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PASADENA NATIVE SALLY FIELD
FINDS HER TRUE VOICE IN THE
MEMOIR ‘IN PIECES’
BY BLISS BOWEN
NEWS
DANGER: ABOVE
AND BELOW
Fences go up on bridge as talks
end on playground
p. 7
LIFE
WORTH THE WAIT
The culinary payoff outweighs
any inconvenience at Din Tai Fung
p. 11
ARTS
EAST MEETS WEST
Stan Lai’s ‘Nightwalk in the
Chinese Garden’ premieres at the
Huntington
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09.20.18 | VOLUME 34 | NUMBER 38
opinion ....................................................................3
Letters ........................................................5 Editorial ......................................................6
news ........................................................................7
Danger: Above and Below
As fences go up, council votes not to renew
discussion on placement of restroom and
playground near base of Colorado Street Bridge.
—André Coleman
feature .....................................................................9
Dismantling Myths
Pasadena native Sally Field finds her true voice in the memoir “In Pieces.”
— Bliss Bowen
life ......................................................................... 11
Restaurant Review ...................................... 11
Home Sales ...............................................13
Bulletin ..................................................... 14
Advice ...................................................... 17
Arts ........................................................................ 21
Into the Night .............................................23
Trax ..........................................................24
Ready or Not
Wooten scheduled for final hearing before
embezzlement trial.
—André Coleman
Calendar....................................................26
Film ..........................................................28
classifieds ..............................................................29
8 days ....................................................................34
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WEB EXCLUSIVE
POP! Goes the Sale: Activists issue demands over Fuller Seminary property.
ABOUT THE COVER: Cover photo by John Russo
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VENTURA
SPONTANEOUS MIRACLE
From Aug. 28-30 I attended the Climate Reality Project
gathering at the LA Coliseum. Over 2,200 participants, including
those from 40 countries,
were represented. Vice
President Al Gore moderated
many notable world-class
speakers such as LA Eric
Mayor Garcetti, Disney chief
Alan Horn, a senior scientist
from Scripps and others.
Politically, what was so
profound was that on Tuesday,
while giving an amazing
presentation on the recent
climate tragedies of record
triple-digit intensities around
the globe (California, Boston,
Siberia), extreme wildfires,
droughts, economic impacts
and hardships, and most importantly
the science behind
global warming, Al paused
a moment to say, California
Senate Bill 100 wasn’t going
to make it because of only
four “no” votes.
The huge crowd groaned.
Al said he would tell us their
names later, but that he
needed to get on with this
critical information. After
he finished, he said, “OK, I’ll
tell you their names,” and
stated who the four Assembly
representatives were and
their districts. Instantly, like
a knee-jerk reflex, with no
further instructions, the majority
of over 2,000 people’s
heads bent down as if in
prayer, their fingers quickly
and silently sending messages
to their networks — all
while the presentation continued
on. But nothing more was
said about it as there was so
much vital information to be
given.
The next day, Al announced
that the four holdouts
had flipped and changed
their votes and now supported
SB 100, and the bill
was on the governor’s desk.
A huge cheer exploded. Their
prayers, or call them their
hopes, had been answered.
This experience, to me, was
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only fingers dancing on
their smart phones and all of
it taking just a few minutes
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cars in the largest market in
the United States, they have
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must be met for them to do
business. Now California
is officially on its way to
becoming the second state
committed to 100 percent renewable
energy sources. Hawaii
was the first. Hopefully,
many more states will follow.
Already many are planning
to do so.
To me it felt like the Arab
Spring event that spread like
wild fire in the Mideast, even
the Wall Street sit-in. It was a
spontaneous happening, and
in this case it yielded immediate
positive results for our
state, country and planet.
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•OPINION•
BY KEVIN UHRICH
NEVER TOO LATE
BROWN BELIEVES CLIMATE CHANGE CAN BE REVERSED
IN TIME, BUT WE MUST ACT NOW
Two separate but coincidentally occurring events could not have had more in
common..
On Friday, Sept. 14, slow-moving Hurricane Florence, the product of a
bathwater-warm Atlantic Ocean, started carving out swirling paths of destruction
along the coasts of North and South Carolina, methodically doing what hurricanes
do best — flooding homes and businesses, and knocking out power and other
infrastructure, then advancing inland and drenching much of both Southern states
with torrential rain. In the end, 37 people died, with an estimated $17 billion in
damage done.
Also that Friday, the Global Climate Action Summit in sunny and warm San
Francisco was in its second day, with Friday featuring speeches from such
high-level Democratic leaders as former Vice President Al Gore, who won the
Nobel Prize for his work on “An Inconvenient Truth,” a book and film about the
devastation caused and yet to be wrought by climate change, and former US Sen.
and Secretary of State John Kerry. It was Kerry who signed the Paris Climate
Accord a year before President Trump pulled the US out of the global pact.
But it was California Gov. Jerry Brown who people — and many of the nation’s
political and business leaders in attendance — came to see, hear and meet,
although Brown reportedly only spoke for a total of 75 seconds, according to a
report on the conference by the Los Angeles Times. But that was long enough
for a defiant Brown to declare California will launch its “own damn satellite” to
measure greenhouse gas emissions around the world in an effort to reverse global
warming.
Brown may not have spoken a long time to the crowd during the two-day
conference, but the governor had some 22 invitation-only meetings, including
conversations with officials from four states and 17 foreign countries, according to
the Times.
“He figures out where he thinks the world should go, then he tries to explain to
people why and bring them along,” former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a
Republican and co-chair of the summit along with Brown, told the newspaper.
Was what happened in the Carolinas last weekend the result of climate
change? Some say no. Other researchers, however, estimate the storm’s rainfall
forecast is 50 percent higher because of warmer oceans and more moisture in the
atmosphere brought by global warming, according to the website Inside Climate
News.
“Tropical cyclones are nothing new, of course. But climate scientists say that
global warming should make such storms wetter, slower and more intense —
which is exactly what seems to be happening. And if we fail to act, these kinds
of devastating weather events will likely become even more frequent and more
severe,” columnist Eugene Robinson wrote in the Washington Post on Monday.
“Some headlines have reported that Florence is a warning of what is to come.
But in reality, it is a warning of what has already arrived,” Michael Mann, a
professor of atmospheric science at Penn State, wrote in The Guardian last week.
“Far worse is to come if we don’t get serious, in a hurry, about acting on climate
change. We must transition away from fossil fuels toward renewable energy even
more rapidly, and we must elect politicians who will support such efforts,” Mann
concluded.
Here in California, Brown is intent on launching one or more satellites to
measure greenhouse gas emissions around the world, using private funds to pay
for the project, which is a few years off.
“We’re under attack by a lot of people, including Donald Trump, but the climate
threat still keeps growing,” the Times reported Brown saying at the conference.
Trump pulled out of the Paris agreement in July 2017 because he said it was unfair
to the United States and would hurt the economy, The Associated Press reported.
“So we want to know what the hell’s going on, all over the world, all the time.
So we’re going to launch our own satellite, our own damn satellite, to figure out
where the pollution is and how we are going to end it,” Brown said, according to
the Times.
If we can take away any hope from this storm and others yet to come it is
the knowledge that Gov. Brown will not fail to act when duty calls, much as the
federal government has chosen to do. But, with Brown turning 80 last April, and
leaving office at the end of this year, what we really need now is other leaders who
will at least try to emulate that fighting spirit during all the hot and rainy days
ahead. ■
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• NEWS •
PASADENA | ALHAMBRA | ALTADENA | ARCADIA | EAGLE ROCK | GLENDALE | LA CAÑADA | MONTROSE | SAN MARINO | SIERRA MADRE | SOUTH PASADENA
READY OR NOT
WOOTEN SCHEDULED FOR FINAL HEARING
BEFORE TRIAL
BUSINESS AS USUAL
PASADENA CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE REJECTS SALES
TAX HIKE
MORE TO COME
300,000 ISIS MEMBERS SET TO
REBUILD TERRORIST GROUP
P. 8
P. 8
P. 8
WEB EXCLUSIVE
DANGER: ABOVE
AND BELOW
AS FENCES GO UP, COUNCIL VOTES TO NOT RENEW DISCUSSION OVER PLACEMENT OF
RESTROOM AND PLAYGROUND NEAR BASE OF COLORADO STREET BRIDGE
During a radio interview that aired Monday morning, Pasadena
Mayor Terry Tornek said federal landmark status
protections bestowed upon the Colorado Street Bridge are
slowing city efforts to prevent people from jumping from there to
their deaths.
This year alone, four people have killed themselves by
jumping from what has long been known as “Suicide Bridge.”
As an emergency measure, City Manager Steve Mermell has
ordered that 10-foot high chain link fencing be installed along
BY ANDRÉ COLEMAN
both sides of the 105-year-old structure.
“We put up some temporary fencing which was ineffective.
The city manager has now decided to fence the entire bridge in
an effort to mitigate this while at the same time we’re working on
a longer term solution,” Tornek told A. Martinez of “Take Two,” a
morning show on KPCC, 89.3 FM.
“The reason it’s taking so long is that this bridge is on the
National Register of Historic Places, so you don’t get to just
throw up a solution. [It] needs to be one that’s aesthetically
POP! GOES THE SALE
ACTIVISTS ISSUE DEMANDS
OVER FULLER SEMINARY
PROPERTY
A citizen’s group is threatening legal action
and “fierce community opposition” if its
demands regarding the sale of the Fuller
Theological Seminary property in midtown
Pasadena are not met.
Pasadenans Organizing for Progress!
(POP!), which wants the property used to
help the city meet its affordable housing
goals, is also calling on Fuller to stop all
negotiations for the property that may
be under way “so that the City, Fuller
and POP! can meet to discuss a community
benefits package that will benefit
all parties,” states a letter from the group
to Pasadena Mayor Terry Tornek, City
Manager Steve Mermell, Fuller President
Dr. Mark Labberton and members of the
school’s board of trustees.
In May, Fuller officials announced plans
to sell its 70-year-old Pasadena campus
and move to a new location in Pomona by
2021. The 13-acre property includes 267
multifamily residential units and 300,000
square feet of office, administrative and
classroom space, as well as a separate
library building and considerable open
space.
In the letter, POP! leaders state: “If Fuller
is unwilling to act in a socially responsible
way, then it is the city government’s
responsibility to adopt rules and laws that
serve the needs of Pasadena residents,
and that includes making sure that the
Fuller campus — one of the last large
development sites in the city — is utilized
to promote the public interest rather than
allow Fuller, a nonprofit, tax-exempt educational
institution, to profit from the sale
of its campus to the highest bidder and
for the buyers to turn the campus into an
enclave of luxury housing out of reach for
most Pasadena residents.”
The letter is signed by POP! Co-chairs
Skip Hickambottom, an activist and local
attorney, labor leader Pablo Alvarado
and Kimberly Douglas, a former Caltech
librarian. The nonprofit organization has
150 members, said POP! spokesperson Ed
Washatka.
POP!’s letter also calls for a community
benefits agreement to be signed by the
city, POP! and any developer seeking to
purchase and development on the campus.
A price has not been set for the property.
City officials have said they are not
interested in purchasing the campus, but
they do want to sit in on discussions with
prospective buyers.
WEEKLY WEATHER
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BRIEFS
READY OR NOT
WOOTEN SCHEDULED FOR
FINAL HEARING BEFORE
EMBEZZLEMENT TRIAL
BY ANDRÉ COLEMAN
The trial of Danny Wooten, a former City Hall employee
Danny Wooten
accused of embezzling more than $6 million from the city’s
Underground Utility Fund, is expected to begin on Oct. 9.
Wooten was arrested on Dec. 30, 2014 along with Tyrone Collins and Melody Jenkins
on 60 charges of embezzlement, conflict of interest and grand theft. If convicted,
Wooten faces 28 years in prison. Collins faces 18 years behind bars. Charges against
Jenkins were dropped due to insufficient evidence.
According to an audit of the city’s Underground Utilities Program, Wooten would
submit invoices for small amounts to administrators with the Public Works Department
for approval, but city employees did not maintain the proper chain of custody after
signing the invoices.
Instead of taking custody of the invoices, they allowed Wooten to keep them. With
the required signatures already in place, Wooten would then allegedly add new pages to
the invoices, claim different work had been performed, and place extra digits in front of
the first number, increasing the dollar amounts on invoices.
Wooten was scheduled for a readiness hearing on Wednesday, Sept. 19, according
to the LA County District Attorney’s Office. The hearing serves as a last-ditch effort to
resolve the case without a trial.
Wooten allegedly gave $2 million to Collins, owner of Collins Electric in Altadena.
Jenkins, a former temporary employee with the city, allegedly received $40,000. Wooten
also donated additional $2 million to a church in Pomona where he served as senior
pastor, according to prosecutors.
The scandal shocked local residents and officials who were preparing for Tournament
of Roses festivities when Wooten, Collins and Jenkins were arrested.
City Manager Michael Beck fired Finance Director Andrew Green and Public Works
Director Siobahn Foster in the wake of the scandal. However, many local residents
blamed Beck and called for his removal. Beck left the city for a job at UCLA in 2016.
Four unnamed city workers were also placed on suspension in relation to the
embezzlement scandal.
About $5.8 million has been recovered through an insurance settlement. n
BUSINESS AS USUAL
PASADENA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
REJECTS SALES TAX HIKE
BY ANDRÉ COLEMAN
According to the results of a poll, Chamber of Commerce
members overwhelmingly oppose a proposed city sales tax
increase on the November ballot.
All told, 77.91 percent of respondents oppose the threequarter
cent sales tax increase, while just 22.09 percent are in favor of it.
Paul Little
The poll, which included the ballot language, was sent to all Pasadena Chamber of
Commerce members, who were asked if they supported or opposed it.
The tax measure would generate about $21 million a year. According to Mayor
Terry Tornek, $7 million of those funds would be used to help the financially strapped
Pasadena Unified School District which is in danger of being taken over the Los
Angeles County Office of Education.
Chamber members also strongly opposed using money from the tax increase to
help the Pasadena Unified School District.
According to the results of the poll, 62.8 percent of the members were against
allocating the money to the district, while 36.2 percent of respondents favored the idea.
At a recent meeting, the chamber’s board of directors voted to oppose the measure
after hearing presentations from Mayor Terry Tornek and Pasadena Unified School
District Superintendent Brian McDonald.
“We put the ballot language in front of our members and asked simply if they
support the increase,” said Pasadena Chamber CEO Paul Little. “We had one of the
highest responses we have ever had to a poll and resoundingly our members do
not support it and are looking to the Pasadena Chamber to take a leadership role in
opposing the initiative.”
The poll also allowed members to comment on their answers.
Members who opposed the measure fell into three categories:
Those who feel the city should be more responsible in its spending and budgeting,
those who felt the city has not been open and transparent about its spending and
budgeting, and those who felt Pasadena businesses will be less competitive than those
in neighboring communities.
But that may not be the case, as nearby communities have also placed tax
initiatives on the ballot.
In August, the Glendale City Council voted to put a proposed three-quarter percent
sales tax increase on the Nov. 6 ballot, which would increase the city’s sales tax from
9.5 percent to 10.25 percent, the same as Pasadena’s. Burbank, which currently has no
sales tax, has also put a sales tax of 0.75 percent on the November ballot.
Members who supported the increase felt that the city should act before another
sales tax increase is enacted by the state or county and those who felt the city has
made meaningful efforts to cut its budget.
“The chamber board represents a constituency that clearly and strongly opposes
this measure,” said Little. n
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compatible with the iconic nature of
the structure, and so it’s going to take
a long time,” Tornek said. “That’s why
the city manager decided to intervene
and on an interim basis fence the
entire bridge, which we think will
mitigate the suicide problem.”
On Monday, the City Council
declined to renew discussions
to reconsider placing a restroom
and a tot lot play area in Desiderio
Neighborhood Park, located next
to a nine-unit Habitat for Humanity housing
development located a sfort distance from the base
of the bridge, Owners of the newly built homes fear
that a jumper could possibly hit and injure someone
living below.
“How can you not solve the suicide problem
on the bridge before you invite children to live
underneath it?” Pasadena resident Bill Knopf
asked at the council’s Aug. 27 meeting for which
local residents turned out in force to oppose the
new Desiderio park. Knopf and others previously
opposed construction of the homes, south of the
park property.
After Knopf and other residents voiced their
concerns, Councilman Steve Madison, whose
district includes Desderio, the bridge, the Arroyo
Seco and surrounding neighborhoods, asked
Mermell to place further discussion of the restroom
and playground proposal on a future agenda.
From 2007 to 2016 there was an average of
three suicides per year occurring from the bridge.
Last year the bridge saw nine suicides, prompting
city officials to place temporary 10-foot tall, oneinch
thick mesh fencing blocking access to 20
alcoves on both sides of the 1,500-foot-long bridge.
The idea is to prevent people from using the
alcoves to climb over the existing spiked fencing
and onto the ledge.
The latest dead jumper was discovered beneath
the bridge on Aug. 28, the morning after the
council’s regular Monday meeting.
According to documents obtained by the
Pasadena Weekly, from Jan. 1 to Sept. 4 Pasadena
police responded to 79 calls for service at the bridge
and in the area below. Forty-eight of those calls
were for welfare checks, 22 of the calls regarded
people with mental health issues, two were people
connected to people who had killed themselves,
and seven calls were regarding suspicious persons.
The housing project and park occupies the
former Desiderio Army Reserve Center, declared
surplus by the army and recommended for closure
in 2005. After public hearings, city officials decided
to convert portions of the property into affordable
housing and a neighborhood park.
The West Pasadena Residents Association
THE COUNT
As of Monday, 3,001 days after the war in Afghanistan ended …
2,214
American military
service members
(0 more
than last week)
were reported
killed in Afghanistan
since
the war began in
2001, according to
The Associated Press.
10
airstrikes were carried
out in Syria on
Tuesday to defeat
the last remnant
of ISIS in Syria.
According to
CNN, more than
1,000 extremists
remain.
Mayor Terry Tornek
(WPRA) called on the City Council
to end all work on the park until the
city can implement recommendations
made by the Colorado Street Bridge
Task force in April.
According to a report by the task
force, barriers measuring at least
seven feet tall could effectively deter
suicide attempts. Barriers will also be
installed at both ends of the bridge to
prevent access to the outside ledge.
“The potential emotional and
possibly physical harm to nearby residents and
users of the park space, especially children, is
a real concern, and we would think it should be
a priority to resolve the Colorado Street Bridge
suicide situation before moving ahead with the
Desiderio Park construction,” wrote Dan Beal,
president of the WPRA in correspondence to the
Pasadena City Council.
Tornek said it was unlikely there would be a
work stoppage at the park.
“We’ve had, since the federal government
declared this property surplus back in 2005, any
number of meetings. It’s gone through at least four
city commissions. We’ve had meetings with the
neighbors and the stakeholders. The design has
evolved over that time, the active design process,
and this has been going on since, I think, 2013. So,
we’ve gone through a very public process and are
now actually under construction. People are asking
us to stop and reconsider and redesign the project
and I don’t think that’s likely to happen,” Tornek
told Martinez. Between 2013 and 2017, the project
was approved by the city’s Parks and Recreation,
Design Review, Historic Preservation and Traffic
commissions.
“We need to solve the suicide problem quite
independently of the park,” said the mayor.
Earlier this month local police officers and
firefighters spent 13 hours successfully talking a
woman off the ledge of the bridge.
The next day, Mermell proclaimed an emergency
and authorized the city to spend $285,000 to erect
expand existing temporary fencing on the bridge to
span the entire structure. Poles have already been
erected to complete the job.
The bridge was featured in the 1921 Charlie
Chaplin film “The Kid” in which Chaplin’s famous
character, the Tramp, saves a young woman from
jumping the 150 feet from the ledge to the ground.
Soon after the film, people began jumping off
the bridge in droves. During the Great Depression,
which lasted from the stock market crash of
October 1929 to 1939, 79 people jumped off the
bridge. During that time, people began calling it
“Suicide Bridge,” and that moniker has stuck to this
day, according to a staff report. n
98
percent of the
regions in Syria
and Iraq once
ruled by ISIS
have been
reclaimed by
a military coalition,
including
the US and other
nations, CNN reported.
300,000
members of ISIS remain in
that region. CNN cited
an unnamed Pentagon
source who said
the terrorist group is
“well positioned” to
rebuild.
— Compiled by
André Coleman
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DISMANTLING
MYTHS
PASADENA NATIVE SALLY FIELD FINDS HER
PASADENA NATIVE SALLY FIELD FINDS HER
TRUE VOICE IN THE MEMOIR ‘IN PIECES’
BY BLISS BOWEN
Despite the egalitarian creeds enshrined in our Constitution,
we are a nation that cherishes our myths and
even royalty — as long as we get to choose said royals,
usually in the form of champion athletes and “America’s
sweetheart” actresses. Sally Field has long counted as
one of the latter, initially as the bubbly “Gidget” of 1960s
TV sitcoms and then as a widely beloved dramatic actress,
with two Oscars and three Emmy Awards testifying
to the respect she has earned for her fierce talent.
But as she details in her sensitively written memoir,
“In Pieces,” more complicated truths co-existed with
the myths perpetuated by her celebrity status. What she
reveals in its pages is not that she wasn’t who the public
assumed she was, but that the reality she lived was far
more complex than her pert, smiling image. That duality
will likely feel familiar to many women reading Field’s
story, in or out of Hollywood. (“#MeToo,” indeed.) Field,
who will be discussing the book with LA Times columnist
Patt Morrison next Thursday, Sept. 27, at Pasadena
Presbyterian Church, comes across as an emotionally
eloquent yet somewhat reluctant memoirist. But with
“In Pieces” she once again upends industry and audience
preconceptions, not only by writing it herself but
also by taking back her own myth — similar to how she
reclaimed her public persona after “The Flying Nun” via
her nuanced portrait of a woman with multiple personalities
in the landmark miniseries “Sybil,” and later
transformed her career with her angry portrayal of labor
activist “Norma Rae.”
The first misconception to get exploded is that of a
vapid innocence Field had little chance to possess. She
recounts a pre-“Gidget” abortion furtively obtained in
Tijuana — the result of a youthful fling while temporarily
separated from the kind childhood sweetheart who
eventually became her directionless first husband. That
procedure was arranged by stepfather Jock Mahoney,
a macho stuntman and actor whose mercurial charisma
she compares to the Pied Piper’s. Mahoney was
understanding then, but his sexual abuse of Field until
she turned 14 established self-defeating psychological
and relationship reflexes she spent decades trying to
overcome.
That included her five-year romance with “Smokey
and the Bandit” co-star Burt Reynolds — another myth
Field gently but firmly dismantles. A “dream figure”
to the world, inside, Field writes, Reynolds was “just
a good-looking, ordinary person, frantically trying to
fulfill everyone’s expectations and always waiting for
the Big Burts of the world to smack the daylights out of
him if he failed. He tried to hide everything about himself
that he saw as being imperfect … We were a perfect
match of flaws.” Her caring but clear-eyed view of their
“instantaneous and intense” connection is not the stuff
of worshipful Hollywood lore: “Blindly I fell into a rut
that had long ago formed in my road, a preprogrammed
behavior as if in some past life I had pledged a soulbinding
commitment to this man.” From the beginning,
he wanted Field “to be who he thought I was, and not
who I truly was. Immediately, I started clamping down
on myself.”
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Again, those revelations, which have grabbed
headlines in the wake of Reynolds’ recent death, will
resonate with women who have coped with similarly paternalistic
partners. Field’s book is essentially her declaration
of refusal to continue “clamping down,” and to
finally speak up. She mostly expresses sad regret rather
than bitterness about past relationships. (The notable
exception is Mahoney, whose abuse seeded a volcanic
rage she later tapped into while acting.) After describing
what amounts to date rape by “MacArthur Park” songwriter
Jimmy Webb, she chalks it up to the hash they
were smoking and a consequence of her own choices,
not deviousness on his part. She’s less forgiving of “Stay
Hungry” director Bob Rafaelson, who demands she bare
her breasts and kiss him before hiring her — requests
she grants, she writes, at the expense of the very dignity
she was fighting for. (Rafaelson has disputed her account.)
Later, in the spirit of her sensual character, she
acquiesces to letting the older man “into my room and
my body.” Now 71, she writes that she could “bash him
over the head” but that she was not “anyone’s victim”:
“I was a twenty-eight-year-old grown-up, and in
’75 it seemed like acceptable behavior on his part.
We’re all locked into the drumbeat of our history,
but eventually you have to drown out that tune with
your own voice. I couldn’t hear my voice.”
That striking theme of not being able to hear her own
voice recurs throughout Mahoney’s abuse, and later
while navigating oppressive relationships with lovers
and producers. Acting is salvation because then, finally,
she can hear her own voice. Actors Studio guru Lee
Strasberg and “Norma Rae” director Martin Ritt in particular
appear like earthbound angels as they stubbornly
encourage her to protect that inner guide.
Some passages involving Reynolds feel patchy in
comparison to more gracefully unfolded explorations of
Burt Reynolds and Sally Field in Smokey The Bandit
“I was a twenty-eight-yearold
grown-up, and in ’75
it seemed like acceptable
behavior on his part.
We’re all locked into the
drumbeat of our history,
but eventually you have to
drown out that tune with
your own voice. I couldn’t
hear my voice.”
— Sally Field
family, but then the book’s narrative backbone is Field’s
close yet frustrating relationship with her Jennifer
Jones-lookalike mother, Margaret, whom Field called
“Baa.” The meaning of “In Pieces” gradually emerges as
Field traces inherent contradictions within herself — an
enduring restlessness versus a desire for a stable home
life, a self-protective drive for solitude versus a yearning
to connect — in a drive to understand why the two
women could not directly address Baa’s alcoholism,
Field’s breadwinner status or her stepfather’s abuse
until shortly before Baa’s death in 2011.
Born at Huntington Memorial Hospital, Field spent
her earliest years in her parents’ Pasadena home alongside
her older brother, Richard (who grew up to become
a successful physicist, working alongside Richard
Feynman at Caltech). Her warmest memories revolve
around her grandmother Joy’s two-bedroom bungalow
in Altadena and the empowering circle of women rooted
there. Field’s depictions of the foothill region in the post-
World War II years are as lovely as her recollections of
thrifty relatives are revealing:
“When I look for that house in my mind, I have a
blurry vision of my great-aunt Gladys standing in
the dining room cutting flat rubber padding into tiny
circles to paste onto her sore feet. … There’s a rocking
chair beside the mesh-curtained fireplace where my
seventy-six-year-old great-grandmother sits under
a halo of white hair, her hands dancing around two
thin knitting needles with a steady stream of twinelike
yarn flowing from the paisley bag resting on the
floor. I remember that chair, how it chirped like a
cricket when my great-grandmother would rock me,
quietly patting my back the whole time. … It was a
kind of no-man’s-land. A world filled with women
who would straighten up if a man walked in, who
would set aside the triviality of their own work and
quickly move everything out of the way. But the men,
whoever they were, never stayed long, and when
the door slammed behind them, the house seemed to
breathe a sigh of relief.”
As Field recalls her undemonstrative yet caring
elders, it’s hard not to notice similarities to dominant
female characters in her 1989 film “Steel Magnolias.”
Other than an admiring caption beneath a cast photo —
“The stupendous women” — the book makes no mention
of that film, which seems an odd omission given how
their onscreen bond echoes the dynamic in the most formative
relationships in Field’s life. Many viewers related
to the rage unbottled by her character in that film. Many
readers of “In Pieces” will likely be grateful Field found
her voice to tell her own myth-busting story, in her own
words. ■
Vroman’s Bookstore presents Sally Field discussing “In Pieces” with
Patt Morrison at Pasadena Presbyterian Church, 585 E. Colorado Blvd.,
Pasadena, 7-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27; $40. All tickets include one
seat and one book copy. Info: (626) 449-5320. Vromansbookstore.com
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HOME SALES
RECENT HOME SALES
IN THE GREATER PASADENA AREA
“YOU DON'T NEED A SILVER FORK TO EAT GOOD FOOD."- PAUL PRUDHOMME
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Din Tai Fung
177 Caruso Ave., Glendale
(818) 551-5561
Westfield Santa Anita
400 S. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia
(626) 446-8588
1108 S. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia
(626) 574-7068
dintaifungusa.com
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Worth the Wait
THE CULINARY PAYOFF AT DIN TAI FUNG OUTWEIGHS ANY INCONVENIENCE
BY EVELYN GARCIA | PHOTOS BY DANNY LIAO
Lately it seems Asian restaurants are taking on a form of
fusion or serve dishes which are less than authentic. One
of the first restaurants to bring truly authentic Chinese
cuisine into the mainstream across the United States — and
now all over the world — was Din Tai Fung, which continues
to grow and bask in well-deserved praise.
If you’ve tried their soup dumplings, which are definitely
worth the potential two-hour wait, you need not read any
further. If not, you need this in your life. There is no in
between. The location at the Americana at Brand in Glendale
is nearing its five-year anniversary, and now is as good as any
to revisit the popular dumpling house.
Din Tai Fung opened its first restaurant in Taiwan in 1972,
attracting so much attention and gaining such popularity
that it now has locations in Japan, South Korea, Singapore,
China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia and Thailand. At The
Americana, it is situated off of Caruso Avenue, conveniently
located next to Nordstrom’s. If you haven’t been there, the
first thing you must do is make your way to the hostess who
takes names and cell phone numbers, since it can take a few
hours to be seated. In the waiting area, patrons browse the
menu (and social media, because, hello, you’re so close to the
deliciousness) and begin marking which items they’d like to
order as soon as they are assigned a coveted table beyond the
glass encasement.
Din Tai Fung is perhaps best known for its soup dumplings,
or xiao long bao, which are both extremely difficult to make well
and sometimes equally challenging to eat correctly. Fortunately
for first-timers, the friendly staff is quick to explain how one
should consume the plump beauties: Three parts vinegar, one
part soy sauce, break the skin, top with ginger, then enjoy. What
makes xiao long bao at Din Tai Fung so unique is that it’s made
by hand. The thin skin doesn’t break upon picking it up, and it
holds in the delicious soup like a blanket swaddling a newborn
— both precious cargo. Each dumpling is made with precisely 18
folds, the magic ratio found through continuous testing, and the
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Average price per entree
$ up to $10
$$ $11–15
$$$ $16-25
$$$$ $25+
ALEXANDER’S STEAKHOUSE
111 North Los Robles Ave. Pasadena,
(626) 486-1111 alexanderssteakhouse.com $$$$
Alexander’s Steakhouse welcomes you to experience
American steakhouse cuisine with an innovative and
elegant global inspiration. Our menu features Certified
Angus Beef from the Mid-West, corn-fed and dry-aged
for 28 days for unparalleled flavor. We serve the finest
and most luxurious ingredients available including
authentic Japanese wagyu beef.
BONNIE B’S SMOKIN BBQ
1280 N. Lake Ave., Pasadena,
(626) 794-0132 bonniebssmokin.com $$
From Tulsa Oklahoma to Southern Cal. with a touch
of New Orleans soul comes Bonnie B’s Bar B Que
Heaven. Our 45-year-old traditional recipes are made
with love. Try our new sweet pea’s double Fried
burger made with our own sauces, soul bowl and
homemade peach cobbler. Voted best BBQ & Soul
food in Pasadena for our ribs, collard greens and
Slim's Mac & Cheese. We are thankful and appreciate
Pasadena.
CAMERON’S SEAFOOD
1978 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena
(626) 793-3474 Camerons4fish.com $$
Since 1984, Cameron’s Seafood has been serving its freshest
seafood, and has become a landmark in Pasadena. Cameron’s
brings the ocean home with their fresh catch being cooked
over mesquite wood grills that burn all day long.Enjoy the very
best Seafood, Steaks, Salad & Pasta! Voted Best Seafood in
Pasadena Weekly for 27 years! Now you can order on-line:
camerons4fish.com.
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Average price per entree
$ up to $10
$$ $11–15
$$$ $16-25
$$$$ $25+
TOM'S FAMOUS FAMILY
RESTAURANT
1130 E. Walnut St. Pasadena
626-577-7717 tomsfamous.com $
Please come and enjoy homemade
breakfast lunch and dinner all made from
scratch and FRESH. Nothing is ever served
or made from a can. We pride ourselves as
being the cleanest store with the best quality
food and BEST service in town. Thank
you PASADENA!!!!!
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HIKARI SUSHI
2064 Verdugo Blvd. Montrose
818-957-1800 Hikarisushiglendale.com $$
Hikari Sushi in Montrose is open for business
to serve you fresh sushi, with a variety of
rolls. We are the first All You Can Eat Sushi
Restaurant in the City of Glendale. Please join
us! We are looking forward to serving you!
KABUKI JAPANESE RESTAURANTS
88 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena,
(626) 568-9310
3539 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena,
(626) 351-8963
kabukirestaurants.com $$
When you walk into a Kabuki you won’t be
overwhelmed with Asian decor and music.
What you will encounter is a casual atmosphere
with today’s hottest music playing,
people smiling and our friendly staff welcoming
you through the doors. Look for the Red
Mask. Come eat, drink and have fun!
MARGARITA’S
155 S. Rosemead Blvd., Pasadena
(626) 449-4193 margaritaspasadena.com $$
At Margaritas Mexican Restaurant, our family
has been sharing our authentic Mexican
dishes with the wonderful people of Pasadena
since 1977. Guests enter our warm, inviting
space and leave as family -- with plenty of
burritos, tortas, tostadas, fajitas, and more
to be had in between! Our dishes incorporate
and pay homage to the rich flavors of bustling
mercados, corner taquerias, and seaside palapas.
So visit us, eat to your heart's content
at our mouthwatering lunch buffet, sip on a
refreshing margarita, and feel at home.
TOPS WALNUT
1792 E. Walnut St., Pasadena
(626) 584-0244
topsburger.com $
At TOPS on Walnut & Allen, we maintain the
original taste from 60 years ago. My father
wanted to create food as close to homemade
as possible. Our primary goal and focus is
on taste, quality, freshness, cleanliness in
our service and experienced staff. Most of
our staff have been with us for more than
twenty years. We invite you to come to TOPS
on the corner of Walnut & Allen and taste the
difference! Meet our staff and experience
what quality service should be. The same
quality service that has made us #1.
WE OLIVE
32 E Colorado Blvd
Pasadena, CA 91105
626-787-1000
weolive.com/Pasadena $$
We Olive Pasadena features an array of olive
oils, vinaigrettes, dips, and other one of a
kind flavors and offers complimentary Olive
Oil tastings.
We now serve lunch & dinner! Enjoy the
summer evenings on our We Olive Patio!
Happy Hour M – F 3:30 – 7pm! Enjoy cheese
and charcuterie and California small patch
wine. Shopping for a gift? Check out our
wide selection of customized gourmet gifts.
Located in Old Pasadena right next to free 90
minute parking.
ZELO GOURMET PIZZAS
328 E. Foothill Blvd.Arcadia
626-358-8298
myzelopizza.info $$
It’s the cornmeal crust that makes this pizzeria
stand out from the rest. This locally owned
establishment’s signature dish is the fresh,
corn, balsamic-marinated, oven-roasted red
onion pie. Zelo Pizzeria has expanded the
dining room to better serve you, so come in
and give Zelo Pizzeria a try.
VERTICAL WINE BISTRO
70 N. Raymond Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91103
(626) 795-3999
verticalwinebistro.com $$
Set above the streets of Old Town Pasadena,
Vertical Wine Bistro offers a warm, inviting
dining experience with an elegant and
comfortable atmosphere. Our Chefs use only
the freshest ingredients when designing our
menu. We offer a wide selection of beer, wine
and hand crafted cocktails. Tuesday - Sunday:
5:00pm til Close - Happy Hour (Tues-
Fri): 5:00pm - 7:00pm – Closed Monday
WORTH THE WAIT
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method is rumored to take months or even years to
perfect.
My dining partner and I were seated within 45
minutes and quickly decided what to order on our
first round: Crab and pork xiao long bao ($14),
chicken wontons with spicy sauce ($10.50) and
noodles with spicy sauce ($9). Having tried the
sauce before, we knew it was a must-have. It pairs
perfectly with any wonton and has a kick that
doesn’t overpower any of the other flavors. The
chicken wontons, which were labeled “new,” were
not your typical bland chicken menu option. They
were juicy and, although less flavorful than the
pork, worthwhile.
The crab and pork were packed with flavor using
the proper soy sauce and vinegar ratio, as well as on
their own. Servers walked briskly around the dining
area with towering stacks of bamboo baskets in
which the dumplings are steamed, and anticipation
quickly built in the few seconds as we wondered
whether the delicate treats they carried were headed
for us or a fellow patron.
Before we ordered anything else I decided to
try their yuzu margarita ($13) made with honey, a
unique take on a classic drink. Yuzu has a tarter
taste than a traditional margarita, yet when mixed
with sweet honey creates a perfect balance. They
also serve a variety of green and black teas,
including honey, mango, lychee and passion fruit
($4.25). Lemonade and smoothies are also on the
menu in similar flavors for $5.
Of their vegetarian options, we settled on
a simple vegetarian dumpling. It comes in a
green skin, as if to remind you there is no meat
inside, but is great whether or not you abide by
a vegetarian diet. Is it worth ordering for true
carnivores? Probably not, but it’s good to know
a flavorful vegetarian wonton is out there that
consists of more than cabbage and carrots.
The staff at each location I have visited is
always energetic and happy to help guide you
through the menu. It was because of them that I
felt compelled to try their chocolate mochi xiao
long bao ($8) for the first time, and my life has not
been the same since. Dumplings are amazing to
begin with because of the delicious, doughy skin,
and, if pork or crab weren't enough, one bite of
these and the burst of chocolate that melts in your
mouth definitely will be. It may have become one
of my favorite desserts. The order comes with five
dumplings, which can be shared but reasonably
acceptable to eat on your own, if you ask me.
Other must-try items include the braised beef
noodle soup ($9.75), shrimp and pork shao mai
($7), chicken fried rice with a choice of white
rice ($9.50) or brown ($10.50), and shrimp fried
noodles ($12). While we saved ourselves for the
dumplings, the cucumber salad ($5.25) was both
spicy and vegetarian friendly, and the sautéed
string beans with garlic ($10.25) were a great
starting point for those of us in it for the long haul.
If you haven’t yet braved the long wait for a
table, just know that the culinary payoff at Din Tai
Fung will make it well worth any inconvenience.
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HOME SALES
RECENT HOME CLOSINGS IN THE PASADENA WEEKLY FOOTPRINT
source: CalREsource
ADDRESS PRICE BDRMS.SQ. FT.YR. BUILTPREV. PRICE PREV. SOLD
ALHAMBRA
2101 South Palm Avenue 08/30/18 $785,000 3 1905 1967 $647,500 05/01/2018
2405 Siwanoy Drive 08/30/18 $772,000 3 1501 1950 $565,000 02/06/2018
2409 Siwanoy Drive 08/31/18 $719,000 3 1708 1950
1820 South 6th Street 08/29/18 $660,000 3 1351 1924 $100,000 04/27/1981
1636 South Raymond Avenue 08/27/18 $650,000 2 1005 1928 $540,000 11/17/2005
3017 West Commonwealth Ave. 08/31/18 $640,000 3 1130 1924
511 North 3rd Street #A 08/28/18 $625,000 3 1404 1992 $443,000 10/02/2014
503 North 3rd Street #D 08/31/18 $602,000 3 1404 1992 $280,000 12/23/2002
310 West Woodward Avenue #B 08/29/18 $548,000 3 1191 1987 $168,000 03/20/1991
1707 Pepper Street #C 08/31/18 $530,000 3 1234 1991 $456,000 08/23/2006
ALTADENA
816 West Gabrielino Court 08/31/18 $1,500,000 5 3886 1997 $1,350,000 01/05/2015
2259 Glen Canyon Road 08/27/18 $1,285,000 3 2108 1946 $1,015,000 01/21/2016
3649 Monterosa Drive 08/27/18 $1,090,000 4 2095 1958 $920,000 11/22/2017
787 East Woodbury Road 08/27/18 $1,055,000 3 1754 1929 $535,000 11/27/2012
3433 Monterosa Drive 08/30/18 $1,040,000 3 2143 1964 $790,000 05/20/2014
579 East Poppyfi elds Drive 08/31/18 $895,000 3 1682 1938 $632,500 02/15/2012
3335 Florecita Drive 08/30/18 $819,000 2 1530 1953 $128,000 03/26/1986
3069 La Corona Avenue 08/30/18 $765,000 4 1184 1924 $535,000 02/12/2015
787 Florecita Lane 08/30/18 $699,000 3 1194 1951
715 Devirian Place 08/29/18 $627,000 3 2698 1945
ARCADIA
230 Hacienda Drive 08/30/18 $3,000,000 4 3391 1940 $2,175,000 11/07/2005
127 East Camino Real Avenue 08/30/18 $2,350,000 4 3790 1989 $1,689,000 08/23/2013
2311 South 3rd Avenue 08/31/18 $1,500,000 3 2553 1948 $1,240,000 06/07/2007
1630 North Santa Anita Avenue 08/30/18 $1,070,000 3 2448 1950
618 Encino Court 08/28/18 $1,025,000 3 1580 1961
1113 East Camino Real Avenue 08/30/18 $880,000 3 1081 1947 $680,000 11/03/2017
2908 Sycamore Lane 08/27/18 $778,000 3 1908 2002
613 South 3rd Avenue #B 08/29/18 $720,000 3 1475 1983 $526,000 10/05/2009
330 California Street #H 08/29/18 $685,000 3 1515 1989
11359 Rockfi eld Drive 08/31/18 $670,000 3 1388 1961 $551,000 02/01/2010
EAGLE ROCK
4967 Mt. Royal Drive 08/31/18 $920,000 3 2040 1925
GLENDALE
3160 Vista Del Mar Drive 08/28/18 $1,320,000 3 3473 1949 $881,000 05/18/2004
2922 Oakendale Place 08/30/18 $1,284,545 3 1921 1949 $100,000 08/03/2018
1507 Corona Drive 08/31/18 $1,250,000 4 3378 2004
1344 Raymond Avenue 08/31/18 $1,155,000 3 1974 1926 $882,000 12/21/2017
1536 Ben Lomond Drive 08/28/18 $1,110,000 3 1840 1934
2328 Sylvan Lane 08/28/18 $950,000 2 1532 1941 $255,000 01/27/1994
2471 East Chevy Chase Drive 08/31/18 $920,000 3 1509 1977 $740,000 04/30/2014
867 East Mountain Street 08/31/18 $866,500 2 1572 1952 $510,000 06/30/2003
2775 Mira Vista Drive 08/29/18 $865,000 3 2220 1965 $522,000 11/03/2003
526 Milford Street 08/29/18 $840,000 2 762 1921 $550,000 08/18/2017
1342 Elm Avenue 08/31/18 $799,000 2 1106 1925 $453,000 07/10/2008
3517 Encinal Avenue 08/31/18 $769,000 2 977 1942
78 Barmore Court 08/31/18 $727,500 2 1837 1974 $147,000 12/29/1978
1259 Thompson Avenue 08/30/18 $720,000 2 1302 1924
1130 Campbell Street #101 08/28/18 $715,000 3 1780 2010 $582,000 06/21/2013
4434 Rosemont Avenue 08/28/18 $680,000 2 1053 1929 $220,000 04/16/1999
3312 Community Avenue 08/31/18 $669,000 2 1218 1932
356 West California Avenue #8 08/31/18 $540,000 2 1125 1982 $440,000 05/02/2016
1236 North Columbus Ave. #24 08/31/18 $539,000 2 1125 1974 $120,000 08/17/1987
3531 Clifton Place #1 08/30/18 $530,000 2 1269 1977
ADDRESS PRICE BDRMS.SQ. FT.YR. BUILTPREV. PRICE PREV. SOLD
GLENDALE
322 Raymond Avenue #11 08/31/18 $500,000 2 1194 1988 $370,000 04/15/2008
1841 Tyburn Street 08/31/18 $480,000 1 600 1922 $190,000 04/08/2003
1043 Thompson Avenue #1 08/31/18 $479,000 2 940 1986 $365,000 04/04/2008
377 West California Avenue #17 08/31/18 $350,000 1 726 1979 $112,500 07/23/1990
LA CAÑADA
5805 Lone Grove Way 08/28/18 $1,625,000 4 2539 1966 $1,300,000 08/15/2007
2064 Hilldale Drive 08/29/18 $1,450,000 3 2687 1997 $1,420,000 11/28/2016
966 Regent Park Drive 08/31/18 $1,150,000 3 1703 1950 $900,000 06/04/2009
2021 Ahlin Drive 08/31/18 $889,000 2 1048 1925 $500,000 04/14/2017
PA S A D E N A
600 West California Boulevard 08/30/18 $3,100,000 4 3521 1911 $1,310,500 09/05/2013
601 Michigan Boulevard 08/28/18 $2,630,000 3 2681 1930 $1,407,500 07/31/2017
361 Rosita Lane 08/27/18 $2,226,500 3 2233 1941 $425,000 03/04/1988
2051 East Woodlyn Road 08/28/18 $1,900,000 4 2860 1941 $792,000 05/29/2003
3735 Shadow Grove Road 08/30/18 $1,600,000 5 2947 1948 $490,000 10/07/1988
3346 Grayburn Road 08/29/18 $1,357,500 4 2304 1931
1670 Asbury Drive 08/28/18 $1,350,000 4 2480 2015 $635,000 10/20/2014
2014 Galbreth Road 08/29/18 $1,133,500 3 1884 1929 $700,000 08/04/2009
1166 East Howard Street 08/29/18 $970,000 4 2078 1921
3295 Hermanos Street 08/31/18 $968,000 2 980 1947
1150 Armada Drive 08/31/18 $950,000 3 1521 1949 $875,000 08/04/2016
344 South Orange Grove Blvd. 08/31/18 $940,000 2 1894 1974 $390,000 04/03/1998
1251 North Hill Avenue 08/30/18 $925,000 5 1967 1925
1501 Creekside Court #A 08/30/18 $900,000 4 2764 1988 $755,000 09/24/2008
2255 Monte Vista Street 08/30/18 $865,000 3 1493 1948 $760,000 03/09/2017
1222 Grace Drive 08/29/18 $835,000 2 1090 1923 $222,000 02/22/1996
925 East Elizabeth Street 08/30/18 $808,100 3 1416 1918 $590,000 07/01/2014
2072 Monte Vista Street 08/31/18 $800,000 2 1362 1941 $649,000 07/26/2016
1000 East California Blvd. #304 08/30/18 $780,000 2 1345 1984
1310 Brixton Road 08/27/18 $775,000 3 1253 1948
2880 Ashley Drive 08/30/18 $755,000 3 1660 1990 $375,000 07/18/2002
3243 Del Vina Street 08/29/18 $725,000 3 848 1941 $600,000 02/28/2018
777 South Marengo Avenue #2 08/28/18 $704,000 2 1180 1997 $604,500 06/29/2006
123 Pepper Street 08/29/18 $680,000 3 1198 1977 $340,000 07/16/2008
545 North Catalina Avenue 08/27/18 $680,000 2 864 1921 $330,000 09/09/2009
1521 Glen Avenue 08/30/18 $600,000 3 1063 1949
837 Magnolia Avenue #7 08/30/18 $573,500 2 952 1966 $406,000 06/22/2007
355 South Los Robles Ave.#208 08/31/18 $531,000 2 1040 1972 $235,000 03/10/2003
64 North Mar Vista Avenue #227 08/29/18 $530,000 3 1210 1987 $870,500 05/29/2009
170 North Sierra Bonita Ave. #15 08/30/18 $520,000 2 1066 1985 $378,000 11/04/2014
175 South Lake Avenue #315 08/31/18 $448,000 0 545 2003 $280,000 07/01/2010
SAN MARINO
1060 Roanoke Road 08/28/18 $2,925,000 5 4107 1930
714 Plymouth Road 08/31/18 $2,350,000 4 2975 1928 $2,188,000 03/16/2015
2520 Ridgeway Road 08/31/18 $2,261,000 4 2711 1948 $1,055,000 12/19/2007
1360 Lorain Road 08/28/18 $1,598,000 4 1747 1926
SIERRA MADRE
380 Deodar Circle 08/29/18 $1,260,000 3 2168 1967 $1,050,000 12/03/2007
187 East Montecito Avenue 08/31/18 $556,000 2 656 1910
SOUTH PASADENA
415 Oaklawn Avenue 08/30/18 $3,275,000 5 4470 1908 $500,000 09/06/2001
1915 Mission Street 08/31/18 $1,888,000 3 2017 1911 $1,550,000 08/05/2016
1115 Hope Street 08/30/18 $1,710,000 7 3596 1921 $300,000 09/30/1987
1921 Illinois Drive 08/30/18 $1,330,000 3 2000 1984 $450,000 12/27/1991
1960 Stratford Avenue 08/29/18 $1,295,000 3 1652 1942 $740,000 09/27/2005
1115 Maple Street 08/27/18 $1,050,000 3 2220 1922
1110 Magnolia Street #B 08/31/18 $758,000 2 1122 1980 $428,000 01/24/2012
124 Monterey Road #118 08/29/18 $615,000 2 1309 1981 $505,000 07/01/2014
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Bulletin Board
By Carl Kozlowski
ARTISTIC APPOINTMENTS
Tournament of Roses announces 2019 float judges
The Tournament of Roses has selected
Preston Bailey, Michael E. Berry, and Kimberly
Oldis to be float judges for the 130th Rose
Parade. The judges will grant awards based on
many criteria, including creative design, floral
craftsmanship, artistic merit, computerized
animation, thematic interpretation, floral and
color presentation, and dramatic impact.
The 2019 Tournament of Roses President
Gerald Freeny will announce the awardwinning
floats the morning of Jan. 1 on the
front steps of Tournament House, located at 319 S. Orange Grove Blvd.,
Pasadena.
Bailey was named one of the best wedding planners in the world by Vogue
Magazine and has been globally celebrated for his unique ability to transform
ordinary spaces into lush, theatrical environments. As a premier event
designer, he has established a client roster that includes celebrities, royal
families, CEO’s and athletes, and his art installations are featured across the
world with showcases in New York, Las Vegas, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Taiwan,
Macao and London.
Berry is the longest serving President/CEO in the history of the Kentucky
Derby Festival, one of the nation’s largest civic celebrations. He began his
career at the festival in 1986, following service as an assistant to Kentucky’s
governor. Berry oversees the planning and production of the award-winning
celebration with nearly seventy events on the festival’s official schedule.
Oldis has been involved in the floral industry for over 44 years, including
21 years as a member of the American Institute of Floral Designers (AIFD).
Oldis serves as the past president for the AIFD national board and previously
held many elected offices in the North Central and North West Regional
Chapters of AIFD. Oldis was also involved with the Rose Parade from 2005-
2010 as a Rose Parade float designer with Charisma Floats, and most recently
volunteered as a designer with Cal Poly.
TASTE TURNS TEN
Taste of South Lake Avenue celebrates its 10th
anniversary Sept. 29
More than 20 restaurants will take part in
the 10-year anniversary celebration for Taste
of South Lake from noon to 5 p.m. Sept. 29 at
the Shops on Lake, 345 S. Lake Ave. Thousands
are expected to attend the free event, which
also includes live cooking demonstrations,
performances by several popular local bands
and a beer, wine and cocktail garden.
Participating restaurants and businesses include Barrister Executive
Suites, Breakthru Fitness, Contessa Collections, Corner Bakery Café, Du-
Par’s Restaurant & Bakery, Facile Dermatology & Boutique, Ferguson Bath,
Kitchen and Lighting Gallery, Jersey Mike’s, LA Fitness, Logix Federal Credit
Union, Macy’s, Mendocino Farms, Mercado Pasadena, Nekter Juice Bar,
Nothing Bundt Cakes, Salad Farm, Sanrio Pasadena, San Sai Japanese Grill,
SunLife Organics, Ten Thousand Villages, The Counter Custom Built Burgers,
The Vitamin Shoppe, Urbane Cafe, Which Wich Superior Sandwiches, Wooree
Alternative Medical Group, Yogurtland and others.
Festivalgoers are invited to enjoy live music performances from local
emerging bands and internationally known artists throughout the day. The
stage begins with indie rock musical four-piece Arms Akimbo, followed by
roots and Americana musical collective The Sound of Ghosts and acclaimed
punk indie rock band The Regrettes. Indie pop songstress VERITE brings her
rich and ethereal vocals to the stage while acclaimed roots rock ‘n’ roll sister
duo Larkin Poe headlines the festival at 4 p.m. DJ William Reed will spin
throughout the day between sets.
Call (626) 792-1259 or visit southlakeavenue.org. n
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•ADVICE•
BY PATTI CARMALT-VENER
THE WORST
PAIN
BE PATIENT AND VIGILANT WITH
FRIEND WHO’S LOST A CHILD
Dear Patti,
This year I met a wonderful woman, Lynn, who is a dog trainer and lives in my
neighborhood. I’m an athletic trainer and we’ve been trading services. It’s been great fun.
We also have been taking walks together with our dogs, playing tennis and have started
to become good, genuine friends.
Three weeks ago Lynn’s teenage son died. There are different rumors; that he overdosed
on drugs, was killed in a fight, or committed suicide. I have no idea what really
happened. Nor do I care, except for how it affects my friend.
As soon as I heard the news, I called her but a family member answered and said
she was unable to come to the phone. After two weeks I dropped by. Her sister-in-law
answered the door and said Lynn hasn’t left the house, that she cries every day and often
through the night and isn’t ready to have visitors. Her family takes turns staying with
her and her husband. I’m glad to know Lynn and her husband have the support of their
family. I want her to know I’m here if she needs me. Besides calling and sending flowers,
is there anything else I can do?
— Michelle
Dear Michelle,
The death of a child is an impossible grief, the ultimate tragedy. Countless studies show
that losing a child is by far the most significant loss one can ever experience. When a child
dies suddenly, it’s impossible to comprehend that the son or daughter who was alive only
a moment ago is now gone forever, plunging those who loved them into an intense state of
shock and disbelief.
After the phase of shock comes a deep awareness of loss. In the early days of grieving,
it’s common for parents to experience excruciating pain, alternating with numbness
which may persist for months. Many parents who have lost a child feel they are now merely
existing and anything beyond that seems impossible. It’s normal for your friend to cry for a
very long time to come. I’m glad she’s surrounded with family during this period of sorrow,
but there’s no escaping the horrifying, gut-wrenching pain which comes from this kind of
heartbreak.
It’s not surprising you’re at a loss as to how to respond. It will be a great source of comfort
to her, however, just to know she’s in your thoughts. Send a sympathy letter letting her
know you’re available if she needs anything and that she doesn’t have to respond until she’s
ready. Lynn needs time. Ask those who are closest to her if there is any way you can be of
assistance by calling or writing out-of-town family and friends, doing housekeeping chores,
bringing meals or running errands.
When such a tragedy first occurs, many family and friends immediately reach out.
Yet after a month, they go on with their lives, often forgetting to check in. If Lynn doesn’t
respond for a month or two, let that be OK. Be patient. Write her once month, letting her
know you’re thinking of her. Eventually she’ll respond. If the grief continues longer than you
expect — months or even years — it’s important you never withdraw your support. While
nothing can replace the son she lost, Lynn’s need to honor his memory can be fulfilled with
the quiet knowledge that caring friends like you are there for the long-term and not just at
the beginning.
When you first see her, it isn’t necessary to say a great deal. A warm embrace will convey
much more. Let her take the lead in the conversation. If she doesn’t want to talk about her
son, respect her decision. If she does talk about what happened, give her your full attention.
A grieving parent will be thinking only about her child. Trying to distract her from her
bereavement will seem to be minimizing her loss. If she cries in your presence, respect her
tears. Don’t change the subject. Let her cry. Tears are healing.
The relationship between parents and their children is among the most intense in life.
Remember that it feels unnatural to outlive one’s own child. All bereaved parents lose a part
of themselves. I am so very sorry for this mother’s loss. n
Patti Carmalt-Vener, a faculty member with the Southern California Society for Intensive Short Term
Psychotherapy, is a psychotherapist in private practice with offices in Pasadena, Santa Monica and Canoga Park.
Contact her at (626) 584-8582 or email pcarmalt@aol.com. Visit her Web site, patticarmalt-vener.com.
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• ARTS •
ON THE RUN AGAIN
BEYONCÉ AND JAY-Z BRING THEIR TRI-
UMPHANT TOUR TO THE ROSE BOWL
THIS WEEKEND
FILM | THEATER | BOOKS | MUSIC | COMMUNITY | LISTINGS
NO ‘GRAY’ AREAS
A NOISE WITHIN’S PRODUCTION OF
‘A PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY’ LAYS
BARE OSCAR WILDE’S FULL
CONTROVERSIAL VISION
EVERYDAY PEOPLE
‘LIFE ITSELF’ WILL HAVE VIEWERS
APPRECIATING THEIR OWN LIVES
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EAST MEETS WEST
STAN LAI’S ‘NIGHTWALK’ AT THE HUNTINGTON MIXES PORTIONS OF A CHINESE ROMANTIC
TRAGICOMEDY WITH TALES OF EARLY 20TH-CENTURY CALIFORNIA
BY JANA J. MONJI
Walking at night along paths of the Chinese Garden at the Huntington
Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens can
be an intoxicating experience, one in which it’s easy to imagine
being rich and living on your own estate somewhere in China.
Beginning Sept. 21, The Huntington and the CalArts Center for
New Performance, the professional producing arm of California
Institute of the Arts, in association with Shanghai Kunqu Troupe,
will be allowing small groups to take a “Nightwalk in the Chinese
Garden,” a site-specific play written exclusively for the Huntington
by award-winning playwright Stan Lai.
People might not have heard of Lai, because although he was
born Lai Shung-chuan in Washington, DC in 1954, the Taiwanbased
playwright/director is best known for writing and directing
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Chinese-language plays, many of which revolutionized modern
theater in Taiwan in the 1980s. Lai received his PhD from UC Berkeley
in 1983 and was a professor and founding dean of the College of
Theatre at the National University of the Arts in Taiwan. He and his
wife, Ding Nai-chu, founded the contemporary theater group Performance
Workshop, also in Taiwan.
The cast of “Nightwalk in the Chinese Garden” includes CalArts
students and alumni, Chinese opera performers from the Shanghai
Kungu Troupe, as well as actors, musicians and dancers. And all of
it, except for a smattering of opera, is in English, something new for
Lai.
“At this time in my career, which is seemingly later because it’s
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GET YOUR OWN...
BY JOHN SOLLENBERGER
SCIENCE HISTORY
Mt. Wilson
trustees Dan
Kohne and Tim
Thompson and
docent Robert
Anderson discuss
their book, “A
Temple of Science:
The 100-Inch
Telescope of
Mount Wilson
Observatory,” celebrating the 100th anniversary
of the telescope, at 7 p.m. tonight, Thursday, Sept.
20 at Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 1010
Foothill Blvd., La Cañada Flintridge. Free. Call
(818) 790-0717 or visit flintridgebooks.com.
RECENT HIT
visit pasadenaseniorcenter.org.
HOOTENANNY
Free films screen
at 1 p.m. Fridays
at Pasadena
Senior Center,
85 E. Holly St.,
Pasadena. Friday’s
film is “Book Club”
(2018) starring
Diane Keaton and
Jane Fonda. Call
(626) 795-4331 or
The Altadena
Hootenanny
concert features
Americana band
Morrison and
Company, with
special guests
Double E and
Bad Business,
starting at 8 p.m.
Friday at Fraternal
Order of Eagles Aerie 719, 455 E. Woodbury Road,
Altadena. KROQ radio personality Jed the Fish is
master of ceremonies. Free. Visit facebook.com/
events/178179546203556/.
HOLIDAY HISTORY
The Sierra Madre
Playhouse
presents a free
staged reading of
“Butterflies are
Free” by Leonard
Gershe, the story
of Don Baker,
blind since birth
and the hero of his
mother’s children’s
book series, and his
overprotective mother. It’s staged at 7 p.m. Monday
at 87 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre. Call (626)
355-4318 or visit sierramadreplayhouse.org.
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Stan Lai
EAST MEETS WEST
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 21
been going on for over 30 years, and all in
the Chinese language, I really feel it’s time
to do more work in English and to serve as
a bridge because I am bilingual, bicultural.
“… Specifically “Taiwanese,” noted Lai, who
is also known as Stan, “but linking with the
greater Chinese culture.”
The evening Lai and I met in what is officially
known as Liu Fang Yuan, the Garden
of Flowing Fragrance at the Huntington,
he was regretting that the performances
wouldn’t start early enough for the audience
to appreciate the golden light that
was painting the plants and pavilions. The
water, murky green with algae, became a
liquid mirror, reflecting the wood pavilions,
stone walls and overhanging trees. During
the rehearsals, one line was punctuated by
a fish, perhaps catching a bug on the water
or offering some critical feedback. Earlier,
a squirrel had been chirping away, possibly
voicing displeasure that I was ruining his or
her usual evening revelry.
Lai, who has seen many ancient gardens
in China which are often “cluttered with residential
buildings and old houses,” said that
the layout and design of Huntington’s Chinese
Garden are special because, although
it is young, the level of workmanship is high
and the open space unusual.
Two years ago, Lai began what he called
“an extraordinary opportunity to explore
an immersive site-specific project that
had everything to do with the Huntington,
that had everything to do with the Chinese
Garden, and yet had nothing to do with it,”
Lai recalled. He felt this meant that “Mr.
Huntington becomes a figure in the play.
‘Blue Boy’ becomes a very important image
in the play.”
That was certainly a timely notion,
as while sold-out performances begin on
Friday, Sept. 21, Project Blue Boy, the first
major technical examination and conservation
treatment in public view of Thomas
Gainsborough’s 1770 “The Blue Boy,” opens
Saturday, Sept.22.
Living in Pasadena, many people likely
already know about “The Blue Boy,” but one
might not know about “The Peony Pavilion.”
That play, written by dramatist Tang Xianzu
in 1598, is about a young girl who falls asleep
in a garden and dreams of a young scholar.
Awakened, she can’t forget her dream lover
and dies of heartbreak. The scholar comes to
the garden and also dreams of the girl. The
girl is resurrected and the two are married.
Think of it like the myth of Orpheus and
Eurydice with a happy ending.
“Nightwalk” mixes portions of this
romantic tragicomedy with tales of early
20th-century California. Audiences will be
able to immerse themselves in the performance
while moving through the garden as
the story unfolds around them like scenes
from a Chinese scroll painting. Although the
play is performed in English, some passages
from “The Peony Pavilion” will be sung in
Chinese to the original music, according to
the Huntington’s website.
According to Lai, the first scene of
“Nightwalk” is set in a tea house with the
full group together. Then the audience
breaks in two. One group will see the
scenes in a clockwise order. The other will
view things going counter-clockwise. After
three more scenes, the groups converge
for the fifth scene which is Chinese opera.
From there, the groups will continue on,
seeing the scenes in the inverse order from
how the other group saw them.
“On the East side, we’re dealing with
themes from ‘Peony Pavilion,’” which is exclusively
about Chinese characters. “On the
West side, we’re dealing with a story from
the 1920s about California,” about an artist
who has been commissioned by Henry
Huntington to produce a painting. So what
is the play about? According to Lai, “What it
means to collect art. What it means to be an
artist. What it means to be Chinese. What it
means to be Chinese in America.”
Lai noted, “In this world today, there
are too many misunderstandings between
people. I think it’s important to become a
bridge for East and West to get to know each
other.” n
For more information, visit huntington.org or call
(626)405-2100.
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•INTO THE NIGHT•
BY BLISS BOWEN
Beyoncé
On the Run Again
•NITELIFE•
Thursday Sep. 20 through Wednesday Sep. 26
PLEASE NOTE: Deadline for Calendar submissions is noon.
Wednesday of the week before the issue publishes.
PASADENA, SOUTH
PASADENA & ALTADENA
1881 Bar
1881 E. Washington Blvd., Pasadena
(626) 314-2077
facebook.com/1881bar
Fridays—Live jazz
Saturdays—Gypsie jazz
Wednesdays—Reggae
The Blue Guitar
Arroyo Seco Golf Course
1055 Lohman Lane, South Pasadena
(323) 769-3500
blueguitar.club
Thursday—Mark Towns & Braziliance
The Boulevard Bar
3199 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena
(626) 356-9304
blvdbar.com
Fridays—Drag performances hosted by Tia Wanna
every Friday
Cabrera’s Mexican Cuisine
655 N. Lake Ave., Pasadena
(626) 795-0230
cabreras.com
Thursdays—Live jazz
Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays—Karaoke
Coffee Gallery Backstage
2029 N. Lake Ave., Altadena
(626) 798-6236
coffeegallery.com
Thursday—Richard Smith
Friday—Songwriter Salon
Saturday—Matinee show w/David Massengill; evening
show w/Dave Stamey
Sunday—Matinee show w/The Heart of Gold Band
featuring Tom Sweeney; evening show w/Déjà Vu
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young tribute
Wednesday—One for the Foxes
Der Wolfskopf
72 N. Fair Oaks Ave., Pasadena
(626) 219-6054
derwolfskopf.com
Fridays—“Night Court” features Deejay Kind Cromang
spinning vinyl soul, funk, disco and boogie
Edwin Mills by Equator
22 Mills Place, Pasadena
(626) 564-8656
edwinmills.com
Friday—Lynn Cardona
Saturday—Bri Sarikcioglu
Wednesday—Cassia DeMayo
The Mixx
443 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena
(626) 500-0021
themixxpasadena.com
Friday—Chauncey Hines & Mystique
Tuesday—The Healers
El Portal Restaurant
695 E. Green St., Pasadena
(626) 795-8553
elportalrestaurant.com
Fridays—Mariachi México
Saturdays—Alanniz
Sundays—Mariachi Bella
Ice House
24 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena
(626) 577-1894
icehousecomedy.com
Thursday—Good Stuff w/Mark Debonis; Stand-Up All
Stars w/Erica Rhodes
Friday—Hollywood Comes to Pasadena; Deathsquad
Saturday—Cool Beans Comedy Improv; Jeff Hodge
and Friends; Hollywood Comes to Pasadena;
Sunday—Fritz Coleman Speaks to a Generatio; Keith
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BEYONCÉ AND JAY-Z BRING THEIR TRIUMPHANT TOUR
TO THE ROSE BOWL THIS WEEKEND
I’ve never been married. I was
in a devoted relationship for 13
years with a man with whom
I am now, happily, good friends
— but married, no. I mention
that not to be burdensome with
TMI, but because it’s pertinent to
something I’ve been puzzling over
as it relates to the Carters, better
known as Beyoncé and Jay-Z, the
reining king and queen of American
pop, who are bringing their
highly anticipated OTR II road
show to the Rose Bowl Saturday
and Sunday.
On the Run II is a Europe and
North America-barnstorming
reprise of the megastar couple’s
sold-out summer 2014 tour, which
itself extended the Bonnie-&-
Clyde mythologizing of earlier
concerts. Tightly choreographed
and widely hyped, it represents
the pinnacle of 21st-century multimedia
spectacle. Jay-Z, the first
rapper inducted into the Songwriters
Hall of Fame, resurrects
hits like 1999’s “Big Pimpin’”;
Beyoncé continues to weave sociopolitical
themes into setpieces
like “Foundation” and “Freedom”
while finessing dance moves not
seen since Tina Turner’s heyday.
Cultural references range from
Nina Simone and O.J. Simpson to
Nigerian novelist Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie. All of that add
meaningful layers to this particular
presentation of their music.
Or does it? Along with projected
photos of the couple’s recently
born twins, what’s also on
display is the Carters’ undeniable
showmanship and their marriage,
the subject of endless, often cruel
gossip, and supposedly the foundation
undergirding the corporate
clout of their merged careers. But
in this context, what is marriage?
Steely professionalism?
Regardless of what you
think of its dizzying parade of
co-writers (and I retain profound
reservations about that
disjointed approach to songwriting),
Beyoncé’s seething 2016
album “Lemonade” was a time
capsule-worthy piece of artistic
statement-making. Jay-Z’s “4:44”
followed last year, humbling
himself to similar acclaim. They
flung accusations at each other
in their songs, sang mea culpas,
and pledged chastened fidelity to
their mutual vows, which made
for stirring musical moments on
those solo albums as well as their
joint effort “Everything is Love,”
which they released in June as
the Carters. But how believable
is that music when it’s defanged
and refashioned into a neatly
resolved story more palatable for
concert consumption? There’s
nothing easy embodied in the
roles of philandering husband
and righteously indignant wife,
nothing comfortable about the
contradictions in those different
narratives, and nothing tidy
about resolutions achieved to
reaffirm marital bonds. Pretending
there is makes it simpler to
package and market for show
promoters and the Carters’ Tidal
streaming service. But do we
who value the music also dismiss
messy, relatable ambiguity and
privacy in service of pretense?
What does it say about the
audience — about us — that we
reward that? n
Jay-Z & Beyoncé OTR II at the Rose Bowl,
1001 Rose Bowl Drive, Pasadena, 7:30
p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 22 and
23; $49-$350. Tickets: ticketmaster.com
Venue info: (626) 577-3100.
rosebowlstadium.com
Blazing Strato
DAVID M’ORE AND HIS BAND PERFORM SATURDAY
AT ARCADIA BLUES CLUB
A guitar hero arrived in LA in the early 1990s, determined to make his mark
on the music scene, and, by all accounts, David M’ore, appearing with his band
Saturday at the Arcadia Blues Club, has succeeded in that quest.
M’ore has become known for his aggressive guitar work, raspy vocals and
high-energy blues-rock. His six-string work amounts to sonic pyrotechnics.
Blazing away on his custom-made Stratocaster, he demonstrates his virtuoso
technique on his own originals and classic cover songs.
M’ore’s style blends a traditional blues sound with classic, British hard rock.
The Argentina native has traveled the world promoting his sound, taking influences
from such masters as Albert King, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Satriani and Johnny
Winter, to name a few.
His latest album is “From the Other Side of the River.”
Visit davidmore.net.— John Sollenberger
Music starts at 7 p.m. Saturday at Arcadia Blues Club, 16 E. Huntington Drive, Arcadia.
Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door. Call (626) 447-9349 or visit
arcadiabluesclub.com.
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•NITELIFE•
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Michael Ashton’s Sizzling Sexy Sunday
Wednesday—Ice House Open Mic; Wednesday Night
Live w/Rudy Moreno; Joe Rogan and Friends
TRAX BY BLISS
MANDY BARNETT, Strange Conversation
(Dame/ThirtyTigers): HHH½
Patsy Cline’s shadowed Barnett since she made a
refreshing splash with her self-titled debut in 1996. Small
wonder: she played Cline in the stage musical “Always
… Patsy Cline,” and her smoky tones and emotive
phrasing recall the late country legend. But working with
producers Marco Giovino and Doug Lancio on her first
album in five years, Barnett finally establishes a stronger
musical identity of her own, while still offering stylistic
nods to ’50s and ’60s country and soul. Highlights
include seductively grooving opener “More Lovin’”
and a surprising duet with John Hiatt on the Sonny
& Cher chestnut “A Cowboy’s Work is Never Done.”
mandybarnett.com
BILLY GIBBONS, The Big Bad Blues
(Concord): HHHH
As rock stars go, Gibbons is pretty humble, and it’s
not unheard of for him to jam on LA club stages
with local acts like Austin Hanks. Such occasions
have stoked fans’ hopes that the irreverent ZZ Top
guitarist would make a solo album of witty, gritty
roadhouse blues — a wish happily granted here.
The unmistakable, full-bodied tones of James
Harman’s harmonica are among the greasy pleasures
here, along with reverberating stripper beats from
drummers Greg Morrow and Matt Sorum, and searing
exchanges between Gibbons and keyboardist Mike
Flanigin. Satisfying from start to finish.
billygibbons.com
Kings Row Gastropub
20 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena
(626) 793-3010
kingsrowpub.com
Thursday—Thirsty Thursday w/Liela Avila
Friday—Just Gentlemen
Saturday—The Krowes
Sunday—Reggae Sunday w/My Reggae Band; Shake
Up Sundays w/Trio Frio
Wednesday—Midweek Mayhem w/David Macias
MEOWMEOWZ! Retro ‘80s Thrift Shop
2423 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena
(626) 798-6969
facebook.com/meowmeowz
Fridays and Saturdays—Live music every Friday and
Saturday; all ages welcome
Old Towne Pub
66 N. Fair Oaks Ave., Pasadena
(626) 577-6583
theoldtownepub.com
Live music most nignts of the week
Pasadena Ballroom Dance Association
73 N. Hill Ave., Pasadena
(626) 799-5689
pasadenaballroomdance.com
Saturday—Saturday Swing Dance features Red Young
& His Hot Horns
Plate 38
2361 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena
(626) 793-7100
plate38.com
Fridays & Saturdays—Live music on select Fridays &
Saturdays
The Rose
Paseo Colorado
245 E. Green St., Pasadena
(888) 645-5006
roseconcerts.com
Friday—Bon Jovi tribute w/Wanted
Saturday—Fuel
Sunday— Soulful Sunday Brunch; Tesla
T. Boyle’s Tavern
37 N. Catalina Ave., Pasadena
(626) 578-0957
tboylestavern.com
Sunday—Geeks Who Drink Trivia
Tuesday—Geeks Who Drink Trivia
SAN GABRIEL VALLEY
Arcadia Blues Club
16 E. Huntington Drive, Arcadia
(626) 447-9349
arcadiabluesclub.com
Saturday—David M’ore
The Buccaneer
70 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre
(626) 355-9045
https://www.facebook.com/Buccaneer-847437898642883/
Wednesday—Wednesday Night Platter Party: Bring
your fave vinyl to be spun on turntable
First Cabin
46 E. Huntington Drive, Arcadia
(626) 446-2575
Fridays-Saturdays—Pat O’Brien & the Priests of Love
exalt the blues and classic rock
The Granada
17 S. First St., Alhambra
(626) 227-2572
thegranadala.com
Thursday—Deejay Vince; Deejay Mic B; Solo Bachata
Dance Competition Grand Finals
Friday—Live music w/Guicho Y La Tribu; Deejay Marco;
Deejay Moreno; Deejay Miro
Saturday—Live music w/Orquesta Borquien; Deejay
Jojo; Deejay Miro; Deejay Pachanga
Sunday—Chicago Steppin
Tuesday—Deejay Goodtimes
J.C. Hyke Songwriter Serenade
Matt Denny’s Ale House
145 E. Huntington Drive, Arcadia
(626) 462-0250
mattdennys.com, jchyke.com
Tuesday—Matthew Moran; Mario Rojas; Beth Fitchet
Wood; Matthew Fowler
Villa Catrina
251 N. Santa Anita Ave., Arcadia
(626) 294-1973
villacatrina.com
Thursdays—Comedy open mic every first and third
Thursday of the month
Wednesdays—Karaoke w/Deejay Zary
WEST OF PASADENA
Colombo’s Restaurant
1833 Colorado Blvd., Eagle Rock
(323) 254-9138
colombosrestaurant.com
Thursday—Trifecta
Friday—Steve Thompson; Blue Soul
Saturday—Ernie Draffen; Teelo and Friends
Sunday—Sasaki & Giles
Monday—Eric Ekstrand Trio
Tuesday—Tom Armbruster
Wednesday—Jimmy Spencer, Karen Hernandez and
Friends
Days Inn Lounge
450 Pioneer Drive, Glendale
(323) 259-5900
tommydodson.com
Fridays—Tommy Dodson and friends present Cabaret
Fridays
The Oak and Vine
117 E. Harvard St., Glendale
(818) 507-7011
theoakandvine.com
Live music most nights of the week
Winchester Room
6522 San Fernando Road, Glendale
(818) 241-5475
thewinchesterroom.com
Friday—Karaoke
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AMY HELM, This Too Shall Light
(Yep Roc): HHH
Helm’s lustrous vocal tones and gospel conviction are
intuitively complemented by bassist Jennifer Condos
and drummer Jay Bellerose, longtime members of
producer Joe Henry’s production stable, and guitarist
Doyle Bramhall II throughout this ear-pleasing set. Helm
and Henry’s tasteful, rootsy arrangements highlight the
delicate tension between the earthly and the celestial
in blues- and country-tinged songs by Hiss Golden
Messenger, Milk Carton Kids, and Allen Toussaint, among
others. As a whole it’s less inspiring than Helm’s YEAR
debut “Didn’t It Rain,” but “Gloryland,” a rousing a
cappella hymn played by Helm’s father Levon, takes the
album out on the wings of stirring four-part harmony — a
fittingly soulful tribute to the legacy Helm carries forward.
amyhelm.com
NEIL & LIAM FINN, Lightsleeper
(Lester/Inertia): HHH
Pop tunesmith Neil Finn teams with son Liam for a
dreamy set more intriguingly textured and less buoyant
than his career-making hits with Crowded House.
Despite highlights like the gauzy “Meet Me in the Air,” the
Prince-nodding “Where’s My Room” and synth-sculpted
“Hiding Place,” it ultimately sounds more like individually
compelling elements — haunting piano solos, a sticky
bassline here, a gypsy accordion there — in search of
melodic unity. neilandliamfinn.com
Cowboy Troubadour
DAVE STAMEY PERFORMS AT COFFEE GALLERY BACKSTAGE
Cowboy troubadour Dave Stamey, who performs Saturday at Coffee Gallery Backstage in Altadena, is one of the country’s
most popular Western entertainers.
Stamey’s been named the Western Music Association’s Male Performer of the Year and has received the Will Rogers Award
for Male Vocalist of the Year from the Academy of Western Artists.
Stamey boasts a huge repertoire of classic and original Western folk music, providing a link to the great cowboy balladeers
of the past. The singing, guitar-playing entertainer delivers a fun show, with songs, stories and a sense of humor that drive the
performance.
Visit davestamey.com. — John Sollenberger
Music starts at 7 p.m. Saturday at Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N. Lake Ave., Altadena. Tickets are $25. Call (626) 798-6236
or visit coffeegallery.com.
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No ‘Gray’ Areas
A NOISE WITHIN’S PRODUCTION OF ‘A PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY’
LAYS BARE OSCAR WILDE’S FULL CONTROVERSIAL VISION
Ever since Oscar Wilde thrust his classic
Gothic novel “A Picture of Dorian Gray”
onto the world in 1890, it drew intense
interest as well as controversy. In fact,
when it first ran in Lippincott’s Monthly
Magazine, the editor deleted nearly 500
words without Wilde’s knowledge even
before it was published.
The story of a man named Dorian
Gray who was entranced by the beauty
of his own portrait and sells his soul to
preserve his youth— but learns there’s
a devastating price to pay for it— had
strong homoerotic elements that were
censored then and glossed over in most
film and theatrical adaptations.
But now Pasadena’s acclaimed
repertory theater A Noise Within will
be presenting a bold new production
of “Gray” that lays bare its themes of
hedonism and the insatiable pursuit of
pleasure and runs from Sunday through
Nov. 16.
“Wilde’s homosexuality was an
integral part of his expression —
publicly, privately and in his work. This
adaptation restores the homoerotic
aspects of the novella which have been
conspicuously missing in most adaptations,”
says director Michael Michetti,
who returned to explore the themes on
an even deeper level than the awardwinning
production he helmed for ANW
in 2006.
“Dorian, while clearly attracted to
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women, displays his most lasting and
intimate relationships with the men who
adore him. Indeed, anyone who will worship
Dorian seems to be fair game, and
those who he leaves in his wake include
more men than women.”
“Many are more familiar with
the story’s 1945 film adaptation, or
the Showtime series ‘Penny Dreadful,’
where Gray is a character,” adds
Michetti. “Both of those take huge liberties
with what Wilde wrote. But those
who do think they know the story think
of it as a Gothic horror story. That’s
not entirely true of Wilde’s novela, and
definitely not true of this adaptation.”
While Michetti and his cast, led by
Colin Bates as Gray, are reviving the tale
by highlighting the racier aspects that
were an essential part of Wilde’s original
vision, the production will be traditional
in other respects. While the story still
unfolds in the Victorian era, “It’s seen
through a modern lens with a very
minimalist approach,” Michetti says,
in which even the costumes are more
streamlined in an attempt to not distract
viewers with excessive finery.
“In the production 12 years ago
there wasn’t such a thing as a selfie,
though in 2006 there were other reflections
of our society’s narcissism,”
explains Michetti. “But with new
articulations of narcissism with selfies,
and the cult of celebrity now, I do think
Oscar Wilde
there are some ways in which this play’s
themes are more on the front burner,
more clear in the 12 years that have
passed since last time.”
For this production, Michetti also
tracked down the original manuscripts
of Wilde’s tale by printing it out on microfiche
at the downtown Los Angeles
public library. Seeing the author’s full
vision for the story helped the director
oversee “a handful of rewrites” that
helped bring the new version to life.
“It’s hard to know what his initial
intention is, and I think the supernatural
and horror aspects were emphasized
more in the past because they were
titillating,” says Michetti. “Even if you
go back to the 1945 film which exposed
many people to the story, even that
version was somewhat less about the
psychological journey and more about
the horrible actions of him. I find that
the depth with which Wilde understands
the human mind and psychology in a
pre-Freud era is really remarkable in this
era. That’s what I find most compelling
about the story, and they are the things
that jump out to me when I read the
novel.” n
“A Picture of Dorian Gray” previews at 2 p.m.
Sunday, opens Sept. 29 and runs through Nov.
16 at A Noise Within, 3300 E. Foothill Blvd.,
Pasadena. Tickets start at $25. Call (626) 356-
3121 or visit anoisewithin.org.
Thursday Sep. 20 through Wednesday Sep. 26
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THURSDAY
The Blue Guitar
Arroyo Seco Golf Course
1055 Lohman Lane, South Pasadena
blueguitar.club
The club at Arroyo Seco Golf Course presents
Mark Towns & Braziliance at 7:30 p.m. Tickets
are $10 general admission, $15 for table seating,
available on the website.
Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse
1010 Foothill Blvd., La Cañada Flintridge
(818) 790-0717
flintridgebooks.com
Mount Wilson trustees Dan Kohne and Tim
Thompson and docent Robert Anderson
discuss their book, “A Temple of Science: The
100-Inch Telescope of Mount Wilson Observatory,”
celebrating the 100th anniversary of the
telescope, at 7 p.m.
Noor
300 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena
noorevents.com
Acoustic performer, singer and songwriter Peter
Harper launches his Thursday residency at
Noor, performing once a month until December,
starting at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $8.
One Colorado
41 Hugus Alley, Pasadena
(626) 564-1066
onecolorado.com
One Colorado offers free children’s programming
Thursdays in September. Today’s selection
is Puppets & Players Little Theater at 10
a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Pasadena Public Library, Central Branch
285 E. Walnut St., Pasadena
(626) 744-4066
pasadenapubliclibrary.net
Noteworthy Puppets present “Kid Zorro, the
Bilingual Puppet Musical” at 10 a.m. Kimberly
Allison from Starliner Music hosts School of
Rock, as kids 10 to 14 learn about the history
of rock, jam on an electric guitar, learn some
easy rock riffs and take part in a jam session
from 5 to 7 p.m. No experience necessary, and
guitars and amps are provided. Call and press
option 4 to sign up.
Pasadena Senior Center
85 E. Holly St., Pasadena
(626) 795-4331
pasadenaseniorcenter.org
Financial professionals Hanna Chang and Jonathon
Poon of New York Life discuss ways to
create generational wealth and use tax-efficient
solutions to pass along the greatest benefits to
your loved ones starting at 10 a.m.
Sierra Madre Playhouse
87 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre
(626) 355-4318
sierramadreplayhouse.org
In conjunction with its current production of
“The Gin Game,” the Playhouse invites guests
of all ages 10 and up to learn and play the game
of gin from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Free.
Vroman’s Bookstore
695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena
(626) 449-5320
vromansbookstore.com
Vroman’s and Alta Magazine present Miriam
Pawel in conversation with David Ulin discussing
and signing “The Browns of California: The
Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and
Shaped a Nation” at 7 p.m.
FRIDAY
Altadena Hootenanny
Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie 719
455 E. Woodbury Road, Altadena
facebook.com/events/178179546203556/
The concert features Americana band Morrison
and Company, with special guests Double E
and Bad Business, starting at 8 p.m. KROQ
radio personality Jed the Fish is master of
ceremonies. Free.
Boston Court Performing Arts Center
70 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena
(626) 683-6801
bostoncourt.com
A concert features the Faktura Piano Trio
performing classical and contemporary works
at 8 p.m. Tickets are $30 and $35.
The Huntington Library, Art Collections and
Botanical Gardens
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino
(626) 405-2100
huntington.org
A new work written and directed by playwright
Stan Lai, “Nightwalk in the Chinese Garden”
begins, presented in partnership with the CalArts
Center for New Performance. The play is
set against the backdrop of the garden, lake and
pavilions at night, weaving together elements
of the Chinese romantic tragi-comedy “The
Peony Pavilion” with tales of early 20th century
California. The play is performed in English with
some passages from “The Peony Pavilions”
sung in Chinese. The work is presented from
7:30 to 9 p.m. nightly, except Sundays through
Oct. 26. Tickets are $95 to $150, or $85 to
$140 for members.
IAMA Theatre Company Production
Pasadena Playhouse
39 S. El Molino Ave., Pasadena
(323) 380-8843
iamatheatre.com
In a guest production at the Pasadena
Playhouse, IAMA Theatre Company presents
“American Hero,” with regular performances
starting at 8:30 p.m. Friday and continuing
at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 7 p.m.
Sundays through Oct. 21. It’s playwright Bess
Wohl’s darkly comic celebration of the power
of unity and teamwork to overcome adversity.
“American Hero” is the story of three up-andcoming
sandwich makers at a sub franchise,
whose quest to attain the American dream is
interrupted by a series of strange events, and
they become unlikely allies in a post-recession
world. Tickets are $40 for Friday’s opening, $30
thereafter.
Pasadena Senior Center
85 E. Holly St., Pasadena
(626) 795-4331
pasadenaseniorcenter.org
Free films screen at 1 p.m. on select Fridays.
Friday’s film is “Book Club” (2018).
Vroman’s Bookstore
695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena
(626) 449-5320
vromansbookstore.com
Luis Reyes discusses and signs “Made in
Mexico: Hollywood South of the Border” at 7
p.m.
SATURDAY
Arcadia Performing Arts Center
188 Campus Drive, Arcadia
arcadiapaf.org
The Star Party Gala features Grammy Award
winning jazz vocalist Steve Tyrell. Tickets are
$20 general admission to $300 VIP admission.
VIP admission starts at 5 p.m., including a
meet-and-greet and silent auction, doors open
for general admission at 7:30 p.m. and the
concert starts at 8 p.m.
Boston Court Performing Arts Center
70 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena
(626) 683-6801
bostoncourt.com
A classical music concert, “Remembering
Things Past: Proust and His Music” features
pianist Jérémie Favreau and violinist Ken Aiso
performing the fictional “Vinteuil” violin sonata
in Marcel Proust’s novel, “Remembrance of
Things Past” with words and music that actually
inspired it and Fauré’s “Ballade” in music

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of the Belle Epoque at 8 p.m. Tickets are $30
and $35.
Norton Simon Museum
411 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena
(626) 449-6840
nortonsimon.org
A guided tour visits works featuring images
representing Ganesha, the elephant-headed
god, from 1 to 2 p.m., included in regular
museum admission of $15 for adults, $12 for
seniors, free for members, students and those
18 and younger.
Pasadena Public Library, Linda Vista Branch
1281 Bryant St., Pasadena
(626) 744-7278
pasadenapubliclibrary.net
The LV Teen Book Club meets to discuss “Girl
on a Plane” by Miriam Moss at 3 p.m.
Pasadena Symphony and POPS Moonlight
Sonata Gala
Pasadena City Hall
100 N. Garfield Ave, Pasadena
(626) 793-7172
pasadenasymphony-pops.org
The Moonlight Sonata Gala raises funds benefiting
the Symphony and POPS. This year it
honors Distinct Luminaries Seyfarth Shaw LLP
and Barbara Mann Steinwedell for their support
of the orchestra. The evening includes libations
and hors d’oeuvres, a silent and live auction,
dinner, an awards presentation and dancing
under the stars to live music. It starts at 5:30
p.m. Single tickets are $275.
Red Hen Press
1540 Lincoln Ave., Pasadena
(626) 356-4760
redhen.org
Red Hen Press presents an afternoon of jazz
and poetry, “Jazz and the Abstract Truth,”
featuring poets William Archila and Douglas
Manuel with jazz by Dr. Ray Briggs, Jazz Studies
Department Chair at Pasadena Conservatory
of Music, starting at 4 p.m. Refreshments will
be served. Free.
TEDxPasadena
The Huntington Library, Art Collections and
Botanical Gardens
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino
tedxpasadena.org
TEDxPasadena brings together thought leaders
with the theme “TRANSFORM” from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. The theme celebrates the ability
to transform, from subtle internal shifts to
earth-shaking, quantifiable ones. The program
will include a roster of 12 speakers exploring
stories and words that change the way we
think, experience, contribute to and live in the
world. The TRANSFORM theme was inspired by
other-worldly facets of transformation, such as
caterpillars to butterflies, winter to spring and
simple marks on paper to a stunning portrait.
Tickets are $125 to $1,000, available on the
website.
SUNDAY
A Noise Within
3352 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena
(626) 356-3121
anoisewithin.org
A Noise Within presents “A Picture of Dorian
Gray,” based on a novella by Oscar Wilde. Gray,
who sells his soul to preserve his youth, pays
a price, descending into debauchery as those
around him are drawn to their own ruin. It
opens at 2 p.m. Sunday and continues through
Nov. 16. Tickets are $25 and up.
Alex Theatre
216 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale
(818) 243-2539
alextheatre.org
The Musical Theatre Guild presents “Mame,”
with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, based
on the novel “Auntie Mame” by Patrick Dennis
and the subsequent stage play by Jerome Lawrence
and Robert E. Lee. Auntie Mame takes
guests on a wild ride of life with her nephew,
Patrick, powered by one of Jerry Herman’s
most joyous scores. The performance starts at
7 p.m. Tickets are $45.
All Saints Church
132 N. Euclid Ave., Pasadena
(626) 796-1172
allsaints-pas.org
Those looking to make a difference, meet new
people, to deepen their faith journey, to serve
others or to have a good time are invited to All
Saints’ Celebration of Ministries between the
11:15 a.m. and 1 p.m. services.
Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse
1010 Foothill Blvd., La Cañada Flintridge
(818) 790-0717
flintridgebooks.com
Carol Graham Pereira discusses “Helder’s
Story: A Death with Dignity” at 4 p.m.
Langham Huntington, Pasadena
1401 S. Oak Knoll Ave., Pasadena
langhamhotels.com/pasadena
The Langham’s Mid-Autumn Festival includes
live music, Chinese dragon dancers and
family-friendly, interactive food stations, from
5 to 9 p.m. Tickets are $38 to $88, and must
be purchased in advance at eventbrite.com/e/
mid-autumn-festival-tickets-48578348147 for
tickets.
Obama Highway Sign Naming Party
Private residence, Pasadena
pasadenacf.org/funds/barack-obama-highwayfund
The Pasadena Community Foundation invites
guests to join State Sen. Anthony J. Portantino,
Ruth and Joe Hopkins and John Gallogly, who
originated the idea, to a fundraiser to purchase
highway signs naming a section of the 134
Freeway between Glendale and the 210 Freeway
the President Barack H. Obama Highway. The
fundraiser runs from 2 to 4 p.m. Admission
is a suggested donation of $30. RSVP to
the website, and email Darla Dyson at info@
anthonyportantino.com for information.
San Gabriel Mission Playhouse
320 S. Mission Drive, San Gabriel
(626) 308-2868
missionplayhouse.org
Heidi Duckler Dance presents “The Story of
Ramona” at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 to $50.
Soulful Sunday Brunch
The Rose
245 E. Green St., Pasadena
(888) 645-5006
roseconcerts.com
Enjoy a live Motown-style band, gospel choir
and mouthwatering brunch from $29 to $58.
The $18.50 general admission does not include
brunch. Brunch starts at 10 a.m. and music
starts at 11 a.m.
MONDAY
Sierra Madre Playhouse
87 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre
(626) 355-4318
sierramadreplayhouse.org
The Playhouse Off the Page series of free,
staged readings presents “Butterflies are Free”
by Leonard Gershe, the story of young Don
Baker, blind since birth and the hero of his
mother’s children’s book series, “Donny Dark,”
and his overprotective mother who follows his
every move. After taking his own apartment and
pursuing his songwriting ambitions, he meets
his kooky neighbor, a sexy actress, and his
mother’s instincts go into overdrive, with hilariously
touching results. It’s staged at 7 p.m.
Taste of Arcadia
Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic
Garden
301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia
(626) 447-2159
arcadiachamber.org
The Arcadia Chamber of Commerce’s annual
Taste of Arcadia takes place from 5:30 to 9
p.m. The event features a wide variety of food
from local vendors, fine wines from around
the country and locally distilled liquors. In
addition, 40 booths from local businesses offer
information about their products and services.
Chamber members will be on hand to meet and
greet guests. Individual tickets are $50 and VIP
tickets for tables of 10 are $800.
Vroman’s Bookstore
695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena
(626) 449-5320
vromansbookstore.com
Kevin Kwan discusses and signs “Rich People
Problems” at 7 p.m.
TUESDAY
Crowell Public Library
1890 Huntington Drive, San Marino
(626) 300-0777
crowellpubliclibrary.org
The music discussion series “Jazz and Swing
from A to Z: The Story of America’s Music,”
with Dr. Thom Mason, USC Professor Emeritus
of Jazz Studies, continues with a discussion of
Nat “King” Cole from 12:30 to 2 p.m., continuing
Tuesdays through Oct. 16. Free. Jordan Sollito,
of the steering committee of the Pasadena
Foothills Chapter of the Citizens Climate Lobby,
discusses San Marino’s Climate Action Plan to
address the threat of global warming, starting
at 7 p.m.
Pasadena Senior Center
85 E. Holly St., Pasadena
(626) 795-4331
pasadenaseniorcenter.org
Seniors 62 and older can get a senior reducedfare
Metro TAP card from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Photos for the cards will be taken during the
event and temporary cards issued that day. The
fall term of the Masters Series, which embraces
lifelong learning starts Tuesday and continues
from 2 to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Nov. 13
(no session Oct. 2). Tuesday’s session features
Randy Schulman, vice president for advancement
at the Huntington, in a photo tour of its
many gardens. Cost for the series is $105, or
$15 for each session.
One Colorado
41 Hugus Alley, Pasadena
(626) 564-1066
onecolorado.com
The Bob Baker Marionette Theater puts on
a show for kids at 4:30 p.m. every Tuesday
through September. Free.
WEDNESDAY
Pasadena Public Library, Central Branch
285 E. Walnut St., Pasadena
(626) 744-4066
pasadenapubliclibrary.net
Free films screen at 1 p.m. Wednesdays.
Wednesday’s films are “Leonard Bernstein:
Larger than Life (2016) and “Leonard Bernstein’s
Young People’s Concerts: The Latin
American Spirit” (1963). A STEAM event for
adults and teens invites guests to learn 3D
printing from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Visit pasadenapubliclibrar.net/steam
to sign up.
The Rose
245 E. Green St., Pasadena
(888) 645-5006
roseconcerts.com
Make your own music with karaoke in the
Lobby Lounge at The Rose Wednesday through
Saturday night.
Wine & Song Music Series
Arroyo Seco Golf Course
1055 Lohman Lane, South Pasadena
wineandsong.com
Brad Colerick’s weekly singer-songwriter series
features Jill Freeman and Ali MGuirk at 7 p.m.
Tickets are $10 general admission, $15 for
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‘Made’ Man
PASADENA AUTHOR LUIS REYES REVEALS THE
SURPRISING HISTORY OF MEXICO AND HOLLYWOOD
BY CARL KOZLOWSKI
The 1997 Best Picture-winning “Titanic” might be one of the most-watched
movies of all time, but most viewers probably didn’t realize that the tale based
on the tragic sinking of a trans-Atlantic ocean cruise felled by an iceberg was
actually shot in Mexico. The hundreds of extras portraying everyone from
the richest patrons through the lowliest passengers were nearly all Mexicans,
rather than Caucasians from Europe.
Film buffs might also be surprised to learn that John Travolta didn’t catch
his first break in movies playing Danny in “Grease” or Tony in “Saturday Night
Fever,” but rather with a small part in a horror film called “The Devil’s Rain”
which was also shot south of the border. These and other little-known pieces
of history — including the fact that John Wayne made 10 films in Mexico and
that Puerto Vallarta was transformed from being a sleepy little fishing village
into a world-class resort destination due to its use in John Huston’s “Night of
the Iguana” — are among many fascinating facts to be found in Pasadena author
Luis Reyes’ new book “Made in Mexico: Hollywood South of the Border,”
which he will discuss with Mexican film star Jorge Rivero and sign at 7 p.m.
Friday at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena.
“I had worked as a publicist on 10 films in Mexico and I was meeting a lot
of the Mexican technicians who were telling me the films they worked on that
I didn’t realize were made in Mexico,” says Reyes. “I researched and realized
there was very little information on Hollywood films made in Mexico. There
were plenty of books on Mexican cinema but not one on Hollywood movies
made in Mexico, even though Mexico and Hollywood have had such an
intrinsic relationship since the beginning of film.”
Indeed, Reyes lays out the surprisingly close relationship between Hollywood
and Mexico, recounting the story of Churbusco Studios in Mexico City, which
was the largest filmmaking facility in Latin America and was partially funded by
America’s RKO Studios in the 1940s under the Good Neighbor Policy. That policy
was created by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to improve relations between
the US and Latin America and encourage democracy over dictatorships in the
hope of preventing those nations from aligning with Hitler and Mussolini.
“What I hope to do is show that through films, we can get a better understanding
of each other because the heroes on the screen are fun and we
all grew up with these films,” says Reyes. “We grew up with these stars, so
there’s always been an intercultural exchange between Hollywood and Mexico
that gave us an understanding of each other. Movies are the international
language, where there are no borders.” n
Luis Reyes will discuss and sign “Made In Mexico: Hollywood South of the
Border” at 7 p.m. Friday at Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.,
Pasadena. Call (626) 449-5320 or visit vromansbookstore.com.
09.20.18 | PASADENA WEEKLY 27

PW OPINION PW NEWS PW LIFE PW ARTS
•FILM•
BY CARL KOZLOWSKI
Everyday People
‘LIFE ITSELF’ WILL HAVE VIEWERS APPRECIATING THEIR OWN LIVES
In a cinematic landscape increasingly dominated by effects-driven
spectacles, Hollywood doesn’t seem to make tearjerker films
anymore — movies like “Brian’s Song,” “Love Story” and “Titanic”
that pack an emotional wallop rooted in characters that viewers
care about deeply. But writer-director Dan Fogelman has been filling
that gap weekly on television for the past two seasons with the
smash hit NBC series “This Is Us.”
Now he’s hitting the multiplex with “Life Itself,” which is guaranteed
to make viewers cry their eyes out for two hours while counting
their blessings and reconsidering their life choices. Told in five
different book-like chapters that each follow a different character
while leaping among time frames and countries and inventive narration
techniques to boot, Fogelman keeps viewers on their toes
throughout as he finds fascinating ways to bring the seemingly
disparate tales together.
The movie opens with Samuel L. Jackson narrating as himself,
dropping MF-bombs galore as usual, while telling the story of a guy
named Will (Oscar Isaac in a superb performance) and his therapist
(Annette Bening), who is trying to help him process a tragedy
that has left him emotionally shaken and a hopeless alcoholic. Just
when the viewer is drawn into their intense interpersonal dynamic,
the session ends, the therapist heads home through busy New York
streets and then is killed by a bus in the first of several utterly jarring
moments throughout the film.
The camera cuts to Jackson in the crowd of onlookers, and he
throws his hands up in the air saying he can’t handle the shock and
literally walks off the screen and out of the movie. A female voice
takes over for the rest of the film, but Fogelman has managed to
knock viewers on their heels, making t hem realize that anything
can happen in this tale.
Thus the concept of the unreliable narrator is applied, in which
viewers have to consider that the story is told from an individual
perspective rather than objective reality. In a flashback to Will and
Abby’s early days of romance in college, she posits that life itself is
an unreliable narrator in anyone’s story — that the constant possibility
of surprise that everyday life can provide at any moment can
alter our entire life trajectory.
Will and Abby are the center of the film’s first chapter, which
unfolds between Will’s destructive behavior in the present and the
Olivia Wilde and Oscar Isaac in Life Itself.
dawn of love and hope that brought them together and formed their
marriage and her pregnancy. But when two tragedies strike, the
story jumps to follow the life of their daughter Dylan (Olivia Cooke),
who winds up raised by her doting grandfather Irwin (Mandy
Patinkin) and turns out an embittered 21-year-old shrieking punk
versions of classic love songs in dingy clubs.
Meanwhile, the story leaps to Spain to follow the story of an
olive picker named Javier (Sergio Peris-Mencheta) who is madly
in love with his wife Isabel (Laia Costa) and awaiting the birth of
his son Rigo (Alex Monner). When his boss Mr. Saccione (Antonio
Banderas) puts him in charge of the pickers and enables him and his
family to move into a beautiful house on the farm for free, life seems
to be perfect — until unexpected circumstances make him feel he
has to step out of their lives in order to keep them safe and secure.
It’s hard to reveal much more about the plot of “Life Itself” without
ruining its tremendous impact. Every one of the stories draws
viewers into the characters’ lives, then delivers a stunning blow,
before ultimately interweaving the tales together in a way that is not
only brilliant but profoundly uplifting.
This is a gentle film between the shocking moments, filled with
detailed characters, emotional nuances and great performances.
These are all qualities in short supply in today’s film marketplace,
where the more human stories are often also subjected to Oscarseeking
bombast with self-important themes rather than simply
giving us people to care about and relate with.
Lest this kind of description makes it sound like a Hallmark TV
movie, be aware that the opening story of Will has a ton of foul language
in it — more than you’ll find in most R-rated movies outside of
a Scorsese Mafia film, although it fits in the context of Will’s drunk
and traumatized emotional state, and the rest of the movie has much
less profanity. And the plot twists were shocking enough to make
me gasp loudly each time, to the point that my fellow critics turned
to see if I was OK.
I say that is a good thing. This movie made me feel the full
range of human emotions, all in the space of two hours, and left me
contemplating who and what people and circumstances affect me
personally in my own life. It should do the same for anyone else who
settles in for a viewing. n
“LIFE ITSELF” GRADE: A
CAPSULE REVIEWS
BY CARL KOZLOWSKI
ASSASINATION NATION
Stars: Odessa Young, Hari Nef, Joel McHale
Length: 110 mnutes
Directed by: Sam Levinson
Rating: R
If your idea of entertainment is two hours
of teenage girls making incredibly stupid
sexting decisions before getting emotionally
devastated, beaten, raped, hung and shot
at, before getting equally brutal revenge
and playing most of it for laughs, this is for
you. Hopefully, most will pass on this vile,
degrading, inhumane film. Grade: F
BLAZE
Stars: Ben Dickey, Alia Shawkat, Charlie Sexton
Length: 127 minutes
Directed by: Ethan Hawke
Rating: R
Boring, shapeless, self-indulgent, pretentious and
overlong, Ethan Hawke's cinematic homage to the
life of underrated country singer Blaze Foley takes
over two hours to go almost nowhere with his life
story. If you're a fan of boring pastiches of drunk
people sitting around in fields or on porches while
entire songs are played at a molasses pace, this
is your movie. Its only saving grace is that some
of the songs are sweet, but that doesn't make for
good cinema. Grade: D
WHITE BOY RICK
Stars: Matthew McConnaughey, Richie Merritt,
Bel Powley
Length: 110 minutes
Directed by: Yann Demange
Rating: R
Richie Merritt comes out of literally nowhere to
give one of the best debut performances ever,
playing Ricky Wershe Jr., who at 16 became
the youngest drug informant in U.S. history. He
matches Matthew McConnaughey toe-to-toe,
as the Oscar winner plays his father, another
in a string of unglamorous white-trash loser
roles that suit him surprisingly well. Riveting
and gritty with flashes of explosive dark
humor, this movie is a wakeup call for our very
damaged judicial system. Grade: A
A SIMPLE FAVOR
Stars: Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively,
Henry Golding
Length: 117 minutes
Directed by: Paul Feig
Rating: R
Director Feig made his name as a master
director of female comedies (“Bridesmaids”),
but he tries to shake things up with a
Hitchcockian thriller about a rich woman who
disappears and the friend who discovers she’s
not what she seems as she searches for her.
Problem is, Feig keeps trying for laughs that
negate the thrills, while the often too-shocking
twists make it hard to laugh. Grade: C
JULIET, NAKED
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Rose Byrne, Chris O’Dowd
Length: 105 minutes
Directed by: Jesse Peretz
Rating: R
This romantic dramedy features the luminous
Byrne as a woman caught between her
self-absorbed boyfriend and the ‘90s rock
star whose disappearance he obsesses over.
A thoughtful and increasingly funny look at
mid-life crisis and the power of music to
transform lives, this is a nice change of pace
after summer blockbusters, but it has a few
too-slow patches in its first half. Grade: B
28 PASADENA WEEKLY | 09.20.18

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Vintage Jewelry & Collectibles Free
Verbal Appraisals. Two locations.
1325 Huntington Dr., South Pasadena
and 56 S. De Lacey, Old Pasadena.
(626) 844-0471 (323) 254-2505
www.thirdgenerationco.com
CUSTOM CLOTHING
Custom-made Adorable Baby Clothes
Featuring the Lovbugz Characters
Buy at: www.zazzle.com/lovbugz
ESTATE JEWELRY
JEWELRY (VINTAGE)
Miscellaneous Items
#1-Older Pearl Broche - $9.99
#2-Silver Earrings - $6.99
#3-Silver Spoon - $3.99
#4-Silver Bracelet - $12.99
PUBLIC NOTICES
County of Los
Angeles
Department of the
Treasurer and Tax
Collector
Notice of Divided Publication
Pursuant to Revenue and Taxation
Code (R&TC) Sections 3702, 3381,
and 3382, the Los Angeles County
Treasurer and Tax Collector is
publishing in divided distribution,
the Notice of Sale of Tax-Defaulted
Property Subject to the Tax Collector’s
Power to Sell in and for the County
of Los Angeles, State of California,
to various newspapers of general
circulation published in the County.
A portion of the list appears in each of
such newspapers.
Notice of Public Auction of Tax-
Defaulted Property Subject to the Tax
Collector’s Power to Sell
(Sale No. 2018A)
Whereas, on Tuesday, July 31, 2018,
the Board of Supervisors of the County
of Los Angeles, State of California,
directed me, JOSEPH KELLY,
Treasurer and Tax Collector, to sell at
public auction certain tax-defaulted
properties.
I hereby give public notice, that unless
said properties are redeemed, prior
to the close of business on the last
business day prior to the fi rst day of
the public auction, or Friday, October
19, 2018, at 5:00 p.m. Pacifi c Time,
I will offer for sale and sell said
properties on Monday, October 22,
2018, beginning at 9:00 a.m. Pacifi c
Time, to the highest bidder, for cash
or cashier’s check in lawful money of
the United States, for not less than
the minimum bid, at the Fairplex, Los
Angeles County Fairgrounds, 1101
West McKinley Avenue, Building 7,
Pomona, California. I will re-offer
any properties that did not sell, for a
reduced minimum bid, on Tuesday,
October 23, 2018.
The minimum bid for each parcel is the
total amount necessary to redeem, plus
costs, as required by R&TC Section
3698.5.
If a property does not sell at the
public auction, the right of redemption
will revive and remain until Friday,
November 30, 2018, at 5:00 p.m.
Pacifi c Time.
Beginning Saturday, December 1,
#5-Vintage Turquoise Ring
(his) - $9.99
#6-Vintage Seiko Watch
(hers) - $9.99
#7-Vintage Hummel
Figurine - $69.99
#8-String of Pearls - $24.99
#9-Vintage Cuckoo Clock Black
Forest - $199.99
#10-Vintage German Travel
Clock - $49.99
#11-Vintage Broche
(beautiful) - $4.99
#12-Vintage Gold/F Swank
Cuffl inks - $4.99
#13-Vintage German
Miniature (ceramic) - $9.99
#14-14K Diamond Ring
$99.99
ASK FOR TOMAS
#323-254-2505
12-4PM TUES-SAT
2018, at 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time,
through Tuesday, December 4, 2018, at
10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, I will re-offer
for sale any unimproved properties that
did not sell or were not redeemed prior
to 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time, on Friday,
November 30, 2018, at online auction
at www.bid4assests.com/losangeles.
Prospective bidders should obtain
detailed information of this sale from
the County of Los Angeles Treasurer
and Tax Collector (TTC) at http://ttc.
lacounty.gov/. Bidders are required to
pre-register at 225 North Hill Street,
Room 130, Los Angeles, California
and submit a refundable $5,000
deposit in the form of cash, cashier’s
check or bank-issued money order at
the time of registration. The TTC will
not accept personal checks, two-party
checks or business checks for the
registration deposit. The TTC will apply
the registration deposit towards the
minimum bid. Registration will begin
on Monday, September 17, 2018, at
8:00 a.m. and end on Friday, October
5, 2018, at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time.
Pursuant to R&TC Section 3692.3,
the TTC sells all property ``as is``
and the County and its employees are
not liable for any known or unknown
conditions of the property, including,
but not limited to, errors in the records
of the Office of the Assessor (Assessor)
pertaining to improvement of the
property.
If the TTC sells a property, parties of
interest, as defined by R&TC Section
4675, have a right to file a claim with
the County for any proceeds from the
sale, which are in excess of the liens
and costs required to be paid from
the proceeds. If there are any excess
proceeds after the application of the
minimum bid, the TTC will send notice
to all parties of interest, pursuant to
law.
Please direct requests for information
concerning redemption of taxdefaulted
property to the Treasurer and
Tax Collector, at 225 North Hill Street,
Room 130, Los Angeles, California
90012. You may also call (213) 974-
2045, Monday through Friday, 8:00
a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time, visit
our website at tt.lacounty.gov or email
us at auction@tt.lacounty.gov.
The Assessor’s Identification Number
(AIN) in this publication refers to the
Assessor’s Map Book, the Map Page,
and the individual Parcel Number
on the Map Page. If a change in the
AIN occurred, the publication will
show both prior and current AINs. An
explanation of the parcel numbering
system and the referenced maps are
available at the Office of the Assessor
located at 500 West Temple Street,
Room 225, Los Angeles, California
90012.
I certify under penalty of perjury that
the foregoing is true and correct.
Executed at
Los Angeles, California, on August
24, 2018.
JOSEPH KELLY
Treasurer and Tax Collector
County of Los Angeles
State of California
The real property that is subject to this
notice is situated in the County of Los
Angeles, State of California, and is
described as follows:
PUBLIC AUCTION NOTICE OF SALE
OF TAX-DEFAULTED PROPERTY
SUBJECT TO THE POWER OF SALE
(SALE NO. 2018A)
2214 AIN 5321-014-001 LOH
INVESTMENT LP C/O CUSHMAN &
WAKEFIELD OF SAN D LOCATION
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES $3,690.00
2218 AIN 5329-012-013 CHENG,
PATTY S LOCATION COUNTY OF LOS
ANGELES $165,569.00
2220 AIN 5331-001-001 SERENDIB
HOLDINGS GROUP LLC LOCATION
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
$168,445.00
2444 AIN 5730-002-023 AUSTIN,
WILLIAM A AND CAPURRO, HELEN
DECD EST OF LOCATION COUNTY OF
LOS ANGELES $94,446.00
2445 AIN 5732-002-060 TRINITY
TECH INC LOCATION COUNTY OF
LOS ANGELES $17,570.00
2448 AIN 5748-004-027 YUEN,
ANDREW LOCATION COUNTY OF LOS
ANGELES $197,959.00
2454 AIN 5760-014-013 LOH
INVESTMENT LP C/O CUSHMAN &
WAKEFIELD OF SAN D LOCATION
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES $4,952.00
2455 AIN 5760-014-014 LOH
INVESTMENT LP C/O CUSHMAN &
WAKEFIELD OF SAN D LOCATION
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES $4,953.00
2456 AIN 5760-014-015 LOH
INVESTMENT LP C/O CUSHMAN &
WAKEFIELD OF SAN D LOCATION
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES $2,846.00
2457 AIN 5760-014-021 LOH
INVESTMENT LP C/O CUSHMAN &
WAKEFIELD OF SAN D LOCATION
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES $5,674.00
2458 AIN 5760-014-023 LOH
INVESTMENT LP C/O CUSHMAN &
WAKEFIELD OF SAN D LOCATION
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES $4,952.00
2482 AIN 5831-009-014
PARSEGHIAN, NIGOL AND NATALIE
LOCATION COUNTY OF LOS
ANGELES $3,010.00
2483 AIN 5835-012-018 HERTZ,
MICHAEL LOCATION COUNTY OF
LOS ANGELES $8,106.00
2491 AIN 5838-015-026 RUBALCAVA,
RENEE LOCATION COUNTY OF LOS
ANGELES $37,891.00
2499 AIN 5860-011-021 KINNELOA
INVESTMENTS LLC LOCATION
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
$58,019.00
2500 AIN 5860-038-011 LOH
INVESTMENT LP C/O CUSHMAN &
WAKEFIELD OF SAN D LOCATION
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES $2,930.00
2501 AIN 5863-013-004 PORTER,
HENRY C LOCATION COUNTY OF LOS
ANGELES $15,528.00
3519 AIN 5729-013-014 FRANCHINI,
GLORIA LOCATION COUNTY OF LOS
ANGELES $12,121.00
3520 AIN 5846-024-042 ROPP,DIANE
J LOCATION COUNTY OF LOS
ANGELES $25,688.00
CN953302 503 Sep 20,27, Oct 4,
2018
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR
CHANGE OF NAME Case No.
BS174885
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA,
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. Petition
of VALERIE CARMEN ZUNIGA,
for Change of Name. TO ALL IN-
TERESTED PERSONS: 1.) Petitioner:
Valerie Carmen Zuniga fi led a petition
with this court for a decree changing
names as follows: a.) Valerie Carmen
Zuniga to Valerie Carmen Krause 2.)
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons
interested in this matter appear before
this court at the hearing indicated
below to show cause, if any, why the
petition for change of name should
not be granted. Any person objecting
to the name changes described above
must fi le a written objection that includes
the reasons for the objection at
least two court days before the matter
is scheduled to be heard and must appear
at the hearing to show cause why
the petition should not be granted. If
no written objection is timely fi led, the
court may grant the petition without a
hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date:
10/23/18. Time: 10:30 AM. Dept.: 44
Room: 418. The address of the court
is 111 N. Hill Street Los Angeles, CA
90012. A copy of this Order to Show
Cause shall be published at least once
each week for four successive weeks
prior to the date set for hearing on the
petition in the following newspaper
of general circulation, printed in this
county: Pasadena Weekly. Original
fi led: August 22, 2018. Judge Edward
B. Moreton Jr, Judge of the Superior
Court. PUBLISH: Pasadena Weekly
8/30/18, 9/6/18, 9/13/18, 9/20/18
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR
CHANGE OF NAME Case No.
ES021535
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA,
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. Petition
of FRANCISCO ANDRES JOSE
OLVERA-SANCHEZ, for Change of
Name. TO ALL INTERESTED PER-
SONS: 1.) Petitioner: Francisco
Andres Jose Olvera-Sanchez fi led a
petition with this court for a decree
changing names as follows: a.) Francisco
Andres Jose Olvera-Sanchez to
Francisco Andres Sanchez 2.) THE
COURT ORDERS that all persons interested
in this matter appear before
this court at the hearing indicated
below to show cause, if any, why the
petition for change of name should
not be granted. Any person objecting
to the name changes described above
must fi le a written objection that includes
the reasons for the objection at
least two court days before the matter
is scheduled to be heard and must appear
at the hearing to show cause why
the petition should not be granted. If
no written objection is timely fi led, the
court may grant the petition without a
hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date:
11/01/2018. Time: 8:30 AM. Dept.:
NCG-E. The address of the court is
600 East Broadway Glendale, CA
91206. A copy of this Order to Show
Cause shall be published at least
once each week for four successive
weeks prior to the date set for hearing
on the petition in the following newspaper
of general circulation, printed
in this county: Pasadena Weekly.
Original fi led: September 4, 2018.
Darrell Mavis, Judge of the Superior
Court. PUBLISH: Pasadena Weekly
9/6/18, 9/13/18, 9/20/18, 9/27/18
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR
CHANGE OF NAME Case No.
ES021336 AMENDED
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFOR-
NIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES.
Petition of COURTNEY LAPAUL
WILLIAMS, for Change of Name.
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
1.) Petitioner: Courtney LaPaul Williams
fi led a petition with this court
for a decree changing names as follows:
a.) Courtney LaPaul Williams
to Major Williams 2.) THE COURT
ORDERS that all persons interested
in this matter appear before this
court at the hearing indicated below
to show cause, if any, why the petition
for change of name should not be
granted. Any person objecting to the
name changes described above must
fi le a written objection that includes
the reasons for the objection at least
two court days before the matter is
scheduled to be heard and must appear
at the hearing to show cause why
the petition should not be granted. If
no written objection is timely fi led, the
court may grant the petition without a
hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date:
10/03/2018. Time: 8:30 AM. Dept.:
D. The address of the court is 600
East Broadway Glendale, CA 91206.
A copy of this Order to Show Cause
shall be published at least once each
week for four successive weeks prior
to the date set for hearing on the petition
in the following newspaper of
general circulation, printed in this
county: Pasadena Weekly. Original
fi led: August 8, 2018. Darrell Mavis,
Judge of the Superior Court.
PUBLISH: Pasadena Weekly 9/6/18,
9/13/18, 9/20/18, 9/27/18
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR
CHANGE OF NAME Case No.
BS175105
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA,
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. Petition
of NOEMY KRYSTINA MENDOZA,
for Change of Name. TO ALL INTER-
ESTED PERSONS: 1.) Petitioner: Noemy
Krystina Mendoza fi led a petition
with this court for a decree changing
names as follows: a.) Noemy Krystina
Mendoza to Noemy Mendoza 2.) THE
COURT ORDERS that all persons interested
in this matter appear before
this court at the hearing indicated
below to show cause, if any, why the
petition for change of name should
not be granted. Any person objecting
to the name changes described above
must fi le a written objection that includes
the reasons for the objection at
least two court days before the matter
is scheduled to be heard and must appear
at the hearing to show cause why
the petition should not be granted. If
no written objection is timely fi led, the
court may grant the petition without a
hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date:
11/13/2018. Time: 10:30 AM. Dept.:
44. ROOM: 418. The address of the
court is 111 N. Hill St. Los Angeles,
CA 90012. A copy of this Order to
Show Cause shall be published at
least once each week for four successive
weeks prior to the date set
for hearing on the petition in the following
newspaper of general circulation,
printed in this county: Pasadena
Weekly. Original fi led: September 10,
2018. Judge Edward B. Morteton, Jr.,
Judge of the Superior Court. PUB-
LISH: Pasadena Weekly 9/13/18,
9/20/18, 9/27/18, 10/4/18
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR
CHANGE OF NAME Case No.
ES021551
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA,
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. Petition
of REBECCA SUSAN FOSTER STILL,
for Change of Name. TO ALL INTER-
ESTED PERSONS: 1.) Petitioner:
Rebecca Susan Foster Still fi led a
petition with this court for a decree
changing names as follows: a.) Foster
Still, Rebecca Susan (surname is
Foster Still) to Still, Rebecca Foster
(middle name: Foster, surname: Still)
b.) Foster-Still, Rebeca to Still, Rebecca
Foster c.) Still, Rebecca Susan
Foster to Still, Rebecca Foster 2.) THE
COURT ORDERS that all persons interested
in this matter appear before
this court at the hearing indicated
below to show cause, if any, why the
petition for change of name should
not be granted. Any person objecting
to the name changes described above
must fi le a written objection that includes
the reasons for the objection at
least two court days before the matter
is scheduled to be heard and must appear
at the hearing to show cause why
the petition should not be granted. If
no written objection is timely fi led, the
court may grant the petition without a
hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date:
10/30/2018. Time: 8:30 AM. Dept.:
E. The address of the court is 600
East Broadway Glendale, CA 91206.
A copy of this Order to Show Cause
shall be published at least once each
week for four successive weeks prior
to the date set for hearing on the petition
in the following newspaper of
general circulation, printed in this
county: Pasadena Weekly. Original
fi led: September 11, 2018. Darrell
Mavis, Judge of the Superior Court.
PUBLISH: Pasadena Weekly 9/13/18,
9/20/18, 9/27/18, 10/4/18
BULK SALES NOTICES
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE
Pursuant to Sections 21700-21716 of
Calif. Business & Professions Code
SPACE BANK MINI STORAGE will
sell at public auction 10:00am on
Tuesday, September 25, 2018 at 3202
Foothill Blvd, Pasadena, CA the following
personal property:
Butler, L (31-1070h) Albums, clothes,
pictures, misc.
Joseph, P (S-18) Boxes, furniture,
misc.
Leiren, R (C-77) Boxes, misc household
Leiren, R (K-255) Boxes, audio equip,
sports equip
McWilliams, L (31-1052b) Boxes,
tubs, misc household
McWilliams, L (10-22) Boxes, misc
household
McWilliams, L (F-150) Boxes, furniture
Norment, W (H-7) Boxes, bags, furniture
Ortega, L.A. (31-2065) Furniture
frames, upholstered furniture, pillows,
misc
Professional Technology (F-148)
Janitorial equip & products, boxes,
misc.
Ringgold, J (L-92) Plastic tubs, misc
Stengel, M.D. (V-4) Computer equip,
tools, clothes, CD’s
Wright, T (K-288) Furniture, boxes,
luggage
All sales are subject to prior cancellation.
Sale terms, rules & regulations
available at time of sale.
Published: 9/13/18, 9/20/18
Pasadena Weekly
PROBATE NOTICES
NOTICE OF PETITION TO
ADMINISTER ESTATE OF
CHARLOTTE D. HARDY aka
CHARLOTTE HARDY
Case No. 18STPB07934
To all heirs, benefi ciaries, creditors,
contingent creditors, and persons
who may otherwise be interested in
the will or estate, or both, of CHAR-
LOTTE D. HARDY aka CHARLOTTE
HARDY
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been
fi led by Christine Hardy Sudell in the
Superior Court of California, County
of LOS ANGELES.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests
that Christine Hardy Sudell
be appointed as personal representative
to administer the estate of the
decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s
will and codicils, if any, be
admitted to probate. The will and any
codicils are available for examination
in the fi le kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority
to administer the estate under
the Independent Administration of
Estates Act. (This authority will allow
the personal representative to
take many actions without obtaining
court approval. Before taking certain
very important actions, however,
the personal representative will be
required to give notice to interested
persons unless they have waived
notice or consented to the proposed
action.) The independent administration
authority will be granted unless
an interested person fi les an objection
to the petition and shows good
cause why the court should not grant
the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be
held on Sept. 25, 2018 at 8:30 AM in
Dept. No. 29 located at 111 N. Hill St.,
Los Angeles, CA 90012.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of
the petition, you should appear at the
hearing and state your objections or
fi le written objections with the court
before the hearing. Your appearance
may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent
creditor of the decedent, you
must fi le your claim with the court and
mail a copy to the personal representative
appointed by the court within
the later of either (1) four months from
the date of fi rst issuance of letters to
a general personal representative, as
defi ned in section 58(b) of the California
Probate Code, or (2) 60 days
from the date of mailing or personal
delivery to you of a notice under section
9052 of the California Probate
Code.
Other California statutes and legal
authority may affect your rights as
a creditor. You may want to consult
with an attorney knowledgeable in
California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the fi le kept
by the court. If you are a person interested
in the estate, you may fi le
with the court a Request for Special
Notice (form DE-154) of the fi ling of
an inventory and appraisal of estate
assets or of any petition or account
as provided in Probate Code section
1250. A Request for Special Notice
form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for petitioner:
JACQUELINE D YU ESQ
SBN 254389
KARLIN & PEEBLES LLP
5900 WILSHIRE BLVD
STE 500
LOS ANGELES CA 90036
CN953071 HARDY Sep 6,13,20, 2018
NOTICE OF PETITION TO AD-
MINISTER ESTATE OF LOUISE
FITZPATRICK McNAIR
Case No. 18STPB08020
To all heirs, benefi ciaries, creditors,
contingent creditors, and persons
who may otherwise be interested in
the will or estate, or both, of LOUISE
FITZPATRICK McNAIR
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been
fi led by Benjamin Fitzpatrick McNair
in the Superior Court of California,
County of LOS ANGELES.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests
that Benjamin Fitzpatrick
McNair be appointed as personal representative
to administer the estate of
the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s
will and codicils, if any, be
admitted to probate. The will and any
codicils are available for examination
in the fi le kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority
to administer the estate under
the Independent Administration of
Estates Act. (This authority will allow
the personal representative to
take many actions without obtaining
court approval. Before taking certain
very important actions, however,
the personal representative will be
required to give notice to interested
persons unless they have waived
notice or consented to the proposed
action.) The independent administration
authority will be granted unless
an interested person fi les an objection
to the petition and shows good
cause why the court should not grant
the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be
held on Sept. 26, 2018 at 8:30 AM in
Dept. No. 2D located at 111 N. Hill St.,
Los Angeles, CA 90012.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of
the petition, you should appear at the
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hearing and state your objections or
fi le written objections with the court
before the hearing. Your appearance
may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent
creditor of the decedent, you
must fi le your claim with the court and
mail a copy to the personal representative
appointed by the court within
the later of either (1) four months from
the date of fi rst issuance of letters to
a general personal representative, as
defi ned in section 58(b) of the California
Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from
the date of mailing or personal delivery
to you of a notice under section
9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal
authority may affect your rights as
a creditor. You may want to consult
with an attorney knowledgeable in
California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the fi le kept by
the court. If you are a person interested
in the estate, you may fi le with
the court a Request for Special Notice
(form DE-154) of the fi ling of an inventory
and appraisal of estate assets
or of any petition or account as provided
in Probate Code section 1250.
A Request for Special Notice form is
available from the court clerk.
Attorney for petitioner:
WILLIAM K SWEENEY ESQ
SBN 51670
LAW OFFICE OF
WILLIAM K SWEENEY
32371 ALIPAZ ST NO 29
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO CA 92675
CN953073 MCNAIR Sep 6,13,20,
2018
TRUSTEE SALES
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS
No. CA-13-600082-JP Order No.:
130219415-CA-MAI YOU ARE IN
DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST
DATED 8/31/2005. UNLESS YOU
TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR
PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A
PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EX-
PLANATION 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 specifi
ed 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 covenant or warranty, 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 note(s), advances,
under 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 initial publication
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): DAVID L
SIEVING, A SINGLE MAN Recorded:
9/12/2005 as Instrument No. 05
2187468 of Offi cial Records in the
offi ce of the Recorder of LOS ANGE-
LES County, California; Date of Sale:
9/27/2018 at 10:00 AM Place of Sale:
Behind the fountain located in Civic
Center Plaza, located at 400 Civic
Center Plaza, Pomona CA 91766
Amount of unpaid balance and other
charges: $518,902.36 The purported
property address is: 339 S CATALINA
AVE #125, PASADENA, CA 91106
Assessor’s Parcel No.: 5735-029-
093 Legal Description: Please be
advised that the legal description set
forth on the Deed of Trust is in error.
The legal description of the property
secured by the Deed of Trust is more
properly set forth and made part of
Exhibit “A” as attached hereto. A
CONDOMINIUM COMPRISED OF:
PARCEL I: AN UNDIVIDED 1/120THS
INTEREST IN LOT 1 OF TRACT NO.
38229, IN THE CITY OF PASADENA,
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, STATE
OF CALIFORNIA, AS PER MAP RE-
CORDED IN BOOK 969 PAGES 97
AND 98 OF MAPS, IN THE OFFICE OF
THE COUNTY RECORDER OF SAID
COUNTY. EXCEPT UNITS 101 TO
140 INCLUSIVE, 201 TO 240 INCLU-
SIVE AND 301 TO 340 INCLUSIVE
AS SHOWN AND DEFINED ON THE
CONDOMINIUM PLAN RECORDED
APRIL 2, 1981 AS INSTRUMENT NO.
81-333220 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS
OF SAID COUNTY. PARCEL 2: UNIT
125 AS SHOWN AND DEFINED ON
THE CONDOMINIUM PLAN ABOVE
MENTIONED. NOTICE TO POTEN-
TIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering
bidding on this property lien,
you should understand that there are
risks involved in bidding at a trustee
auction. You will be bidding on a lien,
not on the property itself. Placing the
highest bid at a trustee auction does
not automatically entitle you to free
and clear ownership of the property.
You should also be aware that the lien
being auctioned off may be a junior
lien. If you are the highest bidder at
the auction, you are or may be responsible
for paying off all liens senior to
the lien being auctioned off, before
you can receive clear title to the property.
You are encouraged to investigate
the existence, priority, and size
of outstanding liens that may exist on
this property by contacting the county
recorder’s offi ce or a title insurance
company, either of which may charge
you a fee for this information. If you
consult either of these resources, you
should be aware that the same lender
may hold more than one mortgage or
deed of trust on the property. NOTICE
TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date
shown on this notice of sale may be
postponed one or more times by the
mortgagee, benefi ciary, trustee, or
a court, pursuant to Section 2924g
of the California Civil Code. The
law requires that information about
trustee sale postponements be made
available to you and to the public, as
a courtesy to those not present at the
sale. If you wish to learn whether your
sale date has been postponed, and, if
applicable, the rescheduled time and
date for the sale of this property, you
may call 916-939-0772 for information
regarding the trustee’s sale or
visit this Internet Web site http://
www.qualityloan.com, using the fi le
number assigned to this foreclosure
by the Trustee: CA-13-600082-JP.
Information about postponements
that are very short in duration or that
occur close in time to the scheduled
sale may not immediately be refl ected
in the telephone information or on the
Internet Web site. The best way to
verify postponement information is to
attend the scheduled sale. The undersigned
Trustee disclaims any liability
for any incorrectness of the property
address or other common designation,
if any, shown herein. If no street
address or other common designation
is shown, directions to the location
of the property may be obtained by
sending a written request to the benefi
ciary within 10 days of the date of
fi rst publication of this Notice of Sale.
If the sale is set aside for any reason,
including if the Trustee is unable to
convey title, the Purchaser at the sale
shall be entitled only to a return of the
monies paid to the Trustee. This shall
be the Purchaser’s sole and exclusive
remedy. The purchaser shall have no
further recourse against the Trustor,
the Trustee, the Benefi ciary, the Benefi
ciary’s Agent, or the Benefi ciary’s
Attorney. 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 holders right’s against the real
property only. Date: Quality Loan
Service Corporation 2763 Camino
Del Rio South San Diego, CA 92108
619-645-7711 For NON SALE information
only Sale Line: 916-939-0772
Or Login to: http://www.qualityloan.
com Reinstatement Line: (866) 645-
7711 Ext 5318 Quality Loan Service
Corp. TS No.: CA-13-600082-JP ID-
SPub #0144546 9/6/2018 9/13/2018
9/20/2018
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE 2763
Camino Del Rio South San Diego,
CA 92108 TS No. CA-18-826574-JB
Order No. : 8734454 YOU ARE IN
DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST
DATED 9/28/2012. UNLESS YOU
TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR
PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A
PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EX-
PLANATION 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 specifi
ed 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 covenant or warranty, 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 note(s), advances,
under 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 initial
publication 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):
KEVIN PATRICK AUSTIN, TRUSTEE
OF THE KEVIN PATRICK AUSTIN RE-
VOCABLE TRUST DATED OCTOBER
10, 2011. Recorded: 10/2/2012 as Instrument
No. 20121479097 of Offi cial
Records in the offi ce of the Recorder
of LOS ANGELES County, California;
Date of Sale: 10/11/2018 at 9:00 AM
Place of Sale: At the Doubletree Hotel
Los Angeles-Norwalk, 13111 Sycamore
Drive, Norwalk, CA 90650, in
the Vineyard Ballroom Amount of
unpaid balance and other charges:
$391,015.14 The purported property
address is: 1993 ROOSEVELT
AVENUE, ALTADENA, CA 91001 Assessor’s
Parcel No.: 5854-006-012
NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS:
If you are considering bidding on
this property lien, you should understand
that there are risks involved
in bidding at a trustee auction. You
will be bidding on a lien, not on the
property itself. Placing the highest
bid at a trustee auction does not automatically
entitle you to free and clear
ownership of the property. You should
also be aware that the lien being auctioned
off may be a junior lien. If you
are the highest bidder at the auction,
you are or may be responsible for
paying off all liens senior to the lien
being auctioned off, before you can
receive clear title to the property.
You are encouraged to investigate
the existence, priority, and size of
outstanding liens that may exist on
this property by contacting the county
recorder’s offi ce or a title insurance
company, either of which may charge
you a fee for this information. If you
consult either of these resources, you
should be aware that the same lender
may hold more than one mortgage or
deed of trust on the property. NOTICE
TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date
shown on this notice of sale may be
postponed one or more times by the
mortgagee, benefi ciary, trustee, or
a court, pursuant to Section 2924g
of the California Civil Code. The
law requires that information about
trustee sale postponements be made
available to you and to the public, as
a courtesy to those not present at the
sale. If you wish to learn whether your
sale date has been postponed, and, if
applicable, the rescheduled time and
date for the sale of this property, you
may call 800-280-2832 for information
regarding the trustee’s sale or
visit this Internet Web site http://
www.qualityloan.com, using the fi le
number assigned to this foreclosure
by the Trustee: CA-18-826574-JB.
Information about postponements
that are very short in duration or that
occur close in time to the scheduled
sale may not immediately be refl ected
in the telephone information or on the
Internet Web site. The best way to
verify postponement information is to
attend the scheduled sale. The undersigned
Trustee disclaims any liability
for any incorrectness of the property
address or other common designation,
if any, shown herein. If no street
address or other common designation
is shown, directions to the location
of the property may be obtained by
sending a written request to the benefi
ciary within 10 days of the date of
fi rst publication of this Notice of Sale.
If the sale is set aside for any reason,
including if the Trustee is unable to
convey title, the Purchaser at the sale
shall be entitled only to a return of the
monies paid to the Trustee. This shall
be the Purchaser’s sole and exclusive
remedy. The purchaser shall have no
further recourse against the Trustor,
the Trustee, the Benefi ciary, the Benefi
ciary’s Agent, or the Benefi ciary’s
Attorney. 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
holders right’s against the real property
only. Date: Quality Loan Service
Corporation 2763 Camino Del Rio
South San Diego, CA 92108 619-
645-7711 For NON SALE information
only Sale Line: 800-280-2832 Or
Login to: http://www.qualityloan.com
Reinstatement Line: (866) 645-7711
Ext 5318 Quality Loan Service Corp.
TS No.: CA-18-826574-JB IDSPub
#0144563 9/13/2018 9/20/2018
9/27/2018
TSG No.: 8712146 TS No.:
CA1700281209 FHA/VA/PMI No.:
APN: 5829-016-027 Property Address:
3016 CALANDA AVE AL-
TADENA, CA 91001 NOTICE OF
TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DE-
FAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST,
DATED 02/21/2014. 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 10/16/2018 at 10:00
A.M., First American Title Insurance
Company, as duly appointed Trustee
under and pursuant to Deed of Trust
recorded 02/27/2014, as Instrument
No. 20140203244, in book , page , ,
of Offi cial Records in the offi ce of the
County Recorder of LOS ANGELES
County, State of California. Executed
by: JULIUS JOHNSON, AN UNMAR-
RIED MAN, 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) Behind the fountain
located in Civic Center Plaza,
400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona CA
91766 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# 5829-016-027 The
street address and other common
designation, if any, of the real property
described above is purported to
be: 3016 CALANDA AVE, ALTADENA,
CA 91001 The undersigned Trustee
disclaims any liability for any incorrectness
of the street address and
other common designation, if any,
shown herein. Said sale will be made,
but without covenant or warranty,
expressed 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, 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
$328,752.01. The benefi ciary under
said Deed of Trust has deposited all
documents evidencing the obligations
secured by the Deed of Trust and
has declared all sums secured thereby
immediately due and payable, and
has caused a written Notice of Default
and Election to Sell to be executed.
The undersigned caused said Notice
of Default and Election to Sell to be
recorded in the County where the
real property is located. NOTICE TO
POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering
bidding on this property lien,
you should understand that there are
risks involved in bidding at a trustee
auction. You will be bidding on a lien,
not on the property itself. Placing the
highest bid at a trustee auction does
not automatically entitle you to free
and clear ownership of the property.
You should also be aware that the lien
being auctioned off may be a junior
lien. If you are the highest bidder at
the auction, you are or may be responsible
for paying off all liens senior to
the lien being auctioned off, before
you can receive clear title to the property.
You are encouraged to investigate
the existence, priority, and size
of outstanding liens that may exist on
this property by contacting the county
recorder’s offi ce or a title insurance
company, either of which may charge
you a fee for this information. If you
consult either of these resources, you
should be aware that the same lender
may hold more than one mortgage or
deed of trust on the property. NOTICE
TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date
shown on this notice of sale may be
postponed one or more times by the
mortgagee, benefi ciary, trustee, or
a court, pursuant to Section 2924g
of the California Civil Code. The
law requires that information about
trustee sale postponements be made
available to you and to the public, as
a courtesy to those not present at the
sale. If you wish to learn whether your
sale date has been postponed, and if
applicable, the rescheduled time and
date for the sale of this property, you
may call (916)939-0772 or visit this
Internet Web http://search.nation-
wideposting.com/propertySearch-
Terms.aspx, using the fi le number
assigned to this case CA1700281209
Information about postponements
that are very short in duration or that
occur close in time to the scheduled
sale may not immediately be refl ected
in the telephone information or on the
Internet Web site. The best way to
verify postponement information is
to attend the scheduled sale. 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: First American Title
Insurance Company 4795 Regent
Blvd, Mail Code 1011-F Irving, TX
75063 First American Title Insurance
Company MAY BE ACTING AS A
DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO
COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMA-
TION OBTAINED MAY BE USED FOR
THAT PURPOSE FOR TRUSTEES
SALE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL
(916)939-0772 NPP0339523 To:
PASADENA WEEKLY 09/13/2018,
09/20/2018, 09/27/2018
T.S. No.: 9987-7495
TSG Order
No.: 8737205 A.P.N.: 5759-034-002
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE PUR-
SUANT TO CIVIL CODE ß 2923.3(a),
THE SUMMARY OF INFORMATION
REFERRED TO BELOW IS NOT AT-
TACHED TO THE RECORDED COPY
OF THIS DOCUMENT BUT ONLY
TO THE COPIES PROVIDED TO THE
TRUSTOR. YOU ARE IN DEFAULT
UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED
07/07/2014. UNLESS YOU TAKE
ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROP-
ERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC
SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANA-
TION OF THE NATURE OF THE
PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU
SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. Affi
nia Default Services, LLC, as the
duly appointed Trustee, under and
pursuant to the power of sale contained
in that certain Deed of Trust Recorded
07/14/2014 as Document No.:
20140722241, of Offi cial Records in
the offi ce of the Recorder of Los Angeles
County, California, executed by:
MARY DER PARSEGHIAN, A SINGLE
WOMAN, as Trustor, WILL SELL AT
PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST
BIDDER FOR CASH (payable in full at
time of sale by cash, a cashier’s check
drawn by a state or national bank, a
check drawn by a state or federal
credit union, or a check drawn by a
state or federal savings and loan association,
savings association, or
savings bank specifi ed in section
5102 of the Financial Code and authorized
to do business in this state).
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, and as more fully
described in the above referenced
Deed of Trust. Sale Date & Time:
10/11/2018 at 09:00 AM Sale Location:
Doubletree Hotel Los Angeles-
Norwalk, Vineyard Ballroom, 13111
Sycamore Drive, Norwalk, CA 90650
The street address and other common
designation, if any, of the real property
described above is purported to
be: 3805 RANCH TOP ROAD, PASA-
DENA, CA 91107 The undersigned
Trustee disclaims any liability for
any incorrectness of the street address
and other common designation,
if any, shown herein. Said sale
will be made in an ìAS ISî condition,
but without covenant or warranty,
expressed 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
Trust, estimated fees, charges and
expenses of the Trustee and of
the trusts created by said Deed of
Trust, to-wit: $616,321.97 (Estimated)
as of 09/27/2018. Accrued interest
and additional advances, if any,
will increase this fi gure prior to sale.
It is possible that at the time of sale
the opening bid may be less than the
total indebtedness due. NOTICE TO
POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering
bidding on this property lien,
you should understand that there are
risks involved in bidding at a trustee
auction. You will be bidding on a lien,
not on the property itself. Placing the
highest bid at a trustee auction does
not automatically entitle you to free
and clear ownership of the property.
You should also be aware that the lien
being auctioned off may be a junior
lien. If you are the highest bidder at
the auction, you are or may be responsible
for paying off all liens senior
to the lien being auctioned off, before
you can receive clear title to the property.
You are encouraged to investigate
the existence, priority, and size
of outstanding liens that may exist on
this property by contacting the county
recorder’s offi ce or a title insurance
company, either of which may charge
you a fee for this information. If you
consult either of these resources, you
should be aware that the same lender
may hold more than one mortgage or
deed of trust on the property. NOTICE
TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date
shown on this notice of sale may be
postponed one or more times by the
mortgagee, benefi ciary, trustee, or
a court, pursuant to Section 2924g
of the California Civil Code. The
law requires that information about
trustee sale postponements be made
available to you and to the public, as
a courtesy to those not present at the
sale. If you wish to learn whether your
sale date has been postponed, and,
if applicable, the rescheduled time
and date for the sale of this property,
you may call, 1-800-280-2832 for
information regarding the trustee’s
sale or visit this Internet Web site,
www.auction.com, for information
regarding the sale of this property,
using the fi le number assigned to this
case, T.S.# 9987-7495. Information
about postponements that are very
short in duration or that occur close
in time to the scheduled sale may
not immediately be refl ected in the
telephone information or on the
internet Web site. The best way
to verify postponement information
is to attend the scheduled 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.
Affi nia Default Services, LLC 301 E.
Ocean Blvd. Suite 1720 Long Beach,
CA 90802 833-290-7452 For Trustee
Sale Information Log On To: www.
auction.com or Call: 1-800-280-
2832. Affi nia Default Services, LLC,
Jorge Torres, Foreclosure Associate
This communication is an attempt
to collect a debt and any information
obtained will be used for that purpose.
However, if you have received a discharge
of the debt referenced herein
in a bankruptcy proceeding, this is
not an attempt to impose personal
liability upon you for payment of that
debt. In the event you have received
a bankruptcy discharge, any action to
enforce the debt will be taken against
the property only. NPP0339698 To:
PASADENA WEEKLY 09/20/2018,
09/27/2018, 10/04/2018
T.S. No. 15-0518-11 NOTICE OF
TRUSTEE’S SALE NOTE: THERE IS
A SUMMARY OF THE INFORMATION
IN THIS DOCUMENT ATTACHED
NOTA: SE ADJUNTA UN RESUMEN
DE LA INFORMACIÓN DE ESTE
DOCUMENTO
TALA: MAYROONG BUOD NG IM-
PORMASYON SA DOKUMENTONG
ITO NA NAKALAKIP
PLEASE NOTE THAT PURSUANT
TO CIVIL CODE ß 2923.3(d)(1) THE
ABOVE STATEMENT IS REQUIRED
TO APPEAR ON THIS DOCUMENT
BUT PURSUANT TO CIVIL CODE
ß 2923.3(a) THE SUMMARY OF
INFORMATION IS NOT REQUIRED
TO BE RECORDED OR PUBLISHED
AND THE SUMMARY OF INFORMA-
TION NEED ONLY BE MAILED TO
THE MORTGAGOR OR TRUSTOR.
YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A
DEED OF TRUST DATED 6/14/2007.
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 CON-
TACT 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 a state
or federal credit union, or a check
drawn by a state or federal savings
and loan association, or savings
association, or savings bank specifi
ed in Section 5102 of the Financial
Code and authorized to do business
in this state 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 a Deed of Trust described
below. The sale will be made,
but without covenant or warranty,
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 note(s), advances,
under 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 initial
publication of the Notice of Sale)
reasonably estimated to be set forth
below. The amount may be greater
on the day of sale. Trustor: ABDUL
JAMI MUHAMMAD AND REGINA
CAROLYN GRIMES, HUSBAND AND
WIFE AS JOINT TENANTS Duly Appointed
Trustee: The Wolf Firm, A Law
Corporation Recorded 6/22/2007
as Instrument No. 20071503217 of
Offi cial Records in the offi ce of the
Recorder of Los Angeles County,
California, Street Address or other
common designation of real property:
210 HIGHLAWN PLACE ALTADENA,
CA 91001 A.P.N.: 5835-042-035
Date of Sale: 10/16/2018 at 10:00 AM
Place of Sale: Behind the fountain located
in Civic Center Plaza, 400 Civic
Center Plaza, Pomona CA 91766
Amount of unpaid balance and other
charges: $749,031.58, estimated
The undersigned Trustee disclaims
any liability for any incorrectness of
the street address or other common
designation, if any, shown above. If
no street address or other common
designation is shown, directions to
the location of the property may be
obtained by sending a written request
to the benefi ciary within 10 days of the
date of fi rst publication of this Notice
of Sale. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BID-
DERS: If you are considering bidding
on this property lien, you should understand
that there are risks involved
in bidding at a trustee auction. You
will be bidding on a lien, not on the
property itself. Placing the highest
bid at a trustee auction does not automatically
entitle you to free and clear
ownership of the property. You should
also be aware that the lien being auctioned
off may be a junior lien. If you
are the highest bidder at the auction,
you are or may be responsible for
paying off all liens senior to the lien
being auctioned off, before you can
receive clear title to the property.
You are encouraged to investigate
the existence, priority, and size of
outstanding liens that may exist on
this property by contacting the county
recorder’s offi ce or a title insurance
company, either of which may charge
you a fee for this information. If you
consult either of these resources, you
should be aware that the same lender
may hold more than one mortgage or
deed of trust on the property. NOTICE
TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date
shown on this notice of sale may be
postponed one or more times by the
mortgagee, benefi ciary, trustee, or
a court, pursuant to Section 2924g
of the California Civil Code. The
law requires that information about
trustee sale postponements be made
available to you and to the public, as
a courtesy to those not present at the
sale. If you wish to learn whether your
sale date has been postponed, and, if
applicable, the rescheduled time and
date for the sale of this property, you
may call 916-939-0772 or visit this
Internet Web site www.nationwideposting.com,
using the fi le number
assigned to this case 15-0518-11.
Information about postponements
that are very short in duration or that
occur close in time to the scheduled
sale may not immediately be refl ected
in the telephone information or on
the Internet Web site. The best way
to verify postponement information
is to attend the scheduled sale. Date:
9/12/2018 The Wolf Firm, A Law Corporation
2955 Main Street, 2nd Floor
Irvine, California 92614 Foreclosure
Department (949) 720-9200 Sale Information
Only: 916-939-0772 www.
nationwideposting.com Sindy Clements,
Foreclosure Offi cer PLEASE
BE ADVISED THAT THE WOLF FIRM

09.20.18 PASADENA WEEKLY 31
MAY BE ACTING AS A DEBT COL-
LECTOR, ATTEMPTING TO COL-
LECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION
YOU PROVIDE MAY BE USED FOR
THAT PURPOSE. NPP0340303 To:
PASADENA WEEKLY 09/20/2018,
09/27/2018, 10/04/2018
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS
No. CA-14-650064-RY Order No.:
VTSG1156278 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT
UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED
7/8/2005. UNLESS YOU TAKE AC-
TION 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 CON-
TACT 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 specifi ed 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 covenant
or warranty, 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 note(s), advances, under 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 initial publication 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): STEVEN MITCH-
ELL AND NICOLE ROSS-MITCHELL,
HUSBAND AND WIFE, AS JOINT
TENANTS Recorded: 7/20/2005 as
Instrument No. 05 1706628 of Offi cial
Records in the offi ce of the Recorder
of LOS ANGELES County, California;
Date of Sale: 11 /6 /2018 at 10:00 AM
Place of Sale: Behind the fountain
located in Civic Center Plaza, located
at 400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona
CA 91766 Amount of unpaid balance
and other charges: $756,378.74 The
purported property address is: 2361
NORTH ARROYO BOULEVARD, PAS-
ADENA, CA 91103 Assessor’s Parcel
No.: 5823-030-011 5823-030-017
Legal Description: Please be advised
that the legal description set forth on
the Deed of Trust is in error. The legal
description of the property secured by
the Deed of Trust is more properly set
forth and made part of Exhibit “A” as
attached hereto. PARCEL 1: LOT 10
OF TRACT NO. 25707, IN THE CITY
OF PASADENA, COUNTY OF LOS
ANGELES, STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
AS PER MAP RECORDED IN BOOK
782, PAGE(S) 16 OF MAPS, IN THE
OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORD-
ER OF SAID COUNTY. PARCEL 2:
AN UNDIVIDED 1/15TH INTEREST
IN LOT 16 OF TRACT 25707, IN THE
CITY OF PASADENA, COUNTY OF
LOS ANGELES, STATE OF CALI-
FORNIA AS PER MAP RECORDED
IN BOOK 782, PAGE 16 OF MAPS,
IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RE-
CORDER OF SAID COUNTY. NOTICE
TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are
considering bidding on this property
lien, you should understand that
there are risks involved in bidding at
a trustee auction. You will be bidding
on a lien, not on the property itself.
Placing the highest bid at a trustee
auction does not automatically entitle
you to free and clear ownership of the
property. You should also be aware
that the lien being auctioned off may
be a junior lien. If you are the highest
bidder at the auction, you are or may
be responsible for paying off all liens
senior to the lien being auctioned off,
before you can receive clear title to
the property. You are encouraged to
investigate the existence, priority,
and size of outstanding liens that may
exist on this property by contacting
the county recorder’s offi ce or
a title insurance company, either of
which may charge you a fee for this
information. If you consult either
of these resources, you should be
aware that the same lender may hold
more than one mortgage or deed of
trust on the property. NOTICE TO
PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date
shown on this notice of sale may be
postponed one or more times by the
mortgagee, benefi ciary, trustee, or
a court, pursuant to Section 2924g
of the California Civil Code. The
law requires that information about
trustee sale postponements be made
available to you and to the public, as
a courtesy to those not present at the
sale. If you wish to learn whether your
sale date has been postponed, and, if
applicable, the rescheduled time and
date for the sale of this property, you
may call 916-939-0772 for information
regarding the trustee’s sale or
visit this Internet Web site http://
www.qualityloan.com, using the fi le
number assigned to this foreclosure
by the Trustee: CA-14-650064-RY.
Information about postponements
that are very short in duration or that
occur close in time to the scheduled
sale may not immediately be refl ected
in the telephone information or on the
Internet Web site. The best way to
verify postponement information is to
attend the scheduled sale. The undersigned
Trustee disclaims any liability
for any incorrectness of the property
address or other common designation,
if any, shown herein. If no street
address or other common designation
is shown, directions to the location
of the property may be obtained by
sending a written request to the benefi
ciary within 10 days of the date of
fi rst publication of this Notice of Sale.
If the sale is set aside for any reason,
including if the Trustee is unable to
convey title, the Purchaser at the sale
shall be entitled only to a return of the
monies paid to the Trustee. This shall
be the Purchaser’s sole and exclusive
remedy. The purchaser shall have no
further recourse against the Trustor,
the Trustee, the Benefi ciary, the Benefi
ciary’s Agent, or the Benefi ciary’s
Attorney. 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
holders right’s against the real property
only. Date: Quality Loan Service
Corporation 2763 Camino Del Rio
South San Diego, CA 92108 619-
645-7711 For NON SALE information
only Sale Line: 916-939-0772 Or
Login to: http://www.qualityloan.com
Reinstatement Line: (866) 645-7711
Ext 5318 Quality Loan Service Corp.
TS No.: CA-14-650064-RY IDSPub
#0145074 9/20/2018 9/27/2018
10/4/2018
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS
No. CA-17-774961-AB Order No.:
8707346 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT
UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED
12/14/2000. UNLESS YOU TAKE AC-
TION 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 CON-
TACT 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 specifi ed 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 covenant
or warranty, 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 note(s), advances, under 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 initial publication 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): ALENE PATRIDGE,
A WIDOW Recorded: 12/22/2000 as
Instrument No. 00 1996874 of Offi cial
Records in the offi ce of the Recorder
of LOS ANGELES County, California;
Date of Sale: 10/11/2018 at 10:00 AM
Place of Sale: Behind the fountain located
in Civic Center Plaza, located at
400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona CA
91766 Amount of unpaid balance and
other charges: $15,671.45 The purported
property address is: 287 ACA-
CIA ST, ALTADENA, CA 91001-5513
Assessor’s Parcel No.: 5827-017-017
NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If
you are considering bidding on this
property lien, you should understand
that there are risks involved
in bidding at a trustee auction. You
will be bidding on a lien, not on the
property itself. Placing the highest
bid at a trustee auction does not automatically
entitle you to free and clear
ownership of the property. You should
also be aware that the lien being auctioned
off may be a junior lien. If you
are the highest bidder at the auction,
you are or may be responsible for
paying off all liens senior to the lien
being auctioned off, before you can
receive clear title to the property.
You are encouraged to investigate
the existence, priority, and size of
outstanding liens that may exist on
this property by contacting the county
recorder’s offi ce or a title insurance
company, either of which may charge
you a fee for this information. If you
consult either of these resources, you
should be aware that the same lender
may hold more than one mortgage or
deed of trust on the property. NOTICE
TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date
shown on this notice of sale may be
postponed one or more times by the
mortgagee, benefi ciary, trustee, or
a court, pursuant to Section 2924g
of the California Civil Code. The
law requires that information about
trustee sale postponements be made
available to you and to the public, as
a courtesy to those not present at the
sale. If you wish to learn whether your
sale date has been postponed, and, if
applicable, the rescheduled time and
date for the sale of this property, you
may call 916-939-0772 for information
regarding the trustee’s sale or
visit this Internet Web site http://
www.qualityloan.com, using the fi le
number assigned to this foreclosure
by the Trustee: CA-17-774961-AB.
Information about postponements
that are very short in duration or that
occur close in time to the scheduled
sale may not immediately be refl ected
in the telephone information or on the
Internet Web site. The best way to
verify postponement information is to
attend the scheduled sale. The undersigned
Trustee disclaims any liability
for any incorrectness of the property
address or other common designation,
if any, shown herein. If no street
address or other common designation
is shown, directions to the location
of the property may be obtained by
sending a written request to the benefi
ciary within 10 days of the date of
fi rst publication of this Notice of Sale.
If the sale is set aside for any reason,
including if the Trustee is unable to
convey title, the Purchaser at the sale
shall be entitled only to a return of the
monies paid to the Trustee. This shall
be the Purchaser’s sole and exclusive
remedy. The purchaser shall have no
further recourse against the Trustor,
the Trustee, the Benefi ciary, the Benefi
ciary’s Agent, or the Benefi ciary’s
Attorney. 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
holders right’s against the real property
only. Date: Quality Loan Service
Corporation 2763 Camino Del Rio
South San Diego, CA 92108 619-
645-7711 For NON SALE information
only Sale Line: 916-939-0772 Or
Login to: http://www.qualityloan.com
Reinstatement Line: (866) 645-7711
Ext 5318 Quality Loan Service Corp.
TS No.: CA-17-774961-AB IDSPub
#0145081 9/20/2018 9/27/2018
10/4/2018
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS
No. CA-17-761889-RY Order No.:
170039715-CA-VOI YOU ARE IN
DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST
DATED 10/5/2006. UNLESS YOU
TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR
PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A
PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EX-
PLANATION 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 specifi
ed 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 covenant or warranty, 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 note(s), advances,
under 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 initial publication
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): GLEN D.
COOPER AND KAREN R. COOPER,
HUSBAND AND WIFE AS JOINT TEN-
ANTS Recorded: 10/16/2006 as Instrument
No. 06 2288334 of Offi cial
Records in the offi ce of the Recorder
of LOS ANGELES County, California;
Date of Sale: 11/6/2018 at 10:00 AM
Place of Sale: Behind the fountain
located in Civic Center Plaza, located
at 400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona
CA 91766 Amount of unpaid balance
and other charges: $551,472.72 The
purported property address is: 343
BARTHE DRIVE, PASADENA, CA
91103 Assessor’s Parcel No.: 5726-
008-001 NOTICE TO POTENTIAL
BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding
on this property lien, you should
understand that there are risks involved
in bidding at a trustee auction.
You will be bidding on a lien, not on
the property itself. Placing the highest
bid at a trustee auction does not automatically
entitle you to free and clear
ownership of the property. You should
also be aware that the lien being auctioned
off may be a junior lien. If you
are the highest bidder at the auction,
you are or may be responsible for
paying off all liens senior to the lien
being auctioned off, before you can
receive clear title to the property.
You are encouraged to investigate
the existence, priority, and size of
outstanding liens that may exist on
this property by contacting the county
recorder’s offi ce or a title insurance
company, either of which may charge
you a fee for this information. If you
consult either of these resources, you
should be aware that the same lender
may hold more than one mortgage or
deed of trust on the property. NOTICE
TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date
shown on this notice of sale may be
postponed one or more times by the
mortgagee, benefi ciary, trustee, or
a court, pursuant to Section 2924g
of the California Civil Code. The
law requires that information about
trustee sale postponements be made
available to you and to the public, as
a courtesy to those not present at the
sale. If you wish to learn whether your
sale date has been postponed, and, if
applicable, the rescheduled time and
date for the sale of this property, you
may call 916-939-0772 for information
regarding the trustee’s sale or
visit this Internet Web site http://
www.qualityloan.com, using the fi le
number assigned to this foreclosure
by the Trustee: CA-17-761889-RY.
Information about postponements
that are very short in duration or that
occur close in time to the scheduled
sale may not immediately be refl ected
in the telephone information or on the
Internet Web site. The best way to
verify postponement information is to
attend the scheduled sale. The undersigned
Trustee disclaims any liability
for any incorrectness of the property
address or other common designation,
if any, shown herein. If no street
address or other common designation
is shown, directions to the location
of the property may be obtained by
sending a written request to the benefi
ciary within 10 days of the date of
fi rst publication of this Notice of Sale.
If the sale is set aside for any reason,
including if the Trustee is unable to
convey title, the Purchaser at the sale
shall be entitled only to a return of the
monies paid to the Trustee. This shall
be the Purchaser’s sole and exclusive
remedy. The purchaser shall have no
further recourse against the Trustor,
the Trustee, the Benefi ciary, the Benefi
ciary’s Agent, or the Benefi ciary’s
Attorney. 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
holders right’s against the real property
only. Date: Quality Loan Service
Corporation 2763 Camino Del Rio
South San Diego, CA 92108 619-
645-7711 For NON SALE information
only Sale Line: 916-939-0772 Or
Login to: http://www.qualityloan.com
Reinstatement Line: (866) 645-7711
Ext 5318 Quality Loan Service Corp.
TS No.: CA-17-761889-RY IDSPub
#0145227 9/20/2018 9/27/2018
10/4/2018
FICT. BUSINESS NAMES
STATEMENT OF ABANDON-
MENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS
BUSINESS NAME FILE NO:
2018-214826
FILE NO: 2017-273023 DATE FILED:
09/22/2017. Name of Business(es)
WPA LENDING INC, TARGET HOME
LOANS, 12514 South Street, Cerritos,
CA 90703. REGISTERED OWNER(S):
WPA Lending Inc., 12514 South
Street, Cerritos, CA 90703. Business
was conducted by a Corporation. I
declare that all information in this
statement is true and correct. (A registrant
who declares as true information
which he or she knows to be false
is guilty of a crime.) REGISTRANTS
NAMES/CORP/LLC (PRINT) Robert
Le TITLE: President. If corporation,
also print corporate title of offi cer. If
LLC, also print tile of offi cer or manager.
This statement was fi led with
the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES
County on the date indicated by the
fi led stamp in the upper right corner:
August 24, 2018. I HEREBY CERTIFY
THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT
COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATE-
MENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. DEAN
C. LOGAN, LOS ANGELES COUNTY
CLERK
by: Mendoria Stephens,
Deputy Publish: Pasadena Weekly.
Dates: 8/30/18, 9/6/18, 9/13/18,
9/20/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018215743
Type of Filing: Original. The following
person(s) is (are) doing business
as: KOALA MATCHA. 1931
Kelton Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90025.
COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED
OWNER(S) Icon Entertainment, LLC,
1931 Kelton Ave. Los Angeles, CA
90025. State of Incorporation or LLC:
California. THIS BUSINESS IS CON-
DUCTED BY a Limited Liability Company.
The registrant commenced to
transact business under the fi ctitious
business name or names listed above
on: N/A. I declare that all information
in this statement is true and correct.
/s/ Mark J. Harris. TITLE: Owner,
Corp or LLC Name: Icon Entertainment,
LLC. This statement was fi led
with the LA County Clerk on: August
27, 2018. NOTICE in accordance with
subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a
Fictitious Name statement generally
expires at the end of fi ve years from
the date on which it was fi led in the
offi ce of the county clerk, except, as
provided in subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after
any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a fi ctitious business name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., Business and
Professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 8/30/18, 9/6/18,
9/13/18, 9/2018
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018215178
Type of Filing: Original. The following
person(s) is (are) doing business as:
HALFHEART. 1471 S. Lemon Ave.,
Walnut, CA 91789. COUNTY: Los
Angeles. Articles of Incorporation
or Organization Number: 3999248.
REGISTERED OWNER(S) Fuya International
Inc., 1471 S. Lemon Ave.,
Walnut, CA 91789. State of Incorporation
or LLC: California. THIS
BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY a
Corporation business under the fi ctitious
business name or names listed
above on: 08/2018. I declare that all
information in this statement is true
and correct. /s/ Jian Chen. TITLE:
CEO, Corp or LLC Name: Fuya International
Inc. This statement was fi led
with the LA County Clerk on: August
24, 2018. NOTICE in accordance with
subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a
Fictitious Name statement generally
expires at the end of fi ve years from
the date on which it was fi led in the
offi ce of the county clerk, except, as
provided in subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after
any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a fi ctitious business name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., Business and
Professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 8/30/18, 9/6/18,
9/13/18, 9/2018
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018203267
Type of Filing: Original. The following
person(s) is (are) doing business
as: EXECUSYSTEMS. 600 Michigan
Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91107. COUNTY:
Los Angeles. Articles of Incorporation
or Organization Number: 1378164.
REGISTERED OWNER(S) Value Added
Offi ce Systems Enterprises, Inc.,
600 Michigan Blvd., Pasadena, CA
91107. State of Incorporation or LLC:
California. THIS BUSINESS IS CON-
DUCTED BY a Corporation business
under the fi ctitious business name
or names listed above on: 08/1986.
I declare that all information in this
statement is true and correct. /s/ John
Milinovich. TITLE: President, Corp or
LLC Name: Value Added Offi ce Systems
Enterprises, Inc. This statement
was fi led with the LA County Clerk on:
August 10, 2018. NOTICE in accordance
with subdivision (a) of Section
17920, a Fictitious Name statement
generally expires at the end of fi ve
years from the date on which it was
fi led in the offi ce of the county clerk,
except, as provided in subdivision
(b) of Section 17920, where it expires
40 days after any change in the facts
set forth in the statement pursuant to
Section 17913 other than a change in
the residence address of a registered
owner. a new Fictitious Business
Name statement must be fi led before
the expiration. The fi ling of this statement
does not of itself authorize the
use in this state of a fi ctitious business
name in violation of the rights of
another under federal, state, or common
law (see Section 14411 et seq.,
Business and Professions code).
Publish: Pasadena Weekly. Dates:
8/30/18, 9/6/18, 9/13/18, 9/2018
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018217211
Type of Filing: Original The following
person(s) is (are) doing business
as: PRIORITY PLUS SEDAN;
3585 Glenrose Avenue Altadena, CA
91001. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REG-
ISTERED OWNER(S) Stanley Jerome
Kilpatrick, 3585 Glenrose Avenue
Altadena, CA 91001. THIS BUSINESS
IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual.
The registrant commenced to transact
business under the Fictitious Business
Name or names listed above on:
04/1995. I declare that all information
in this statement is true and correct.
/s/: Stanley Jerome Kilpatrick. TITLE:
Owner. This statement was fi led with
the LA County Clerk on: August 28,
2018. NOTICE in accordance with
subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a
Fictitious Name Statement generally
expires at the end of fi ve years from
the date on which it was fi led in the
offi ce of the county clerk, except, as
provided in subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after
any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a Fictitious Business Name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., business and
professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 8/30/18, 9/6/18,
9/13/18, 9/20/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018200510
Type of Filing: Original The following
person(s) is (are) doing business as:
GYOZA BOYZ, GYOZA BOYZ LA; 724
S. Spring St. Los Angeles, CA 90014.
COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED
OWNER(S) Akeem J. Wong, 821 S.
2nd St., #K Alhambra, CA 91801.
THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED
BY an Individual. The registrant commenced
to transact business under
the Fictitious Business Name or
names listed above on: N/A. I declare
that all information in this statement is
true and correct. /s/: Akeem J. Wong.
TITLE: Owner. This statement was
fi led with the LA County Clerk on: August
8, 2018. NOTICE in accordance
with subdivision (a) of Section 17920,
a Fictitious Name Statement generally
expires at the end of fi ve years from
the date on which it was fi led in the
offi ce of the county clerk, except, as
provided in subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after
any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a Fictitious Business Name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., business and
professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 8/30/18, 9/6/18,
9/13/18, 9/20/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018216177
Type of Filing: Original The following
person(s) is (are) doing business
as: FIGARO ENTERTAINMENT; Stephen
G. Rodriguez ATTY 633 West
5th Street 26th Floor Los Angeles,
CA 90071. COUNTY: Los Angeles.
REGISTERED OWNER(S) Andrea
Lynne Evans, 2121 Loma Vista Pasadena,
CA 91104. THIS BUSINESS IS
CONDUCTED BY an Individual. The
registrant commenced to transact
business under the Fictitious Business
Name or names listed above
on: N/A. I declare that all information
in this statement is true and correct.
/s/: Andrea Lynne Evans. TITLE:
Owner. This statement was fi led with
the LA County Clerk on: August 27,
2018. NOTICE in accordance with
subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a
Fictitious Name Statement generally
expires at the end of fi ve years from
the date on which it was fi led in the
offi ce of the county clerk, except, as
provided in subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after
any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a Fictitious Business Name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., business and
professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 8/30/18, 9/6/18,
9/13/18, 9/20/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018202422
Type of Filing: Original The following
person(s) is (are) doing business
as: MAFIG; 1445 E. Wilson Ave.
Glendale, CA 91206. COUNTY: Los
Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S)
Sonia Figueroa, 1445 E. Wilson Ave.
Glendale, CA 91206. THIS BUSINESS
IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual.
The registrant commenced to transact
business under the Fictitious Business
Name or names listed above
on: N/A. I declare that all information
in this statement is true and correct.
/s/: Sonia Figueroa. TITLE: Owner.
This statement was fi led with the LA
County Clerk on: August 9, 2018.
NOTICE in accordance with subdivision
(a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious
Name Statement generally expires
at the end of fi ve years from the date
on which it was fi led in the offi ce of
the county clerk, except, as provided
in subdivision (b) of Section 17920,
where it expires 40 days after any
change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a Fictitious Business Name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., business and
professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 8/30/18, 9/6/18,
9/13/18, 9/20/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018212943
Type of Filing: Original The following
person(s) is (are) doing business as:
ADRIANA L. MEDRANO, PHD; 130
S. Eucild Ave., Suite 1 Pasadena, CA
91101, 2328 Ω W. 29th Place Los Angeles,
CA 90018. COUNTY: Los Angeles.
REGISTERED OWNER(S) Adriana
L. Medrano, 130 S. Eucild Ave.,
Suite 1 Pasadena, CA 91101. THIS
BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual.
The registrant commenced
to transact business under the Fictitious
Business Name or names
listed above on: N/A. I declare that all
information in this statement is true
and correct. /s/: Adriana L. Medrano.
TITLE: Owner. This statement was
fi led with the LA County Clerk on: August
22, 2018. NOTICE in accordance
with subdivision (a) of Section 17920,
a Fictitious Name Statement generally

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expires at the end of fi ve years from
the date on which it was fi led in the
offi ce of the county clerk, except, as
provided in subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after
any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a Fictitious Business Name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., business and
professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 8/30/18, 9/6/18,
9/13/18, 9/20/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018216360
Type of Filing: Original The following
person(s) is (are) doing business as:
STELLAR MANAGEMENT & CON-
SULTING; 229 S. Butterfi eld Rd., West
Covina, CA 91791. COUNTY: Los Angeles.
REGISTERED OWNER(S) Erlywaty
Tanggono, 229 S. Butterfi eld
Rd., West Covina, CA 91791. THIS
BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual.
The registrant commenced
to transact business under the Fictitious
Business Name or names
listed above on: N/A. I declare that all
information in this statement is true
and correct. /s/: Erlywaty Tanggono.
TITLE: Owner. This statement was
fi led with the LA County Clerk on: August
27, 2018. NOTICE in accordance
with subdivision (a) of Section 17920,
a Fictitious Name Statement generally
expires at the end of fi ve years from
the date on which it was fi led in the
offi ce of the county clerk, except, as
provided in subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after
any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a Fictitious Business Name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., business and
professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 8/30/18, 9/6/18,
9/13/18, 9/20/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018211957
Type of Filing: Original The following
person(s) is (are) doing business as:
COMMUNITY IMPRINT; 216 S. Citrus
St., #236 West Covina, CA 91791.
COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED
OWNER(S) Jorge Armando Marquez,
216 S. Citrus St., #236 West Covina,
CA 91791. THIS BUSINESS IS
CONDUCTED BY an Individual. The
registrant commenced to transact
business under the Fictitious Business
Name or names listed above
on: N/A. I declare that all information
in this statement is true and correct.
/s/: Jorge Armando Marquez. TITLE:
Owner. This statement was fi led with
the LA County Clerk on: August 21,
2018. NOTICE in accordance with
subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a
Fictitious Name Statement generally
expires at the end of fi ve years from
the date on which it was fi led in the
offi ce of the county clerk, except, as
provided in subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after
any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a Fictitious Business Name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., business and
professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 9/6/18, 9/13/18,
9/20/18, 9/27/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018219246
Type of Filing: Original. The following
person(s) is (are) doing business
as: THE ENCORE. 712 E. Walnut St.
Pasadena, CA 91101, 15910 Ventura
Blvd., Ste. 1450 Encino, CA 91436.
COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED
OWNER(S) Pasadena Fee Owner,
LLC, 15910 Ventura Blvd., Ste. 1450
Encino, CA 91436. State of Incorporation
or LLC: California. THIS BUSI-
NESS IS CONDUCTED BY a Limited
Liability Company. The registrant
commenced to transact business
under the fi ctitious business name
or names listed above on: 10/2017.
I declare that all information in this
statement is true and correct. /s/
Edward Ring. TITLE: Managing Member,
Corp or LLC Name: Pasadena Fee
Owner, LLC. This statement was fi led
with the LA County Clerk on: August
29, 2018. NOTICE in accordance with
subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a
Fictitious Name statement generally
expires at the end of fi ve years from
the date on which it was fi led in the
offi ce of the county clerk, except, as
provided in subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after
any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a fi ctitious business name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., Business and
Professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 9/6/18, 9/13/18,
9/20/18, 9/27/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018222143
Type of Filing: Original. The following
person(s) is (are) doing
business as: LAUNCHPRO. 1205
Leonard Ave. Pasadena, Ca 91107.
COUNTY: Los Angeles. Articles of
Incorporation or Organization Number:
201823410493. REGISTERED
OWNER(S) RB & Sons, LLC, 1205
Leonard Ave. Pasadena, Ca 91107.
State of Incorporation or LLC: California.
THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED
BY a Limited Liability Company. The
registrant commenced to transact
business under the fi ctitious business
name or names listed above on:
N/A. I declare that all information in
this statement is true and correct.
/s/ Brian Bitanga. TITLE: Manager,
LLC. This statement was fi led with
the LA County Clerk on: August 31,
2018. NOTICE in accordance with
subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a
Fictitious Name statement generally
expires at the end of fi ve years from
the date on which it was fi led in the
offi ce of the county clerk, except, as
provided in subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after
any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a fi ctitious business name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., Business and
Professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 9/6/18, 9/13/18,
9/20/18, 9/27/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018215215
Type of Filing: Original The following
person(s) is (are) doing business as:
ACG GARDENING; 11647 Killian St.
El Monte, CA 91732. COUNTY: Los
Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S)
Crystal Diaz, 11647 Killian St. El
Monte, CA 91732. THIS BUSINESS
IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual.
The registrant commenced to transact
business under the Fictitious
Business Name or names listed
above on: 07/2018. I declare that all
information in this statement is true
and correct. /s/: Crystal Diaz. TITLE:
Owner. This statement was fi led with
the LA County Clerk on: August 24,
2018. NOTICE in accordance with
subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a
Fictitious Name Statement generally
expires at the end of fi ve years from
the date on which it was fi led in the
offi ce of the county clerk, except, as
provided in subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after
any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a Fictitious Business Name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., business and
professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 9/6/18, 9/13/18,
9/20/18, 9/27/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018220990
Type of Filing: Original The following
person(s) is (are) doing business
as: UNPLUGGED CONTENT; 6311
Van Nuys Blvd., #456 Van Nuys, CA
91401. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REG-
ISTERED OWNER(S) Peter Austin
Keller, 6311 Van Nuys Blvd., #456
Van Nuys, CA 91401. THIS BUSI-
NESS IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual.
The registrant commenced to
transact business under the Fictitious
Business Name or names listed above
on: N/A. I declare that all information
in this statement is true and correct.
/s/: Peter Austin Keller. TITLE:
Owner. This statement was fi led with
the LA County Clerk on: August 30,
2018. NOTICE in accordance with
subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a
Fictitious Name Statement generally
expires at the end of fi ve years from
the date on which it was fi led in the
offi ce of the county clerk, except, as
provided in subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after
any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a Fictitious Business Name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., business and
professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 9/6/18, 9/13/18,
9/20/18, 9/27/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018217786
Type of Filing: Original The following
person(s) is (are) doing business as:
THE EL DUCE TAPES GROUP; 2868
North Coolidge Ave. Los Angeles, CA
90039. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REG-
ISTERED OWNER(S) Tim Kirk, 2868
North Coolidge Ave. Los Angeles,
CA 90039, Rodney Ascher, 613 Piedmont
Los Angeles, CA 90042, David
Lawrence, 200 West Cypress Street
Apt. Ω Glendale, CA 91204. THIS
BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY Copartners.
The registrant commenced
to transact business under the Fictitious
Business Name or names listed
above on: 08/2018. I declare that all
information in this statement is true
and correct. /s/: Tim Kirk. TITLE:
Partner. This statement was fi led with
the LA County Clerk on: August 28,
2018. NOTICE in accordance with
subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a
Fictitious Name Statement generally
expires at the end of fi ve years from
the date on which it was fi led in the
offi ce of the county clerk, except, as
provided in subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after
any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a Fictitious Business Name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., business and
professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 9/6/18, 9/13/18,
9/20/18, 9/27/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018204702
Type of Filing: Original The following
person(s) is (are) doing business as:
STUDIO SUSHI; 4037 Radford Ave.
Studio City, CA 91604, 700 North
Garfi eld Ave., Apt. D Alhambra,
CA 91801. COUNTY: Los Angeles.
REGISTERED OWNER(S) Joshua
Kang, 700 North Garfi eld Ave., Apt.
D Alhambra, CA 91801, Isaac Goli,
3810 West Verdugo Ave. Burbank,
CA 91505. THIS BUSINESS IS CON-
DUCTED BY a General Partnership.
The registrant commenced to transact
business under the Fictitious Business
Name or names listed above
on: N/A. I declare that all information
in this statement is true and correct.
/s/: Joshua Kang. TITLE: Partner.
This statement was fi led with the LA
County Clerk on: August 13, 2018.
NOTICE in accordance with subdivision
(a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious
Name Statement generally expires
at the end of fi ve years from the date
on which it was fi led in the offi ce of
the county clerk, except, as provided
in subdivision (b) of Section 17920,
where it expires 40 days after any
change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a Fictitious Business Name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., business and
professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 9/6/18, 9/13/18,
9/20/18, 9/27/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018214954
Type of Filing: Original The following
person(s) is (are) doing business
as: ABC NAIL SUPPLY; 2416 Earl
Ave. Rosemead, CA 91770, 9448
Lemon Ave. Temple City, CA 91780.
COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED
OWNER(S) Thanh Tuong Ly, 9448
Lemon Ave. Temple City, CA 91780.
THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY
an Individual. The registrant commenced
to transact business under
the Fictitious Business Name or
names listed above on: N/A. I declare
that all information in this statement
is true and correct. /s/: Thanh Tuong
Ly. TITLE: Owner. This statement was
fi led with the LA County Clerk on: August
24, 2018. NOTICE in accordance
with subdivision (a) of Section 17920,
a Fictitious Name Statement generally
expires at the end of fi ve years from
the date on which it was fi led in the
offi ce of the county clerk, except, as
provided in subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after
any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a Fictitious Business Name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., business and
professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 9/6/18, 9/13/18,
9/20/18, 9/27/18
STATEMENT OF ABANDON-
MENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS
BUSINESS NAME FILE NO:
2018-222293
FILE NO: 2015-140008 DATE FILED:
05/26/2015. Name of Business(es)
JONES READING AND MATH CLIN-
ICS. REGISTERED OWNER(S): An
Hai Cazares and Angel Cazares, 727
E. Benbow St. Covina, CA 91722.
Business was conducted by a Married
Couple. I declare that all information
in this statement is true and
correct. (A registrant who declares
as true information which he or she
knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)
REGISTRANTS NAMES/CORP/LLC
(PRINT) An Hai Cazares TITLE: Wife.
32 PASADENA WEEKLY | 09.20.18

If corporation, also print corporate
title of offi cer. If LLC, also print tile
of offi cer or manager. This statement
was fi led with the County Clerk of
LOS ANGELES County on the date
indicated by the fi led stamp in the upper
right corner: August 31, 2018. I
HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY
IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGI-
NAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY
OFFICE. DEAN C. LOGAN, LOS AN-
GELES COUNTY CLERK by: Cortney
Maffi tt, Deputy Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 9/6/18, 9/13/18,
9/20/18, 9/27/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018211900
Type of Filing: Original. The following
person(s) is (are) doing business
as: TDR ENGINEERING. 2566 N. San
Fernando Road Los Angeles, CA
90065. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REG-
ISTERED OWNER(S) TDR Inc., 2566
N. San Fernando Road Los Angeles,
CA 90065. State of Incorporation or
LLC: California. THIS BUSINESS IS
CONDUCTED BY a Corporation. The
registrant commenced to transact
business under the fi ctitious business
name or names listed above
on: 01/2018. I declare that all information
in this statement is true and
correct. /s/ Ysali Araceli Pockman.
TITLE: CEO, Corp or LLC Name: TDR
Inc. This statement was fi led with
the LA County Clerk on: August 21,
2018. NOTICE in accordance with
subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a
Fictitious Name statement generally
expires at the end of fi ve years from
the date on which it was fi led in the
offi ce of the county clerk, except, as
provided in subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after
any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a fi ctitious business name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., Business and
Professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 9/13/18, 9/20/18,
9/27/18, 10/4/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018206317
Type of Filing: Refi le. The following
person(s) is (are) doing business
as: CAF… NELA. 1916 Cypress
Avenue Los Angeles, Ca 90065, PO
Box 50381 Los Angeles, CA 90050.
COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGIS-
TERED OWNER(S) The Nosh Pit Inc.,
1916 Cypress Avenue Los Angeles,
Ca 90065. State of Incorporation or
LLC: California. THIS BUSINESS IS
CONDUCTED BY a Corporation. The
registrant commenced to transact
business under the fi ctitious business
name or names listed above on:
09/2013. I declare that all information
in this statement is true and correct.
/s/ David Travis. TITLE: President,
Corp or LLC Name: The Nosh
Pit Inc. This statement was fi led with
the LA County Clerk on: August 15,
2018. NOTICE in accordance with
subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a
Fictitious Name statement generally
expires at the end of fi ve years from
the date on which it was fi led in the
offi ce of the county clerk, except, as
provided in subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after
any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a fi ctitious business name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., Business and
Professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 9/13/18, 9/20/18,
9/27/18, 10/4/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018223495
Type of Filing: Original The following
person(s) is (are) doing
business as: DELCORP, DELPRO
INDUSTRIES, ARTESANO INDUS-
TRIES; 1230 Front Street Alhambra,
CA 91803. COUNTY: Los Angeles.
REGISTERED OWNER(S) Jessica
Delgado and Rudy Delgado, 1230
Front Street Alhambra, CA 91803.
THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED
BY a Married Couple. The registrant
commenced to transact business
under the Fictitious Business Name
or names listed above on: 09/2018.
I declare that all information in this
statement is true and correct. /s/:
Jessica Delgado. TITLE: Owner.
This statement was fi led with the
LA County Clerk on: September 4,
2018. NOTICE in accordance with
subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a
Fictitious Name Statement generally
expires at the end of fi ve years from
the date on which it was fi led in the
offi ce of the county clerk, except, as
provided in subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after
any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a Fictitious Business Name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., business and
professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 9/13/18, 9/20/18,
9/27/18, 10/4/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018217542
Type of Filing: Original The following
person(s) is (are) doing business
as: HIGHLAND PARK CLASSICS;
1022 Mission Street Suite A South
Pasadena, CA 91030, 6113 Piedmont
Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90042.
COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGIS-
TERED OWNER(S) Rodney Ascher,
6113 Piedmont Ave. Los Angeles,
CA 90042. THIS BUSINESS IS
CONDUCTED BY an Individual. The
registrant commenced to transact
business under the Fictitious Business
Name or names listed above
on: 06/2018. I declare that all information
in this statement is true and
correct. /s/: Rodney Ascher. TITLE:
Owner. This statement was fi led with
the LA County Clerk on: August 28,
2018. NOTICE in accordance with
subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a
Fictitious Name Statement generally
expires at the end of fi ve years from
the date on which it was fi led in the
offi ce of the county clerk, except, as
provided in subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after
any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a Fictitious Business Name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., business and
professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 9/13/18, 9/20/18,
9/27/18, 10/4/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018227143
Type of Filing: Original The following
person(s) is (are) doing business as:
THE NANCY LOUISE SELIR TRUST,
THE MARIE NANCY SELIR TRUST,
CHRISTOPHER KANE CASEY, DA-
VID CASEY, DAVID CHRISTOPHER
CASEY TRUST, ELEXIS MARIE
CASEY, JUAN M SANCHEZ, JUAN
MARTIN SANCHEZ, MAHAN,NANCY
L TR, NANCY L MAHAN TRUST,
NANCY LOUISE MAHAN, NANCY
LOUISE SELIR, POTRERO GRANDE,
RANCHO POTRERO GRANDE, RAN-
CHO POTRERO GRANDE TRUST,
ROCHELLE M CASEY, ROCHELLE
MARIE BENTON, ROCHELLE MARIE
BRETT; 7862 East Steddom Drive
Rosemead, CA 91770. COUNTY: Los
Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S)
Luke Skywalker, 7862 East Steddom
Drive Rosemead, CA 91770.
THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED
BY an Individual. The registrant
commenced to transact business
under the Fictitious Business Name
or names listed above on: 10/2004.
I declare that all information in this
statement is true and correct. /s/:
Luke Skywalker. TITLE: Owner.
This statement was fi led with the
LA County Clerk on: September 7,
2018. NOTICE in accordance with
subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a
Fictitious Name Statement generally
expires at the end of fi ve years from
the date on which it was fi led in the
offi ce of the county clerk, except, as
provided in subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after
any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a Fictitious Business Name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., business and
professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 9/13/18, 9/20/18,
9/27/18, 10/4/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018224417
Type of Filing: Refi le The following
person(s) is (are) doing business
as: SKY BLU HOME; 26061
Shadow Rock Lane Valencia, CA
91361. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REG-
ISTERED OWNER(S) Sandy Cho,
26061 Shadow Rock Lane Valencia,
CA 91361. THIS BUSINESS IS
CONDUCTED BY an Individual. The
registrant commenced to transact
business under the Fictitious Business
Name or names listed above on:
07/2018. I declare that all information
in this statement is true and correct.
/s/: Sandy E. Cho. TITLE: Owner.
This statement was fi led with the
LA County Clerk on: September 5,
2018. NOTICE in accordance with
subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a
Fictitious Name Statement generally
expires at the end of fi ve years from
the date on which it was fi led in the
offi ce of the county clerk, except, as
provided in subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after
any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a Fictitious Business Name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., business and
professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 9/13/18, 9/20/18,
9/27/18, 10/4/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018220628
Type of Filing: Original The following
person(s) is (are) doing business
as: ALPINE VILLAS; 301 E. Colorado
Blvd., Suite 514 Pasadena, CA 91101.
COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED
OWNER(S) John Tkach, 301 E. Colorado
Blvd., Suite 514 Pasadena, CA
91101. THIS BUSINESS IS CON-
DUCTED BY an Individual. The
registrant commenced to transact
business under the Fictitious Business
Name or names listed above
on: N/A. I declare that all information
in this statement is true and correct.
/s/: John Tkach. TITLE: Owner.
This statement was fi led with the LA
County Clerk on: August 30, 2018.
NOTICE in accordance with subdivision
(a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious
Name Statement generally expires at
the end of fi ve years from the date on
which it was fi led in the offi ce of the
county clerk, except, as provided in
subdivision (b) of Section 17920,
where it expires 40 days after any
change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a Fictitious Business Name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., business and
professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 9/13/18, 9/20/18,
9/27/18, 10/4/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018225300
Type of Filing: Amended The following
person(s) is (are) doing business
as: UNAGI FILMS; 4733 Orion Ave.,
Apt. 14 Sherman Oaks, CA 91403.
COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGIS-
TERED OWNER(S) Lauren Nicole
Grzybowski, 4733 Orion Ave., Apt.
14 Sherman Oaks, CA 91403, Carolyn
Marie Martin, 12729 Riverside
Drive Apt. 311 Sherman Village, CA
91607, Dustin Gregory Martin, 12729
Riverside Drive Apt. 311 Sherman
Village, CA 91607. THIS BUSINESS
IS CONDUCTED BY a General Partnership.
The registrant commenced
to transact business under the Fictitious
Business Name or names listed
above on: 09/2018. I declare that all
information in this statement is true
and correct. /s/: Dustin Gregory
Martin. TITLE: Managing Member.
This statement was fi led with the
LA County Clerk on: September 6,
2018. NOTICE in accordance with
subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a
Fictitious Name Statement generally
expires at the end of fi ve years from
the date on which it was fi led in the
offi ce of the county clerk, except, as
provided in subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after
any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a Fictitious Business Name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., business and
professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 9/13/18, 9/20/18,
9/27/18, 10/4/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018216244
Type of Filing: Original The following
person(s) is (are) doing business as:
SAFE RAGS TRADING; 209 South
Prospectors Road Diamond Bar,
CA 91765. COUNTY: Los Angeles.
REGISTERED OWNER(S) Shahzad
Lakhani, 209 South Prospectors
Road Diamond Bar, CA 91765. THIS
BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY
an Individual. The registrant commenced
to transact business under
the Fictitious Business Name or
names listed above on: 08/2018. I
declare that all information in this
statement is true and correct. /s/:
Shahzad Lakhani. TITLE: Owner.
This statement was fi led with the LA
County Clerk on: August 27, 2018.
NOTICE in accordance with subdivision
(a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious
Name Statement generally expires at
the end of fi ve years from the date on
which it was fi led in the offi ce of the
county clerk, except, as provided in
subdivision (b) of Section 17920,
where it expires 40 days after any
change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a Fictitious Business Name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., business and
professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 9/13/18, 9/20/18,
9/27/18, 10/4/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018224497
Type of Filing: Original The following
person(s) is (are) doing business as:
SMART WHOLESALE & DISTRIBU-
TION; 3355 N. White Avenue #602
La Verne, CA 91750. COUNTY: Los
Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S)
Monica Ann Sandoval, 3355 N. White
Avenue #602 La Verne, CA 91750.
THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED
BY an Individual. The registrant
commenced to transact business
under the Fictitious Business Name
or names listed above on: 09/2018.
I declare that all information in this
statement is true and correct. /s/:
Monica Ann Sandoval. TITLE: Owner.
This statement was fi led with the
LA County Clerk on: September 5,
2018. NOTICE in accordance with
subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a
Fictitious Name Statement generally
expires at the end of fi ve years from
the date on which it was fi led in the
offi ce of the county clerk, except, as
provided in subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after
any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a Fictitious Business Name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., business and
professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 9/13/18, 9/20/18,
9/27/18, 10/4/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018231195
Type of Filing: Original. The following
person(s) is (are) doing business
as: RFT COACHING. 1782 E. Washington
Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91104.
COUNTY: Los Angeles. Articles of
Incorporation or Organization Number:
201821310122. REGISTERED
OWNER(S) RFT Coaching LLC, 657
S. Cochran Ave., Apt. 203 Los Angeles,
CA 90036. State of Incorporation
or LLC: California. THIS BUSINESS
IS CONDUCTED BY a Limited Liability
Company. The registrant commenced
to transact business under
the fi ctitious business name or
names listed above on: 09/2018. I
declare that all information in this
statement is true and correct. /s/
Christopher M. Judy. TITLE: Manager,
Corp or LLC Name: RFT Coaching
LLC. This statement was fi led with the
LA County Clerk on: September 12,
2018. NOTICE in accordance with
subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a
Fictitious Name statement generally
expires at the end of fi ve years from
the date on which it was fi led in the
offi ce of the county clerk, except, as
provided in subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after
any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a fi ctitious business name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., Business and
Professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 9/20/18, 9/27/18,
10/4/18, 10/11/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018228501
Type of Filing: Original The following
person(s) is (are) doing business
as: MR BROWN SOLUTIONS, M.R.
BROWN SOLUTIONS; 11254 Huston
St. Apt. 104 North Hollywood, CA
91601. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REG-
ISTERED OWNER(S) Michael Rodney
Brown, 11254 Huston St. Apt.
104 North Hollywood, CA 91601.
THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED
BY an Individual. The registrant
commenced to transact business
under the Fictitious Business Name
or names listed above on: 09/2018.
I declare that all information in this
statement is true and correct. /s/: Michael
Rodney Brown. TITLE: Owner.
This statement was fi led with the
LA County Clerk on: September 10,
2018. NOTICE in accordance with
subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a
Fictitious Name Statement generally
expires at the end of fi ve years from
the date on which it was fi led in the
offi ce of the county clerk, except, as
provided in subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after
any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a Fictitious Business Name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., business and
professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 9/20/18, 9/27/18,
10/4/18, 10/11/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018212477
Type of Filing: Original The following
person(s) is (are) doing business as:
RIOTT HOUSE STUDIO; 5419 Cleon
Ave. North Hollywood, CA 91601,
14625 Magnolia Blvd., 22 Sherman
Oaks, CA 91403. COUNTY: Los
Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S)
Barry Pointer, 14625 Magnolia Blvd.,
22 Sherman Oaks, CA 91403. THIS
BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual.
The registrant commenced
to transact business under the Fictitious
Business Name or names
listed above on: N/A. I declare that all
information in this statement is true
and correct. /s/: Barry Pointer. TITLE:
Owner. This statement was fi led with
the LA County Clerk on: August 22,
2018. NOTICE in accordance with
subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a
Fictitious Name Statement generally
expires at the end of fi ve years from
the date on which it was fi led in the
offi ce of the county clerk, except, as
provided in subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after
any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a Fictitious Business Name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., business and
professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 9/20/18, 9/27/18,
10/4/18, 10/11/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018234296
Type of Filing: Original The following
person(s) is (are) doing business as:
RIGEL RENTALS; 311 W. Altadena Dr.
Altadena, CA 91001. COUNTY: Los
Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S)
Steven Schaffer, 311 W. Altadena
Dr. Altadena, CA 91001. THIS BUSI-
NESS IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual.
The registrant commenced
to transact business under the Fictitious
Business Name or names listed
above on: N/A. I declare that all information
in this statement is true and
correct. /s/: Steven Schaffer. TITLE:
Owner. This statement was fi led with
the LA County Clerk on: September
14, 2018. NOTICE in accordance with
subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a
Fictitious Name Statement generally
expires at the end of fi ve years from
the date on which it was fi led in the
offi ce of the county clerk, except, as
provided in subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after
any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a Fictitious Business Name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., business and
professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 9/20/18, 9/27/18,
10/4/18, 10/11/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018231931
Type of Filing: Original The following
person(s) is (are) doing business as:
CHARISSA S. CALLIGRAPHY; 624
W. Mauna Loa Ave. Glendora, CA
91740. COUNTY: Los Angeles. REG-
ISTERED OWNER(S) Charissa Seloadji,
624 W. Mauna Loa Ave. Glendora,
CA 91740. THIS BUSINESS IS
CONDUCTED BY an Individual. The
registrant commenced to transact
business under the Fictitious Business
Name or names listed above on:
06/2018. I declare that all information
in this statement is true and correct.
/s/: Charissa Seloadji. TITLE: Owner.
This statement was fi led with the
LA County Clerk on: September 12,
2018. NOTICE in accordance with
subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a
Fictitious Name Statement generally
expires at the end of fi ve years from
the date on which it was fi led in the
offi ce of the county clerk, except, as
provided in subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after
any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a Fictitious Business Name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., business and
professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 9/20/18, 9/27/18,
10/4/18, 10/11/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018229839
Type of Filing: Original The following
person(s) is (are) doing business
as: LEVEL ONE PROPERTIES; 6275
Ebbtide Way Malibu, CA 90265.
COUNTY: Los Angeles. REGISTERED
OWNER(S) Jeffrey K. Hitz, 6275
Ebbtide Way Malibu, CA 90265. THIS
BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual.
The registrant commenced
to transact business under the Fictitious
Business Name or names listed
above on: 08/2018. I declare that all
information in this statement is true
and correct. /s/: Jeffrey K Hitz. TITLE:
Owner. This statement was fi led with
the LA County Clerk on: September
11, 2018. NOTICE in accordance with
subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a
Fictitious Name Statement generally
expires at the end of fi ve years from
the date on which it was fi led in the
offi ce of the county clerk, except, as
provided in subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after
any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a Fictitious Business Name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., business and
professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 9/20/18, 9/27/18,
10/4/18, 10/11/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018226119
Type of Filing: Amended The following
person(s) is (are) doing business
as: SHUCKS, SHUCKS LOS ANGE-
LES; 2785 Saleroso Drive Rowland
Heights, CA 91748. COUNTY: Los
Angeles. REGISTERED OWNER(S)
Evelyn Wang, 2785 Saleroso Drive
Rowland Heights, CA 91748. THIS
BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY an Individual.
The registrant commenced
to transact business under the Fictitious
Business Name or names
listed above on: N/A. I declare that all
information in this statement is true
and correct. /s/: Evelyn Wang. TITLE:
Owner. This statement was fi led with
the LA County Clerk on: September
6, 2018. NOTICE in accordance with
subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a
Fictitious Name Statement generally
expires at the end of fi ve years from
the date on which it was fi led in the
offi ce of the county clerk, except, as
provided in subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after
any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a Fictitious Business Name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., business and
professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 9/20/18, 9/27/18,
10/4/18, 10/11/18
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
2018
219494 Type of Filing: Original. The
following person(s) is (are) doing
business as: VIDA THERAPY. 15233
Ventura Blvd., Suite 1208 Sherman
Oaks, CA 91403. COUNTY: Los Angeles.
Articles of Incorporation or Organization
Number: 201821310122.
REGISTERED OWNER(S) Vida
Therapy, Marriage, Family, and
Child Counseling Inc., 15233 Ventura
Blvd., Suite 1208 Sherman Oaks,
CA 91403. State of Incorporation or
LLC: California. THIS BUSINESS IS
CONDUCTED BY a Corporation. The
registrant commenced to transact
business under the fi ctitious business
name or names listed above on:
N/A. I declare that all information in
this statement is true and correct. /s/
Zeahlot A. Lopez. TITLE: Manager,
Corp or LLC Name: Vida Therapy,
Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling
Inc. This statement was fi led with
the LA County Clerk on: August 29,
2018. NOTICE – in accordance with
subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a
Fictitious Name statement generally
expires at the end of fi ve years from
the date on which it was fi led in the
offi ce of the county clerk, except, as
provided in subdivision (b) of Section
17920, where it expires 40 days after
any change in the facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to Section 17913
other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. a new
Fictitious Business Name statement
must be fi led before the expiration.
The fi ling of this statement does not
of itself authorize the use in this state
of a fi ctitious business name in violation
of the rights of another under
federal, state, or common law (see
Section 14411 et seq., Business and
Professions code). Publish: Pasadena
Weekly. Dates: 9/20/18, 9/27/18,
10/4/18, 10/11/18
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THURSDAY 09.20.18
Acoustic performer, singer and songwriter Peter Harper launches his Thursday residency at Noor, performing once a month until
December, starting at 7:30 p.m. at 300 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. Tickets are $8. Visit noorevents.com.
EVENTS
FOR THE WEEK OF
09.20–09.27
BY JOHN SOLLENBERGER
Peter Harper
FRIDAY 09.21.18
SATURDAY 09.22.18
IAMA Theatre Company presents “American Hero” by Bess Wohl, with regular performances
starting at 8:30 p.m. Friday and continuing through Oct. 21 at the Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S. El Molino
Ave., Pasadena. “American Hero” is the story of three sandwich makers at a sub franchise whose quest
to attain the American dream is interrupted by a series of strange events. Tickets are $40 for Friday’s
opening, $30 thereafter. Call (323) 380-8843 or visit iamatheatre.com.
SUNDAY 09.23.18
MONDAY 09.24.18
The Star Party Gala at the Arcadia Performing Arts Center, 188 Campus Drive, Arcadia, features
Grammy Award winner, jazz vocalist Steve Tyrell. Tickets are $20 general admission to $300 VIP
admission. VIP admission starts at 5 p.m. Doors open for general admission at 7:30 p.m. The concert
starts at 8 p.m. Visit arcadiapaf.org.
A Noise Within, 3352 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena, presents “A Picture of Dorian Gray,”
based on a novella by Oscar Wilde about a man who sells his soul to preserve his youth and pays
a price, descending into debauchery as those around him are drawn to their own ruin. It opens at 2
p.m. Sunday and continues through Nov. 16. Tickets are $25 and up. Call (626) 356-3121 or visit
anoisewithin.org.
TUESDAY 09.25.18
WEDNESDAY 09.26.18
The Arcadia Chamber of Commerce Taste of Arcadia runs from 5:30 to 9 p.m. at the
Arboretum, 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia. The event features a wide variety of food from
local vendors, fine wines and distilled liquors. Individual tickets are $50 and VIP tickets for
tables of 10 are $800. Call (626) 447-2159 or visit arcadiachamber.org.
The Pasadena Senior Center Masters Series starts Tuesday and continues from 2 to 4 p.m.
Tuesdays through Nov. 13 (no session Oct. 2), at 85 E. Holly St., Pasadena. Tuesday’s session features
Randy Schulman, vice president for advancement at the Huntington Library, with a photo tour of
its many gardens. Cost for the series is $105, or $15 for each session. Call (626) 795-4331 or visit
pasadenaseniorcenter.org.
Catch a performance of “Native Gardens” at 8 p.m. at the Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S. El Molino Ave.,
Pasadena before it closes Sept. 30. Tickets are $25 and up. Call (626) 356-7529 or visit pasadenaplayhouse.org.
THURSDAY 09.27.18
The Professional Woman Speaker Series by Zeutzius, Hutchinson and Sosa Wealth
Management Group offers advice for any woman wondering how to navigate life following a
career. The five-week series runs from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursdays, starting Sept. 27 at the
Shakespeare Club, 171 S. Grand Ave., Pasadena. Free, but RSVP to katrina.soelter@wfadvisors.com.
Visit zhswealthmanagementgroup.com/event.8.htm.
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