic Drive extension was identi-
fied only as “vacant land” by the DOF.Gould noted that while the project is still
under construction, the development agree-ment was executed in 2008.
“It is unthinkable that the public streetwill not open in coming months,” he statedin the letter.
The developer, Related Company, isseeking permission to work extra hours tocomplete the roadway, Gould wrote in an e-mail. Related is also building hundreds ofaffordable-housing units and market ratecondos in the Civic Center adjacent toTongva Park.
Neither Gould nor Agle could quantifythe potential financial impact of a DOFdecision to withhold the transfer of any ofthe projects.
“We don’t expect immediate resolution ofthe dispute over our parking structures,”Gould wrote in an e-mail. “Indeed, it may beseveral months before we hear from theDOF staff again, based on the experience ofother cities. We have some very strong factsto present and hope for constructive dia-logue.”
to continue to meet in Santa Monicathrough 2017, organizers were under theimpression that the Civic would receive amassive renovation. A deal to add a largestate-of-the-art AMC theater in SantaMonica was in the works. Plans for afford-able hotels on Fifth Street were movingalong.
The Civic was shuttered in July and itsfuture is now in flux, thanks to the dissolu-tion of City Hall’s Redevelopment Agency,which would have funded the project.
Its future is the top item on AFM’s “prob-lem list,” said managing director JonathanWolf.
Next on the list is the lack of new the-aters, he said.
“There used to be 23 theater screens inSanta Monica and now there are 15 andnone with stadium seating,” he said. “For aworld-class film market it’s creating somereal struggles for us. We’re screening films inseven hotel ballrooms. It’s hard to tell some-one why their $50 million film is not goingto be in a theater.”
In 2012, AMC pulled its plans for a 12-screen theater on Fourth Street. At least fiveother theater operators have shown interestin the site, where Parking Structure 3 islocated. Negotiations are delayed becausethe state is disputing City Hall’s control overthe property, which received RDA-fundedseismic retrogrades.
The “icing on the cake,” Wolf said, is thefact that the six-screen AMC Criterionclosed earlier this year.
A nine-screen theater, with stadium seat-ing, is proposed for the third level of SantaMonica Place mall. City officials hope this
theater will be the first of many.The final problem is affordability for
guests, he said.Plans for two proposed affordable hotels
on the corner of Fourth Street and ColoradoAvenue have been delayed several times. ThePlanning Commission recently recommend-ed that City Council squash the projectunless the developers agree to a series ofdemands.
“We find our participants are somewhatpriced out,” Wolf said. “It’s interesting. Weuse about half the hotel rooms in SantaMonica. And about half of our traveling par-ticipants don’t stay in Santa Monica. It’s notfor lack of capacity. It’s simply the price-points, even for the wealthy old businesstraveler, don’t always work.”
Wolf was clear that the city itself is idealfor the event, that it offers more than“almost any other place could on the WestCoast.”
But would he consider leaving? In 2011,AFM was courting downtown Los Angelesbefore deciding to stick with SantaMonica.
“I never want to even think about that orcomment on it,” he said. “We don’t want toleave but the challenges are growing.”
Santa Monica Convention & VisitorsBureau President and CEO Misty Kernsempathized with Wolf.
“We certainly can understand the AFMteam’s position and appreciate their patienceas our community addresses these impor-tant issues of new and renovated theatersand hotels,” she wrote in an e-mail. “We lookforward to the outcome of the newly formedCivic Working Group and working withAFM and city staff to bring movie premiersback to the Civic.”
Last month, council created a CivicAuditorium Working Group, which is tasked
with fundraising and renovating the Civic.The auditorium needs a new roof, a seismicretrofit, and a full modernization of the inte-rior.
With the RDA dissolution, City Hall lost$51 million in funding for the renovation.Experts have estimated that the total renova-tion could cost double that amount.
City officials are headed to Sacramentothis week to negotiate the future of proper-ties funded by the RDA, including ParkingStructure 3.
The plans for the Fifth Street hotels willgo before council in the near future.
More than 400 films, including 75 worldpremiers, will be screened over the next eightdays as part of AFM.
Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel is theepicenter of the film market, with all rooms
being rented out to serve as offices.Paul Leclerc, general manager of Loews,
called the event “massive” and highlighted itsimportance to the city as a whole.
The event is also a financial win forLoews, he said.
“It’s a funny time of the year, withHalloween leading up to the Thanksgivingholidays, it’s not a big group season for us,”he said. “When we did the math in terms ofthis show and how it affects the hotel, it waswithout question advantageous for us tocontinue to do the market at this time of theyear. That was the motivator for us to con-tinue to keep the partnership alive.”
For more information on AFM, visitamericanfilmmarket.com.
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it out.”Astrow, however, has made elaborate
plans for the restaurant’s future. If all goeshis way, Yankee Doodles will be replaced bya gastropub-styled restaurant called “On3rd.”
“Our intention is to remodel the entirespace,” he said. Starting with a patio enlarge-ment that would seat more than 100 cus-tomers, Astrow wants to rebrand the busi-ness as “a dining restaurant with sports.” Arenovated kitchen would accompany a com-pletely new menu, which would include awide selection of craft beers.
Concerning the ground floor space that
long served as a game room, Astrow antici-pates installing another bar and removing 95percent of the restaurant’s pool tables.
“The plan is to obtain a live entertain-ment permit and do live music downstairs,lease it out for parties,” he said.
Should his plans be approved by bothCity Hall and Tucker Investment Group, therestaurant could reopen as early as April2014. Yankee Doodles employees would bewelcomed back to help develop the new ven-ture.
“We talked about it recently, he’s givenme some ideas,” said Tucker, who assuredthat all plans are simply speculative. “We justhave to see what’s going to happen witheverything when it settles out.”
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PARAMUS, N.J. A 20-year-old gunmanintent on dying fired multiple shots insideNew Jersey’s largest shopping mall, trappinghundreds of customers and employees forhours as police scoured stores for the shoot-er, who was found dead early Tuesday of aself-inflicted wound, authorities said. Therewere no other injuries.
Investigators don’t believe the gunman,identified as 20-year-old Richard Shoop ofTeaneck, intended to shoot anyone when hebegan firing at the ceiling and elsewhere atthe Garden State Plaza on Monday nightshortly before the mall’s closing time, BergenCounty Prosecutor John Molinelli said.
“We think he went in with the intent thathe was not going to come out alive,”Molinelli said.
He said Shoop was known to authoritiesand had had a problem with drugs, but hedid not elaborate.
The prosecutor said Shoop left anambiguous note with his family. WhileMolinelli would not call it a suicide note, hesaid it did “express that an end is coming. Itcould have been prison. ... It could have beenwhat he did last night. It gave his family rea-son to reach out to us.”
The suspect’s brother, Kevin Shoop toldreporters outside their home on a quiet sub-urban block in Teaneck that he had noadvance warning about what Richardintended to do.
“He just sadly decided to make an act of— an act of, I guess, self-indulgence — bytaking his own life publicly,” Kevin Shoopsaid. “And it’s a tragedy to us all. And we’regoing to now handle matters and deal withthem.”
The shooting has left him devastated, hesaid, calling his brother a great person whowas liked by his friends and family.
Kevin Shoop said his brother used aweapon that did not belong to him.
“As far as anything goes into the drugs orany of the other rumors out there, no com-ment,” Kevin Shoop said.
Chaos erupted shortly before the mall’s9:30 p.m. closing time when authorities saida man dressed in black and wearing a motor-cycle helmet fired six shots. Molinelli said thegun, which was modified to look like an AK-47 assault rifle, belonged to Richard Shoop’sbrother, who owned it legally and did notgive the shooter permission to take it.
Shoop’s body was discovered around 3:20a.m. Tuesday in a back corridor of the mall,deep within a lower level, in an area that isnot accessible to the public, Paramus policeChief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. Shoop didnot work at the mall, he said, and investiga-tors were still trying to determine why hewent there.
Madison Barbarini, a close friend ofShoop’s since kindergarten, said he was pop-ular and “would never hurt a fly.”
Barbarini said Shoop told her last weekhe had found a new job.
“He told me that he was going to get anew job at this TV place and he was going to
make good money,” she said.At Victor’s Pizzeria & Italian Restaurant
in Teaneck, where Shoop worked for severalyears, owner Dod Geges said Shoop textedhim on Friday to say he was running late,then never showed.
Geges said in an email Tuesday that hecouldn’t imagine Shoop carrying a gun intoa mall. “He was always sad if he heard some-thing like that on TV,” Geges said.
Barbarini, who graduated from TeaneckHigh School in 2011 with Shoop, said he wasinvolved in theater and fencing, then attend-ed Bergen Community College.
She said he quit college to work full-timeat the pizzeria and recently purchased amotorcycle.
“He just wanted to be a successful busi-nessman. He wanted to succeed in life,” shesaid.
At the mall Monday night, witnesses saidthe sound of gunfire sent customers andemployees rushing hysterically for the exitsand hiding places at the mall, whichremained closed Tuesday.
Jessica Stigliano, 21, of Ridgefield, who’dbeen in the food court, said she had thought,“Not many people run for their life, butthat’s what I’m doing right now.”
Hundreds of law enforcement officersconverged on the 2.2 million-square-footmall, which was put on lockdown. NewJersey State Police landed a helicopter in theparking lot and SWAT teams with K-9 unitsinitially went through the mall and startedevacuating people.
Nick Woods was working in the Legostore when a woman ran by shouting thatthere was a shooting.
Woods said his supervisor locked them ina back room, along with a man and a childwho ran into the store. When they finallypeeked out two hours later, he said they sawpolice officers standing outside and Woodscalled 911 to ask that the officers be told theywere coming out.
He said the emergency operator told himshe couldn’t contact individual police offi-cers and that he should walk out with hishands in the air.
“I had to go out of the store shouting atthe officers with my hands up, and theyturned and pointed their guns at me,”Woods said. “It was one of the scariest expe-riences of my life.”
Joel Castaneda, 18, of Englewood, whowas working at the Ann Taylor Loft store,also spent time locked in a back room. Hesaid he heard several loud bangs andthought they were from construction at themall until he saw people running.
He said people rushed into his store andlocked themselves in a back room —employees and customers alike — wherethey pulled out cellphones to try to get newsor reach loved ones.
Early Tuesday, families were being escort-ed by police to a Chili’s restaurant on theoutskirts of the mall area to be reunited withothers who had been in the mall for hours.
The mall, which has more than 270stores, is located about 15 miles northwest ofManhattan.
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STANFORD, Calif. Oregon coach MarkHelfrich and Stanford’s David Shaw sharedsome laughs when they met for the first timethis offseason during an annual Pac-12Conference meeting.
Although they had never talked before,the similar circumstances that brought themtogether made them feel like they hadknown each other for years. Both had beenpromoted from offensive coordinator toreplace popular predecessors, Chip Kelly andJim Harbaugh, after each moved on to NFLjobs.
“You take over and everybody says,‘Who?’” Shaw said. “But at the same time,both of us are coaching lifers that don’t careabout what our name means or trying totake the limelight. It’s just about being smartfootball coaches and recruiting great playersand keeping great coaches and giving them achance to do what they do.”
Nobody is questioning either coach’s cre-dentials this week.
Helfrich has No. 2 Oregon (8-0, 5-0)undefeated heading into Thursday night’smatchup at sixth-ranked Stanford (7-1, 5-1)in what has once again shaped up as the Pac-12’s game of the year. All Shaw has done is go30-5 since taking over in 2011, leading theCardinal to a conference championship andthe program’s first Rose Bowl victory in 41years last season.
Both coaches are quick to credit the otherfor sticking with what worked already andnot making any major changes, even if itmeans not getting the same recognition astheir predecessors.
Shaw stayed with the power runninggame and physical defense that Harbaughbuilt before leaving for the San Francisco49ers after the 2010 season. And while Kellyis with the Philadelphia Eagles now,Oregon’s up-tempo offense and aggressiveapproach — faking punts, not punting onfourth down and going for two-point con-versions — are still staples in Helfrich’s firstseason.
“It was very similar in terms of whatthey’ve done and what we’ve done has beenreally good and how can we do it a little bitbetter,” Helfrich said. “Not, ‘How can I comeand change this so everyone thinks it’s myidea?’ As soon as you start doing that, youlose focus. The biggest thing in all of this iswhat your players believe in, what they canperform the best, how your program cancontinue to ascend because of what they do.
I think we have a very similar approach inthat way.”
Both coaches saw no reason to overhaultheir programs. They inherited champi-onship contenders led by Heisman Trophyfavorites — Marcus Mariota at Oregon, andAndrew Luck at Stanford — in their firstseason, which brought the added pressure ofkeeping pace on the national stage.
Some changes still had to be made.Shortly after Shaw opened his first springpractice, he noticed some defensive playerswere not quite as comfortable with him yet,a few maybe even unsure of his abilities.
Shaw, now 41, said that when an offensiveplayer made a mistake or took a “cheap shot”at a defensive player, he made sure to callthem out in front of the entire team “just toshow that I’m not the offensive coordinatorwho’s sitting in the coach’s office.”
“It was kind of a seamless transition,”Stanford linebacker A.J. Tarpley said. “Wedidn’t change much as a team. We kept a lotof the same coaches and all the players canall lean on each other.”
Helfrich, who turned 40 last week, hasn’tdealt with such challenges yet — though he’sin the honeymoon phase of his tenure,avoiding the kinds of questions and criti-cisms that come after losses.
But players praise Helfrich in similarfashion. He has carried on the culture thatKelly started, and that attitude no longerseems tied to just the head coach.
“It’s the Oregon way,” linebacker DerrickMalone said.
The most noticeable difference with thepast and present coaches is the way theycarry themselves.
While Harbaugh was constantly scream-ing at officials, waving his arms and pump-ing-up players by smacking their helmets,Shaw rarely shows emotion or screams onthe sideline. Helfrich also comes off as moreapproachable and personable than Kelly,who often publicly challenged players andgot defensive with reporters.
“I wouldn’t say that we’re both low key. Iwould say quietly competitive,” Shaw said. “Iwould say we both lean toward the cerebralapproach as opposed to the emotionalapproach. We both talk in the same tones.”
And although their teams form the mosttalked-about rivalry in the Pac-12 Northright now, don’t expect either coach toantagonize the other the way Harbaugh andKelly often did.
“As much as everybody would hate tohear it,” Shaw said, “we actually get alongreally well.”
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