Pride Parade Is a Piece of Cake
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WWW.BEVERLYPRESS.COM INSIDE • LAUSD students rally for LGBTQ rights. pg. 5 Sunny, with • Poinsettia Park highs in the homelessness. low 80s pg. 6 Volume 28 No. 24 Serving the West Hollywood, Hancock Park, Beverly Hills and Wilshire Communities June 14, 2018 Communityn garden takes root June 16, at 10 a.m. Both meetings Mid City West asks n will be held in the Poinsettia Park PrideOfficials spoof Parade recent is a piece of cake residents if they ‘dig’ Recreation Center, 7341 garden idea Willoughby Ave., and the presenta- U.S. Supreme Court tion will be the same. decision involving By edwin folven David Sobel, chair of the Mid City West Community Council’s same-sex couple The Mid City West Community Sustainability Committee, said the By luke harold Council has proposed an idea for a community garden idea has been community garden at Poinsettia cultivated for the past few years but LA Pride Grand Marshal Park and is holding a meeting to the council hadn’t settled on a site. Michaela Mendelsohn, a trans- gather input from the public. Initially, the idea was to have it at gender activist, joined Los The first meeting will be held Pan Pacific Park, but the concept Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, tonight, June 14, at 7:30 p.m., with See Garden page 21 West Hollywood Mayor John a follow-up meeting on Saturday, Duran and thousands of parade- goers on Santa Monica Boulevard June 10 for the return of the Pride Parade. photo courtesy of LA Pride Last year’s Resist March was a Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (from left), Christopher Street West one time event, but the parade’s opening press conference paro- President Estevan Montemayor, Los Angeles City Councilman David died a recent U.S. Supreme Ryu, West Hollywood City Councilwoman Lindsey Horvath and Los Court decision between a baker Angeles City Councilman Mitch O’Farrell were among the thousands and same-sex couple. in attendance at the Pride Parade. Earlier this month, the court ruled in favor of Jack Phillips, Phillips on the grounds that the couples perched on top. owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop Colorado Civil Rights “It’s time to cut the cake for in Colorado and a devout Commission showed “hostility” equality because we believe in Christian, who refused to create toward him based on his religion. having our cake and our equal a cake for the couple’s wedding Mendelsohn cut into a five- rights too,” said Estevan celebration in 2012 due to his tiered white cake with a rainbow Montemayor, president of religious beliefs. The court’s rul- pattern striping the side, adorned Christopher Street West. “The photo by Edwin Folven ing affirmed LGBT rights, but with words such as “love” and Supreme Court may be telling A strip of grass at the east end of Poinsettia Park is being considered for “tolerance” and two same-sex the 7-2 decision sided with See Pride page 22 a community garden. Beverly Hills continues to nRobertson Lane project approved in WeHo Residents praise project for keeping ties prepare for Purple Line n Authority is scheduled to begin to building’s past School board worries construction for that portion of the subway in August 2020, Tao said. By luke harold about risks to students Metro has accounted for some of and faculty the concerns, he added, by making Decades ago, as a 19 year old By luke harold plans to install a sound barrier in West Hollywood’s burgeoning separating the two sides and air LGBT community, Mayor John With Purple Line Extension purifiers for all the classrooms. Duran discovered the lights, construction making its way According to the meeting’s music and men dancing in a through Beverly Hills, the city’s agenda, the board will hold a more communal horde every weekend school board is worried about the detailed discussion next month to at the Studio One nightclub on sound, air quality and other risks evaluate its options. Robertson Boulevard. For the posed to its portable classrooms Tao said the potential for issues first time in his life, he had found that some students are using as to arise presents more than a “his tribe.” districtwide construction contin- “maybe concern” for the district. “We found a sanctuary, we ues. Plans to relocate those class- “It has to be properly evaluat- found our home, we found a safe rooms would cost approximately ed,” he said. “And that’s why place, we found something that $7 million, district staff said at a we’re doing it here, so that people would change the rest of our photo courtesy of the city of West Hollywood June 7 Board of Education meet- can see what it is that the Board of lives,” Duran said at the City A rendering of the completed project shows the revitalized site of the ing. Education has been grappling with Council’s first meeting this Factory Building. “These portable classrooms for all these years.” month. “And it was in a bar.” were put in the lacrosse field, long The school district’s most recent By a 4-1 vote last week, the before we, the district, knew there lawsuit over the subway project City Council agreed to move for- 114 feet and up to nine stories. “A lot’s changed,” Duran said. was going to be a [construction] was filed on Jan. 26 in the U.S. ward with plans to convert the It’s located at 661-665 Robertson “What hasn’t changed, though, is laydown area next door,” said District Court for the Central historic Factory Building that Blvd. and 648 La Peer Drive. the nightlife of West Hollywood. Terry Tao, a district attorney. District of California, Western housed the club, and surrounding With the intent of the develop- And I watch it when I walk up “There was no anticipation until Division. The legal battle has also area, into a nearly two-acre, er to preserve the Factory and down Santa Monica literally last year that there was played out in the Ninth Circuit 258,000 square foot and 241- Building and pay homage to its Boulevard and Robertson, and I going to be a laydown area next Court of Appeals and Los Angeles room hotel project – including past, many residents told the see the young people, LGBT, door to the high school.” County Superior Court. retail, nightclub and restaurant council they’re excited for the The Los Angeles County space – standing approximately development’s future. See WeHo page 21 Metropolitan Transportation See Construction page 21 2 June 14, 2018 CALENDAR Park Labrea News/Beverly Press at the observatory. Fellini’s “The Nights of Cabiria.” Performance Dr. Andreas “Sweet Charity” was director Bob Faisst, a postdoc- Fosse’s colorful valentine to his then- toral researcher at wife, Broadway dancing phenomenon TheCapture Academy of Motion Pictures Arts Caltech, will dis- Gwen Verdon. 245 Charles E. Young and Sciences is holding “Acting and cuss techniques Drive East. reprise2.org. Performance Capture: A Revolution in and tricks Technology and Collaboration” on astronomers use Thursday, June 14 at 7:30 p.m. at the to find and study the first primordial Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly WeHo Pedals Class galaxies in universe. Tickets are $10 Learn about West Hollywood’s Hills. Co-hosted by actress CCH for members; $25 for nonmembers. “WeHo Pedals” programs at a month- Pounder and Oscar-winning visual 2800 E. Observatory Road. (213)473- ly bike share basics class on effects supervisor John Nelson, the 0879, foto.org. Thursday, June 21 from noon to 1:30 special program offers a behind-the- p.m. at the WeHo Pedals Bike Share scenes tour through the collaborative Hub, located on San Vicente and rapidly evolving world of perfor- Boulevard near the West Hollywood mance capture, which combines ani- PianoSpheresPianist Nic Gerpe will perform as part Library entrance. The class is free but mation, visual effects and live perfor- of a PianoSpheres concert on space is limited to 15 participants. mance. Tickets are $5. 8949 Wilshire Tuesday, June 19 at 8 p.m. in the Walk-up participants cannot be Blvd. oscars.org. Zipper Concert Hall. The concert fea- accommodated; advance reservations tures works by Miller, Corigliano, are required. (323)848-6868 or Ivanova, Wolfgang, Bansal, email [email protected]. Schankler, Saariaho and Higdon. IndependentIndie Films film lovers won’t want to Violinist Pasha Tseitlin will join miss screenings of “China Salesman,” Gerpe in the performance. Tickets are “Intersection” and “Counterfeiters” $35. 200 S. Grand Ave. pianospher- opening on Friday, June 15 at Arena estix.com. Cinelounge. “China Salesman” is an action/adventure film about a young Chinese information technology engi- neer who volunteers to go to North Criminal Record Africa and help the company he works for win a competition. “Intersection” ExpungementWest Hollywood is holding a is a crime/mystery film about a man “Criminal Record Clearing Project racked with guilt about a collision that and Gender Marking/Name Changes claimed his only child and a relation- photo courtesy of the Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra Legal Clinic” on Wednesday, June ship that changes his life. The Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra presents 13-year-old 20 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the “Counterfeiters” is a drama about a Plummer Park Community Center. violin prodigy Yirou Ronnie Zhang performing on Sunday, June 17 at 3 young man who creates a do-it-your- Legal advocates will help participants self method of counterfeiting money p.m. at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Culver City. Zhang will per- clear their or reduce records resulting to save his dying mother.