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MADELEINE PAUKER The emergency zoning increasing number of vacant businesses really adds to that tourists are looking for unique Daily Press Staff Writer ordinance, which will not impact storefronts with restaurants more authenticity,” said Mayor Pro dining options, although such existing restaurants, is meant to distinctive than Yogurtland or Tempore Gleam Davis. restaurants can be hard to sustain Santa Monica City Council voted help transform the Promenade Chipotle will attract visitors. Misti Kerns, president of in Santa Monica. Tuesday night to prohibit fast-casual into a community gathering place “People come to the Promenade Santa Monica Travel & Tourism, “Local businesses frame the restaurants and cafe chains with as the growth of online retailers because it has a level of authenticity said consumer focus groups the fabric of this community and … we more than 100 locations nationwide drives down foot traffic. The City other shopping districts don’t have, organization has conducted in from opening on the Promenade. hopes that filling Third Street’s and having some independent the past few months indicate that SEE CHAINS PAGE 6 Holiday Protesters gather at City Hall to ‘Stop the Appeal’ season hits Santa Monica

ANGEL CARRERAS Daily Press Staff Writer

Santa Monica’s holiday season kicks off in earnest this week with tree lightings, holiday music, photo ops with the Jolly One and more festivities. Downtown Santa Monica and Main Street will have their own respective holiday events this Friday and Saturday with both sections of town offering their own spin on winter cheer. DTSM will offer craft stations for the kids, Christmas carols sung by Lincoln Middle School, music from SMCs Emeritus band, photo ops with Saint Nick and a festive tree lighting, fake snow included, to put residents in the holiday spirit. Angel Carreras While a flashy affair, event PROTEST: A group of residents gathered at City Hall Tuesday to oppose a potential appeal in the recent voting rights lawsuit. organizers say the events will still evoke the Santa Monica small- ANGEL CARRERAS will issue a final judgment sometime after at-large election system Loya said prevented town feel. Daily Press Staff Writer a hearing on Dec. 7. Attorneys for the City people of color from being elected. She “Our event isn’t meant to have said they plan to appeal. added she thinks the City is wasting $10 compete with other big holiday A crowd of more than 70 protesters Plaintiffs Maria Loya and the Pico million battling the lawsuit. events like what The Grove gathered around City Hall Tuesday night and Neighborhood Association sued the City of “What could the city have done with does,” Kathleen Rawson, CEO of soon filled Council chambers to let officials Santa Monica in 2016, alleging it’s at-large that? They’re telling us they don’t have Downtown Santa Monica said. know protesters want to “Stop the Appeal.” voting system dilutes Latino/a voting power money to keep our parks safe, no money to “This is definitely a community Protesters were upset with the City’s by denying them proper representation, a help residents, but they sure have money to event, meant for the people who decision to appeal a recent ruling in a violation of the California Voting Rights Act. protect their own interests and to protect work and live in Santa Monica.” California Voting Rights case that would Loya, who was joined by her husband their staff and cronies,” Loya said. “We’re In conjunction with the tree move future elections to a district-based Oscar de la Torre, said Tuesday night that here tonight to send a message that we don’t lighting event, DTSM has weeks system. Judge Yvette Palazuelos issued a she was upset that the City would appeal of winter programming dubbed tentative ruling in the Plaintiff ’s favor and the decision in an attempt to preserve an SEE PROTEST PAGE 7 SEE SEASON PAGE 7 Calendar 2 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2018 Visit us online at www.smdp.com

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In honor of the 120th anniversary of Thursday, Nov. 29 the Santa Monica Camera Obscura, Echo Park Film Center’s nineteen-mem- L.E.A.R.N.: Learn, Excel, ber cooperative is creating a film that Achieve and Read Now celebrates the beloved optical device. Kids can get one-on-one access to vol- Titled ‘I’ll Be Your Mirror,’ it’s a poetic unteers available to help students with documentary that utilizes analog film homework assignments and reading tools and animation techniques along comprehension. Bilingual volunteers with archival imagery and first-person available. Pico Branch Library: 3:30 – accounts. Drop by during EPFC’s work 6 p.m. sessions to see how the project is pro- gressing and help out with filming, ani- mainstreetsm.com Classic Film and Discussion: mation, voice overs, soundtracks and North Dallas Forty (1979) more. No experience necessary - free Film scholar Vivian Rosenberg screens cinematic fun for everyone! Cost: Free! and discusses this classic film starring Palisades Park 10 am-1pm. Nick Nolte and Mac Davis as profession- al football players. (Film runtime: 119 Guest House OPEN min.) Montana Avenue Branch Library 11am-2pm 2 – 5 p.m. Free tours begin at 11am, 12pm and 1pm. No reservations needed Give that extra special touch Digital Fundraising Webinar Annenberg Community Beach House Desc: Join us for a live webinar on digital Marion Davies Guest House 11 am-2pm. to your holiday greetings with fundraising with Michael Stein, Senior Director of Partnerships at EveryAction, Craft Supply Swap presented by The Foundation Center. @ Your Library Main Library 9:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Do you have leftover yarn, extra but- tons, or scraps of ribbon you haven’t Custom Printed Holiday Cards Boy Scout Christmas Tree Lot used in months? Join us to share your for your personal & professional season’s corrospondence Santa Monica Boy Scouts Troop 2 annu- crafting supplies or find new crafting al Christmas Tree Lot. Run by Scouts treasures. Pico Branch Library 2:30 pm under the supervision of adult volun- 4:30 pm. teers. 100% of proceeds support Troop 2. 2923 Wilshire Blvd (Wilshire and Malibu Association of Realtors® Stanford) November 29 - December 21 Saturday, Dec. 1 For you. For all. 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.

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For help submitting an event, contact us at 310.989.9444 |+| [email protected] 310-458-7737 or submit to [email protected] Local Visit us online at www.smdp.com THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2018 3 COMMUNITY BRIEFS Plan seeks to designate Route LOS ANGELES 2 Southern California rail transit projects receive US funds The U.S. Department of Transportation has announced approximately $180 million in 66 as National Historic Trail funding for two Southern California rail transit projects. RUSSELL CONTRERAS as a representation of American pioneer The department’s Federal Transit Administration said Wednesday that an extension of Los Associated Press values,” Inhofe said. Angeles’ Purple Line subway will receive $100 million and the San Diego Mid-Coast Light Rail The U.S. House of Representatives passed project will receive about $80 million in fiscal year 2018 funds. A new proposal moving through a similar bill in June. The Purple Line project is a 2.6-mile heavy rail extension from Century City to Westwood Congress seeks to designate Route 66, the Under the proposal, the National Park and a Veterans Affairs hospital that includes two stations and 16 vehicles. The total proj- highway that connected Chicago to Los Service would administer Route 66 as a ect cost is $3.7 billion with $1.3 billion in funding requested through the FTA’s Capital Angeles and was once an economic driver National Historic Trail and would help spur Investments Grants Program. for small towns across a post-World War II critical preservation efforts along the highway. The San Diego project is a 10.9-mile light rail extension from downtown San Diego to the United States, as a National Historic Trail. The agency would award federal funds for University City area. U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Jim Inhofe preservation, development, and promotion. ASSOCIATED PRESS announced this week the introduction of a According to the National Park Service, bipartisan bill that would amend the National there are currently 19 designated National SAN FRANCISCO Trails System Act and include Route 66 in an Historic Trails, including the Trail of Tears, Google CEO to make long-awaited congressional appearance effort to help revitalize cities and small towns the Lewis and Clark trail, and the Selma to Google CEO Sundar Pichai will testify next week at a congressional hearing on the com- that sit along the historic corridor. Montgomery March in Alabama. pany’s business practices, just three months after aides put up an empty chair to symbolize The plan comes as cities and towns where Route 66, also called the “Mother Road,” his refusal to appear. the once busy Route 66 passed through was born in 1926 after the Bureau of Public Pichai’s scheduled Dec. 5 appearance before the House Judiciary Committee comes after have been working developing revitalization Roads launched the nation’s first federal he traveled to Washington in late September to meet privately with lawmakers peeved by his projects to rehabilitate aging buildings and highway system, bringing together existing refusal to appear. After that private meeting, Pichai promised to come back to testify. landmarks to attract tourists. local and state roads from Chicago through Among other things, lawmakers are expected to grill him on whether Google rigs its Udall, a New Mexico Democrat, said in a St. Louis to Los Angeles. Small towns influential search engine to stifle conservative voices. President Donald Trump asserts that statement that Route 66 symbolizes freedom opened shops, motels and gas stations to Google’s search engine favors media coverage that he believes distributes “fake news.” that allowed motorists to visit mom-and- pump revenue into local economies just as Google didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. ASSOCIATED PRESS pop diners, small businesses, and scenic the nation’s car culture took off. byways through eight states. Its importance even sparked a “Route HONOLULU “Just as importantly, this bill would 66” song performed by Nat King Cole, and Consumers sue potato chip maker over use of ‘Hawaiian’ brand safeguard Route 66 as (a) cultural landmark, later by the 1980s English electronic band A class-action lawsuit has been filed against the maker of potato chips sold under the brand preserving its significance as the ‘Main Depeche Mode. name Hawaiian, claiming the chips made in Washington state are misleading customers. Street of America’ for future generations Route 66, one of the first roads in the U.S. Michael Maeda of Honolulu and Iliana Sanchez of Los Angeles filed the suit last month, of adventurers, migrants, hitchhikers, and highway system, spanned more than 2,400 alleging Pinnacle Foods Inc. is using false and deceptive advertising and fraudulent and tourists venturing westward,” Udall said. miles (3,862 kilometers). It ran through unfair business practices, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Tuesday. Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican, said it eight states, connecting tourists with friendly They claim they and consumers like them would not have purchased the chips, or would was important for Congress to try to preserve diners in small towns. have paid significantly less, if they knew the snacks were made outside of Hawaii and without the historic road with such a deep history. The route changed a number of times and ingredients from the state. “Museums from Clinton to Elk City to eventually became less of a destination thanks Tim’s Cascade Snacks, a subsidiary of Pinnacle Specialty Foods, sells Hawaiian Kettle Chandler highlight the impact of this road to new interstate highways. Style Potato Chips in several flavors. It also sells onion rings under the Hawaiian moniker. The chips and rings are made in a factory in Algona, Washington, according to the suit. The chips’ packaging does not say the snacks are made in Hawaii. But the lawsuit claims Maeda and Sanchez thought they were purchasing authentic potato chips from Hawaii because of that same packaging. The packaging features images of hula dancers wearing grass skirts and lei or others in traditional Hawaiian dress in front of iconic Hawaii landscapes. Delivering Hope - $1 to 100,000 An attorney for Pinnacle Foods, which is headquartered in New Jersey, declined to com- ment on the lawsuit. The suit was originally filed in state court, but the company moved the case to federal We need your help to help us serve 100,000 meals this year. court last week. ASSOCIATED PRESS Imagine if everyone donated just $1 to go towards providing a meal Join us in our $1 to 100,000 campaign. Virginia Avenue Park Celebrating 7 Years Of Resilience Every dollar raised will go towards delivering 100,000 meals On December 2, the Committee for Racial Justice will celebrate over 7 years of concerted DELIVERING MORE THAN A MEAL activity on behalf of racial justice, which began in response to a racial incident at Santa Monica High School. The celebration, which will include music and spoken word, will be held “Before I didn’t eat very much, I didn’t have anyone to cook for me. in Virginia Avenue Park, Thelma Terry Building, 2200 Virginia Avenue Park Santa Monica, CA I would like to thank everyone for their kindness and support.” 90404, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Potluck dinner will start at 6 pm. … Betty, Santa Monica client This event commemorates the resilience that brought us through attacks from white supremacists who sought to shut down our monthly workshops and stifle our anti-racist DONATE SECURELY ONLINE: www.mealsonwheelswest.org movement. And it recognizes the persistence and resolve that have led us through over seven Contact: [email protected] 310 394-5133 x5 years of monthly community workshops for education, inspiration, training, and advocacy. 501(c)(3) non-profit We will hear words of encouragement and inspiration from Pastor Stephen “Cue” Jn-Marie to strengthen our determination to keep rising. Cue is the pastor of “The Row La—” the Church without walls in downtown Los Angeles’s Skid Row community. Pastor Cue is also a faith rooted organizer with Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE) and co-lead organizer of the Black - Jewish Justice Alliance. (BJJA). He also leads the “We Will Live Coalition—A Black n Brown Clergy and Community Coalition.” Cue’s work includes helping to address unjust public policies in the Los Angeles area. For the past eleven years Cue has advocated for the rights of homeless people, immigrants, Muslims, and other groups in need of progressive support. Cue is a strong advocate for police accountability and for the dismantling of mass incarceration. Music will be led by members of Urban Voices, a choir in skid row; Louise Dobbs, minister of music at Church in Ocean Park; and Dr. Kim Harris, visiting professor at LMU. The Committee for Racial Justice’s Celebration of Resilience is sponsored by the Committee for Racial Justice. TAXES Co-sponsored by Church in Ocean Park, Virginia Ave Park, and the African American ALL FORMS • ALL TYPES • ALL STATES Parent, Student, Staff Support Group. Potluck supper at 6 p.m. and program starts at 6:30 p.m. Virginia Avenue Park, Thelma Terry Bldg. 2200 Virginia Ave. Child care provided. For more information, call Joanne at (310) 422-5431. BACK TAXES • BOOKKEEPING • SMALL BUSINESS SUBMITTED BY JOANNE BERLIN (310) 395-9922 DO YOU HAVE COMMUNITY NEWS? SAMUEL B. 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PARAMOUNT RANCH As I pointed out in this column the week SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK (an before last, an unexpected consequence of all-woman African-American a cappella the recent horrible fires north of here was ensemble formed in DC 45 years ago, I the loss of the location of the Topanga Banjo saw them when they were pretty new and WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN Fiddle Contest at Paramount Ranch, which they knocked me out, now 26 albums and burned and was severely damaged. It was 20 different singers later, touring with their the ideal home for 24 years of the revered sign language interpreter since 1981 and two TO GOOD PEOPLE BECAUSE folk festival that encourages players of all original members, it’s a pretty safe bet they skill levels, even kids and raw beginners, to can still knock you out), Fri 8 p.m., Royce take the stage, but they draw top talent too. Hall, UCLA, $29-$69. OF THE CARELESSNESS OR A treasure of our local music scene, 58 years PERRY FARRELL’S KIND OF HEAVEN but, still counting? ORCHESTRA (this could easily be an event As reported last week in the Daily Press, to remember with Jane’s Addiction, Porno NEGLIGENCE OF OTHERS. the Santa Monica Mountains Fund and for Pyros and Lollapalooza Festival founder the National Park Service are together and all-around interesting guy Ferrell launching “The Paramount Project,” a playing only here and in San Fran debuting campaign to rebuild Paramount Ranch’s his new band and songs from the new Western Town, purchased by the National album set for 2019, his first solo release in Free Consultation Park Service in 1980 and on the National 18 years, previewing an installation in Vegas Over $25 Million Recovered Register of Historic Places, and recently of some kind of “entertainment hub,” and he destroyed by the Woolsey Fire. Members of promises they’ll also be joined by “several the entertainment industry who would like Los Angeles music icons” for this show, so, •CATASTROPHIC PERSONAL INJURIES to be involved in the project have already maybe it’s worth the $69 gamble), Fri 9 p.m., reached out, and the appeal is to members the Teragram Ballroom, downtown LA, $69. •WRONGFUL DEATH of the public as well. SANTA MONICA SYMPHONY UTOMOBILE CCIDENTS Paramount Pictures purchased 2700 ORCHESTRA - 74th Season Winter •A A acres in 1927 for use as a “movie ranch,” and Holiday Concert (I missed their season •BICYCLE/SCOOTER ACCIDENTS they constructed a general store, sheriff ’s opener in Oct. but several people told me jail, saloon, drugstore and other settings, Kazakhstani violinist Roman Kim was •RIDE SHARE ACCIDENTS which made it a perfect location for the folk astoundingly good, but star soloist or no •SPINAL CORD INJURIES festival one weekend a year, and there was our SM Symphony, older than me, has plenty of parking. Still being used for film gifted us with full seasons of outstanding •TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES and TV, it provided Main Street for HBO’s programs played professionally by mostly hit series “Westworld.” professional volunteers continually since the •DOG BITES Festival organizers I spoke with last end of WWII, in acoustically wonderful •TRIP & FALLS weekend indicated some skepticism that the Barnum Hall, and for free, this night music Western Town restoration will be completed director Guido Lamell presents sax master in time, but have pledged that the show will Harvey Pittel and conducts the heck out Robert Lemle You Pay Nothing Until Your Case Is Resolved go on as scheduled next May — somewhere. of some Nutcracker excerpts and music Ideas are welcomed, they might need an from movies, Strauss’ “Sunrise” Fanfare edge to make it happen. from Also Sprach Zarathustra from 2001: 310.392.3055 Be prepared — December gets to be A Space Odyssey, Wagner’s “Ride of the www.lemlelaw.com pretty slim pickins’ for live music, with Valkyries” from Apocalypse Now, Williams sometimes a handful of spectacular events, “Escapades” from Catch Me If You Can — and then of course there’s New Year’s Eve I’ll see you there), Sun 7 p.m., Barnum Hall, that could be the best show of the year but Santa Monica High School, free. you will pay dearly for it. 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The [email protected] PRODUCTION MANAGER Daily Press is adjudicated as a newspaper of much he conducted the premier, a smashing “I’d rather be dead than wet my bed Darren Ouellette general circulation in the County of Los Angeles success, and he also ain’t the schmaltzy Oh, I’d rather be gone, than carry on Madeleine Pauker [email protected] and covers news relevant to the City of Santa crooner who stole his name in the ‘60s, but I’d rather go away, than feel this way [email protected] Monica. The Daily Press is a member of the CIRCULATION California Newspaper Publisher’s Association, don’t get too distracted from Hump’s superb Oh, I’d rather be there, where you haven’t MARKETING DIRECTOR Achling Holliday the National Newspaper Association and the Wagnerian-style score by the 12-foot magical got a care [email protected] Robbie Piubeni Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce. 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“Cost of Living” is not a dreary treatise they grow closer and even intimate as she If you don’t like what TRY OUR NO OBLIGATION on economics. It’s a story about survival shaves him and showers him, washing his in the face of physical and emotional pain: entire body and his hair in a working shower we have to say we will aloneness, neediness, distrustfulness, onstage. And in a new growth of confidence $1 EXAM catastrophic disabilities, and chronic he responds to her ministrations by coming give you a copy of your indignation. And it is, quite simply, one of to treat her with respect and even loses some x-rays at no charge INCLUDES the best plays I’ve ever seen. of his more frantic facial tics. 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Scenes seven and eight return to the laughter as the situation warrants. present, one week before Christmas, and *Nitrous Oxide provided First up is Eddie (Felix Solis), seated finally the epilogue at Eddie’s apartment in as a courtesy $59 EXAM alone at a bar in Brooklyn, who provides Bayonne, New Jersey, later that same night *No interest payment plans AND CLEANING an arresting monologue about his recently- in December. *Emergencies can be seen today For New Patients deceased wife and his love for her — despite The play, with all its funny, intelligent, *Our dentists and staff members her anger at having to live in a wheelchair and engrossing talk would seem to indicate INCLUDES FULL XRAYS after having survived an automobile accident where it will all end up. But it doesn’t. It are easy to talk to that left her paralyzed and with two stumps leads its players, and its audience, into a where her legs had been. Eddie, a long- provocative contemplation of human need, AND OF COURSE WE DO distance trucker, used to text her every night and how one might construct a life in spite of • Invisalign • Periodontist on Staff • Oral Surgeon on Staff when he was on the road and he continues being alone, incapacitated, and unfulfilled. • Cosmetics and Implants • Zoom bleaching • and more to do so even after she dies. And this incredibly gifted ensemble, under Eddie covers his grief and loneliness the powerful direction of John Vreeke, will SANTA MONICA FAMILY DENTISTRY 15TH ST. with flailing arms and dancing feet, having leave you hopeful and exhilarated, and DR. ALAN RUBENSTEIN previously provided humor and warmth, maybe just a bit more attuned to the people WILSHIRE BLVD.★ 14TH ST. tenderness, and limitless patience to his in your life. 1260 15th ST. SUITE #703 understandably bad-tempered wife. She As playwright Majok put it in an interview ARIZONA AVE. 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Theatre, 5060 Fountain Ave., (Fountain at ni Initially contemptuous of her when he Normandie) in Los Angeles. For tickets, o learns that she has had a series of low-level call (323) 663-1525 or online at www. m jobs (her latest as a bar hostess), he perks up FountainTheatre.com. a when she tells him she has a degree, albeit t from what he considers an inferior college. Cynthia Citron has worked as a journalist, public But since nobody else has come forward to relations director, documentary screenwriter and n apply for the job, he reluctantly hires her. theater reviewer. She may be reached at ccit- a Over time, as they share their life stories, [email protected]. s orto heard them, and was taken aback. First of MUSIC all, rock stars did NOT write or even think FROM PAGE 4 about such things. Nobody does till they’re past 60 or 70 at least, right? 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“We envision council members with staff PROTEST so any issues you have get support and FROM PAGE 1 attention at a neighborhood level,” he said. Loya and De la Torre then led the want an appeal.” crowd into a City Hall meeting. Protesters De la Torre said he was there to support overwhelmed the room, filling up seats and his wife and help residents challenge a lining walls while a fire marshal cleared government he feels is out of touch. people from walkways and doorways. “When we see tourists get more attention Residents queued up to voice their than residents, something is wrong. When displeasure with the appeal during the we see developers and hotels get more public speaking portion of the meeting. preference than renters, something is wrong,” Mayor Ted Winterer eventually read a he said. “When the City dumps a freeway prepared statement defending the City’s and City dump in our neighborhood, position, saying a district-based system something is wrong.” would balkanize the community. This De la Torre added he believes electing immediately drew jeers from the audience, City Councilmembers by district will give who walked outside after the Mayor’s residents more of a voice. statements. “We’ll have a government that will De la Torre said he disagreed with represent us at the neighborhood level. Winterer, and believes district-based Someone accessible, someone you can run elections will build unity in the city’s into at the grocery store and talk to,” he communities. said. “We have a system now where we have “That’s sad to hear from the Mayor,” he a council member who lives in Pico and told the crowd. “[District -based elections] knows he doesn’t need the neighborhood for will give voice to the voiceless. We’ll have votes. That’s not right.” people from different parts of the city and De la Torre said he thinks City Hall could they’ll get together and talk about issues.” be decentralized with neighborhood offices that could provide residents with services. [email protected] Local 8 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2018 Visit us online at www.smdp.com

DAILY POLICE LOG SURF REPORT The Santa Monica Police Department Responded To 365 Calls For Service On Nov. 27. HERE IS A SAMPLING OF THOSE CALLS CHOSEN BY THE SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS STAFF.

ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS Battery 1300 block 17th 12:19 a.m. Public intoxication 2500 block 7th 1:10 p.m. Public intoxication 7th/Wilshire 12:48 a.m. Burglary 800 block 20th 1:34 p.m. IN THIS SPACE TODAY! Disturbance of the peace 1400 block Ocean Grand theft 100 block Santa Monica 2:02 p.m. 01:11 a.m. Fight 600 block Wilshire 2:19 p.m. Disturbance of the peace 1200 block Ocean Child abuse 600 block Pico 2:23 p.m. 04:49 a.m. Auto burglary 3000 block Urban 2:58 p.m. Fight Centinela/Expo Line 05:18 a.m. Grand theft 1400 block 3rd Prom 3:00 p.m. Auto burglary 2200 block Pier 05:23 a.m. Animal related incident 1700 block 17th Disturbance of the peace 3100 block 3:02 p.m. Wilshire 06:19 a.m. Elder abuse 1000 block 2nd 3:10 p.m. Disturbance of the peace 17th/Wilshire Rape 20th/Pico 3:10 p.m. 07:26 a.m. Elder abuse 2600 block 4th 3:10 p.m. Battery 1300 block 3rd Prom 07:58 a.m. Burglary 1300 block 6th 3:20 p.m. Vandalism 1900 block 20th 08:01 a.m. Family disturbance 800 block Palisades Person down 3300 block 17th 08:53 a.m. Park 3:40 p.m. Bike theft 1000 block The Beach 08:57 a.m. Found senile person 2200 block Montana Critical missing person 300 block Olympic 3:46 p.m. 09:09 a.m. Sexual assault 1300 block Franklin 3:58 p.m. Traffic collision w/injuries 2nd/Montana Traffic collision w/injuries 1100 block Pacific 09:45 a.m. Coast Hwy 4:17 p.m. Animal related incident 16th/Colorado 09:59 a.m. Animal related incident 500 block 15th 4:27 p.m. Grand theft auto 100 block Palisades 10:02 a.m. Missing person 300 block Olympic 4:53 p.m. call us today (310) 458-7737 Animal related incident 1400 block Ocean Grand theft 100 block Santa Monica 5:38 p.m. 10:28 a.m. Critical missing person 300 block Santa Animal related incident 300 block 25th Monica Pier 5:52 p.m. 11:24 a.m. Fight Ocean/Colorado 5:57 p.m. Disturbance of the peace 2100 block Santa Illegal weapon Euclid/Broadway 6:02 p.m. Monica 11:36 a.m. Family disturbance 2000 block Delaware Grand theft auto 900 block Santa Monica 6:27 p.m. SURF FORECASTS WATER TEMP: 64.3° 11:37 a.m. Family disturbance 2200 block 29th 7:55 p.m. Disturbance of the peace 1600 block Grand theft auto 1300 block 2nd 8:27 p.m. THURSDAY – FAIR – SURF: 2-3 ft waist to stomach high Cloverfield 11:42 a.m. Person down 1900 block 4th 9:10 p.m. New SW/SSW swell continues to slowly fill in. Minor NW swell. Fight 1600 block Cloverfield 11:43 a.m. Auto burglary Main/Ashland 9:25 p.m. Disturbance of the peace 1500 block 4th Battery 2400 block Virginia 9:40 p.m. FRIDAY – FAIR – SURF: 2-3 ft waist to stomach high occ. 4 ft 11:50 a.m. Burglary 1200 block 14th 12:04 Rape 600 block Santa Monica 9:50 p.m. Modest SW/SSW swell continues. Small WNW swell. p.m. Public intoxication Ocean/Colorado 9:54 p.m.

DAILY FIRE LOG SHARE THE LOVE The Santa Monica Fire Department Responded To 26 Calls For Service On Nov. 27. EXPERIENCE BURN FITNESS HERE IS A SAMPLING OF THOSE CALLS CHOSEN BY THE SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS STAFF. Emergency Medical Service 2600 block 3rd EMS 1400 block 14th 7:25 p.m. 03:20 a.m. EMS 800 block Woodacres 7:28 p.m. Automatic alarm 2900 block 4th 03:24 a.m. EMS 400 block Expo Line 7:41 p.m. EMS 1900 block Wilshire 04:34 a.m. Carbon monoxide alarm 900 block 20th EMS 2100 block Ocean 08:21 a.m. 7:45 p.m. EMS 1100 block Arizona 10:08 a.m. Automatic alarm 2500 block Broadway 7:57 EMS 900 block 2nd 11:34 a.m. p.m. Automatic alarm 1700 block Ocean Front EMS 2400 block Michigan 8:33 p.m. Walk 1:53 p.m. EMS 500 block Broadway 8:50 p.m. EMS 1800 block Lincoln 2:35 p.m. EMS 1900 block 4th 9:10 p.m. Traffic collision w/injury Ocean/Montana EMS 1900 block Lincoln 9:23 p.m. 3:00 p.m. EMS 4th/Colorado 9:45 p.m. EMS 2700 block Neilson 3:37 p.m. Electrical fire-no fire visible 500 block EMS 600 block Santa Monica 4:20 p.m. Wilshire 10:00 p.m. EMS 2700 block Neilson 4:31 p.m. EMS 1100 block 20th 10:36 p.m. EMS 1200 block 11th 5:48 p.m. EMS 2000 block Arizona 11:14 p.m.

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Many parts of your life have been defined by your pioneering spirit, but this year will be counted among your most exploratory. The best adventures will be accessible within a few hours of travel time. Also notable: You’ll be given an important key, there’s a chance to repair some history, and a new financial stream will open. Cancer and Aries adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 1, 4, 40, 7 and 18. ARIES (March 21-April 19) LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) It can take courage to live even the most ordinary You’re culling from all these different inspira- daily existence. But it shouldn’t be that way all tions and resources and nothing is really fitting of the time. There’s so much good that will hap- together to point you in a particular direction. pen naturally today. It’s safe to go forward with That’s OK. This won’t be a linear path. Zig now, defenses low, mind calm. zag later. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21) Not all discomfort is good, but since discomfort Attraction can happen naturally, or can be cre- is also the price of admission to a worthwhile ated through careful calculations and applied and interesting life, it can’t be all bad. Today, formulas intended to create specific results. everything in the “worthwhile and interesting” Just know which kind of attraction you’re deal- Agnes By TONY COCHRAN category will be outside the comfort zone. ing with. GEMINI (May 21-June 21) SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) When you taste happiness it makes you want You’re thinking of going to the next level with an more and more happiness, but happiness doesn’t endeavor. Would you still do it if no one else in work that way. Strange things happen when the world knew about your expertise? That’s how happiness compounds on itself. Savor sweet you know it’s worth your time. moments sans greed. Greed is ruinous. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) CANCER (June 22-July 22) You don’t have to apologize for taking care of There’s a gentle rage simmering in you today. someone you love, especially if that person This has to do with setting something right, not is you. Anyone who stands in the way of your only for you, but for the others and for everyone self-care is being unloving. Don’t be guilted into after. Until there is justice for all, there is justice neglecting what matters to you. for none. Dogs of C-Kennel By MICK & MASON MASTROIANNI & JOHNNY HART AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Feeling special isn’t about owning the best things, It can take a very long time to form the foun- getting the attention of a lot of people or having dation, products and momentum necessary to the love of one person. It’s about believing in your become an “overnight” success. Keep building, own specialness. little by little, day by day, every single day — no skipping. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Should you display your solidarity or your inde- VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) pendent thought? Yes to both. Timing is the Tell people about your interests and hobbies thing. Pay attention to sense when to meld with because letting people know what you’re all the group and when to enhance it through your about is a form of self-love. It allows for the world uniqueness. to mold to you a bit instead of you always having to mold to the world. Zack Hill By JOHN DEERING & JOHN NEWCOMBE Uranus and Venus Prepare for a Face-Off

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JOHN ROGERS somebody complained that he stakes out anything else you can think of. breakfast staples served with salsa and Associated Press space to sell chips, candy, drinks and other “No longer can we say that of the 10 champurrado. items in a park near a dam built in 1940 to major cities, Los Angeles is last. That was She’s on the street by 4 a.m., in time to It was his 63rd birthday but instead prevent flooding in the San Fernando Valley. embarrassing,” Blumenfield said. catch the big breakfast eaters — construction of staying home to celebrate Wednesday, Passage of the ordinance takes away that How to handle street vending in LA has workers headed into downtown Los Angeles Andres Garcia got in his truck and drove risk but marks just the beginning of a new been debated for a decade, and Price noted from the East Side neighborhood of Boyle 25 miles to Los Angeles City Hall to see the day for street vendors. The city must still Wednesday it took five years to shepherd Heights. little sidewalk vending business he’s run for implement a system for issuing permits his ordinance to a vote. It might have taken “People can feel more comfortable just 15 years finally become legal. to vendors and to figure out how much to longer if the state Legislature hadn’t passed doing their job now and not being in fear of There, in the ornate City Council charge for them. its own street vendor law earlier this year having their stuff just thrown away,” she said. Chambers, he and more than 200 other “We need to make sure that these that would have superseded anything Los The mother of a 2-year-old daughter sidewalk vendors — “micro-entrepreneurs” permits don’t cost so much that they’re Angeles did if the city didn’t have its own she cradled during the hearing got into the as Councilman Curren Price Jr. calls them burdensome for the vendors,” Councilman regulations on the books by Jan. 1. business five years ago, when she says she — rose up to cheer, embrace one another Bob Blumenfield said. For now, the new city law will require was alone and broke. Things have gotten and shout in Spanish, “we won, we won,” At the same time, he and other officials vendors to stay at least three feet from one better since then. The work is hard, but the as the council voted 13-0 to legalize street added, the price must cover the cost of another, keep their areas clean, and not block money isn’t bad. vending in the nation’s second-largest city. issuing and enforcing the permits. sidewalks or inhibit people from entering “It pays the rent,” she says with a smile. “For us, it’s very important,” Garcia said Price says it will likely be a year before brick-and-mortar businesses. Selling illegal After the council vote, she and more of the LA street vendors whose numbers those details are hammered out and voted stuff such as pirated CDs or DVDs remains than 200 others, many wearing T-shirts have been estimated as high as 50,000. “If on. Leaders of the Los Angeles Street Vendor illegal. If food is sold, the vendor must have proclaiming, “Legalize Street Vending,” someone complains, the police, they could Campaign and other advocacy groups plan the required license from the Los Angeles streamed out of City Hall for a celebration come in and take everything from us. Make to take part in the discussion. County Department of Public Health. on the south lawn. Food vendors were us throw all our stuff away and we lose all Los Angeles will join New York, Chicago, Lourdes Madrigal and other vendors say waiting for them. our money for that day.” San Francisco, Philadelphia and other they already do those things. “Who wants a churro,” Price shouted In recent years, police have often looked metropolises in regulating street vendors Six days a week, she rises before dawn triumphantly as other offerings — shaved the other way, he said, but he has been who sell everything from toys to tacos, to fill her pushcart with her freshly made ice, tropical drinks, chili dogs — went on hassled more than once in the past when T-shirts to cellphones and just about tamales, tortas, burritos, oatmeal and other sale nearby. Pelosi nominated to reclaim As shutdown looms, Trump and speakership, still faces test GOP leaders discuss border wall LISA MASCARO of the Civil Rights Act to the Affordable Care MATTHEW DALY hasn’t even spent the $1.6 billion Congress AP Congressional Correspondent Act — before pivoting to his vision for the Associated Press approved in the current budget for the wall. future. With Republicans in control of the Nancy Pelosi was nominated by fellow “I’m focused on standing up for everyone With a partial government shutdown presidency, the House and the Senate, “a Democrats to be House speaker on — white, black, Latino, Asian, Native possible on Dec. 7, President Donald Trump shutdown is on their back,” Schumer said Wednesday, but she still faces a showdown American — every single American deserves has met with Republican leaders to hash out Tuesday. “Stick to the $1.6 billion.” vote when the full House convenes in January. us, here in the United States Congress to work, a spending plan that includes money for Democrats and GOP leaders struck a deal Pelosi entered the closed-door caucus Democrats and Republicans, on their behalf to Trump’s proposed border wall with Mexico. earlier this year to fund nearly three-fourths of election in an unusual position — running make their life better,” he said afterward. Trump is seeking $5 billion for the wall, the government into next year. Left undone, unopposed for the nomination despite Democrats voted to return their entire which he made a centerpiece of his 2016 however, is funding for the Department the clamor by some Democrats for new top leadership team, including Rep. Steny campaign and said Mexico would pay for, of Homeland Security, which oversees the leadership. The lopsided 203-32 tally showed Hoyer of Maryland in the No. 2 spot as and he is stepping up pressure on Congress border, and a few other agencies. They’re now both the weakness of her opposition but also majority leader and Rep. Jim Clyburn of to provide it. Trump said he would “totally running on stopgap funds set to expire Dec. 7. the challenges ahead. South Carolina in the No. 3 spot as whip. be willing” to shut down the government if Complicating border negotiations, The California Democrat has been deftly They were running unopposed. he doesn’t receive the wall money he wants. Democrats also want to protect special picking off opponents — including nine “The caucus is coming together,” House Republicans approved $5 billion counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation who announced their support as voting Clyburn said. for Trump’s wall in a key committee, but a into Russian election interference and any was underway — a trend she’ll need to In a letter to colleagues ahead of voting, bipartisan bill in the Senate allocates just possible coordination with Trump associates. accelerate to reach the 218-vote threshold Pelosi gave a nod to those clamoring for change. $1.6 billion for the border. “I didn’t know Robert Mueller needed for election when Democrats take control of “We all agree that history is in a hurry, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, protection,” McCarthy told reporters, adding the chamber in the new year. and we need to accelerate the pace of change R-Calif., called Tuesday’s White House that there’s “nothing out there” for Mueller “Are there dissenters? Yes,” the California in Congress,” she wrote, noting the “historic” meeting “very productive” and said Trump or Democrats to fear from Trump or his Democrat told reporters as the ballots were class of new first-term lawmakers, the largest “is very solid with where he wants to go and administration. “But I do know the southern being counted. “But I expect to have a since Watergate, who led Democrats to the what he needs to have a secure border.” end of our country needs protection.” powerful vote going forward.” majority in the midterm election. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., McCarthy, whose party lost more than three Pelosi was nominated by Rep. Joe Kennedy Pelosi’s opponents had pledged to usher took a hard line on the negotiations, saying dozen House seats in the midterm elections of Massachusetts, with no fewer than eight in a new era for Democrats. But one by one, Democrats will soon face a crucial question: earlier this month, urged Democrats to work with colleagues seconding the choice, including the powerful California congresswoman “Are they going to shut down the government Republicans on the wall and other legislation, Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, the civil rights picked off the would-be challengers and because they don’t want to keep America safe?” including a long-stalled farm bill, a new tax cut leader, and three newly elected lawmakers. smoothed skeptics. Trump said he is considering a backup package and criminal justice reform. As House Democrats met in private in Ahead of voting Wednesday, a deal was plan if Congress rejects his demand for the $5 “The election is over. Let’s put people the Capitol, they faced a simple “yes” or reached with the Problem Solvers Caucus, billion, possibly including the continued use of before politics,” McCarthy said. “We’ve got a “no” choice. a bipartisan group whose nine Democratic troops and razor wire to prevent migrants from problem before us. Let’s solve that problem.” A sign of the party’s mood emerged early members were withholding their support entering the country. He told The Washington Schumer said Democrats support strong as the House Democrats elected Rep. Hakeem as they pushed for rules changes to allow a Post that if he doesn’t get the money, there are border security and believe that $1.6 billion Jeffries of New York as caucus chairman, more open legislative process. other ways he could get it done. for border security, including physical elevating the charismatic 48-year-old from But another group against her, led by Rep. But he has expressed impatience. “I am barriers and technology along the U.S. the Congressional Black Caucus as a new Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, Rep. Tim firm,” he said in an interview published southern border, “is the right way to go.” generation of leaders pushes to the forefront. Ryan of Ohio and Rep. Kathleen Rice of New Wednesday in Politico. White House spokesman Hogan Gidley His slim victory in that race, 123-113, York, left the leader’s office empty-handed. “I don’t do anything ... just for political said Trump and GOP leaders discussed over veteran Rep. Barbara Lee of California, They asked Pelosi to publicly release her plans gain,” Trump said. “But I will tell you, a range of legislative priorities, including another influential member of the Black to transition out of leadership before the end of politically speaking, that issue is a total the California wildfires, the farm bill and Caucus, offered a window into the shifting the next term in 2020. She declined, they said. winner. People look at the border, they “the great need for border security at this landscape. Flanked by top progressive For now, there was no one willing, or look at the rush to the police, they look at crucial time,” as well as prison reform and leaders, Lee made her pitch during the closed able, to mount a serious campaign against the rock throwers and really hurting three the budget. The group also talked about session, drawing on the record number of her bid to reclaim the speaker’s job. people, three very brave border patrol folks Monday’s announcement by General Motors women, including minority women, who ran Pelosi still lacks the votes she’ll need in — I think that it’s a tremendous issue, but that it will shutter five plants and slash 14,000 for office and are entering the new Congress. January, when the new Congress convenes, much more importantly, is really needed. jobs in North America, Gidley said. The majority, though, went to Jeffries to ascend to the post. She’ll need 218 votes So, we have to have border security.” who used his speech to remind Democrats of in January, ld step up to the job. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Associated Press writer Jill Colvin contributed to their core accomplishments — from passage D-N.Y., said the Trump administration this report. 12 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2018 ADVERTISEMENT

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