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WEEKLY A proposed class action settlement has been reached in a Class Action lawsuit called South v. LA I ⁄⁄ RMG Sunset, Inc Case No. BC652905, claiming that certain restaurants in California added an CONTENTS undisclosed state living wage surcharge onto restaurant bills. WHO IS INVOLVED? You are a class member if you purchased food and/or beverages at any Cabo Cantina, Baja 11:38 AM PST 2/28/18 SB Updated: PST 3:45 pm 2/27/18 SB Created: Count:401 4.4792 x 5.2292” Area: Live Word Publication: Master v RMG File 8/9 Name:South Size: Body Font Beach Café, Fiesta Cantina, PB Cantina, Jameson’s Irish Pub or Sunset Trocadero Lounge (collectively, the “Restaurants”) at any time between January 1, 2012 and May 31, 2017, and paid an undisclosed state living wage surcharge. 13 WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS? Class Members that have receipts will be eligible for a full refund of the surcharge paid. Class Members without receipts will be eligible to receive a voucher for 10% off a future purchase, or a $3 check. WHAT ARE MY OPTIONS? If you are a class member, you must submit a claim online or by mail postmarked by May 21, 2018, to receive either the full refund, $3 check, or 10% voucher. If you do not want to participate, you may exclude yourself from the class by April 30, 2018. If you exclude yourself, Measurements Mechanical you will not receive any benets, but you will keep your right to sue the Restaurants on your own for claims relating to the surcharge. You may also stay in the class and object to any part of the Settlement by April 30, 2018. If you do nothing, you will not receive benets but you will still be bound by the Court’s decision regarding these claims. www.laweekly.com www.laweekly.com // March 9 - 15, 2018 A nal approval hearing will take place on June 18, 2018, at 11:00 a.m. in Dept. 308 of The Los Angeles Superior Court located at 600 Commonwealth Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90005, to determine the fairness, adequacy, and reasonableness of the settlement; whether to approve the settlement; and attorneys’ fees and costs and class representative awards. The motion for Std Lt Times Body Font: 11/10 Size: Headline Calibri Font: Headline attorneys’ fees and costs will be posted on the website after they are led. You may attend the hearing, but you don’t have to. This is only a summary. For more information or to le a claim, go to any of the Restaurants, or visit www.SouthSurchargeSettlement.com. www.SouthSurchargeSettlement.com classic A Streetcar Named Desire explores GO LA... questions of race, power and privilege. Festivals celebrate art in Pasadena and BY DEBORAH KLUGMAN. entrepreneurial women in Lincoln Heights, Joshua Bell leads the Academy of St. Martin in FILM... the Fields and more to do and see in L.A. this APRIL WOLFE appreciates Ava DuVernay’s week. A Wrinkle in Time even without having read the book, and ALAN SCHERSTUHL is in raptures NEWS... about Andy Goldsworthy documentary Leaning Elderly and disabled Inglewood residents get Into the Wind, plus other movies OPENING THIS caught up in what appears to be a housing WEEK, and YOUR WEEKLY MOVIE TO-DO LIST. scam. BY JASMYNE CANNICK. In The Rollup, MADISON MARGOLIN attends the High Times MUSIC... 100 awards gala and muses on how cannabis Vince Staples still does things on his own terms. has become mainstream. BY SHIRLEY JU. Plus: listings for ROCK & POP, JAZZ & CLASSICAL and more. FEATURE... With ’Til Death and his Nike SB shoe release, Nyjah Huston is skating toward a bright future that might include the 2020 Summer Olympics. 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For The Joffrey Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet: fri 3/9 the kids, interactive glow-in-the-dark art See Friday. beckons at Kidspace Children’s Muse- DANCE/OPERA um. Pasadena City Hall, 100 N. Garfield Ave., Pasadena; Fri., March 9, 6-10 p.m.; Modern Love free. (626) 744-7887, artnightpasadena. The popular Jorey Ballet arrives with org. —Beige Luciano-Adams Polish choreographer Krzysztof Pastor’s contemporized Romeo and Juliet. Serge MUSIC Prokofiev’s score still puts the star- crossed lovers in Italy, but Pastor injects War Is Hell time-capsule shifts over the three acts. The 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam, Opening with Mussolini’s fascists in in which members of the U.S. Army the 1930s, the action moves to the Red slaughtered several hundred unarmed, Brigade and political kidnappings in the defenseless civilians, was a shock- ’70s, concluding with Silvio Berlusconi’s ing wake-up call for many Americans social upheaval in the ’90s. Along the who’d been raised to believe that the way, there’s even a ball that nods to West U.S. military were always the good guys PHOTO BY CHERYL MANN Side Story, perhaps the original contem- on the battlefield. Fifty years later, San Theatre and TCL Chinese Theatres, FASHION porary version of the doomed lovers. Francisco string musicians Kronos includes screenings of features, shorts, Originally set on the Scottish Ballet in Quartet revisit the scene of the tragedy documentaries and even musical Clothing Cornucopia 2008, Pastor’s version joined the Jof- via composer Jonathan Berger and comedy, discussions with directors, an The largest touring fashion show in frey repertoire in 2014. The spread-out librettist Harriet Scott Chessman’s new, episode of Showtime’s The Chi, film- the country, the SOCIETY Fashion performance schedule reflects the Jof- darkly stirring operatic collaboration, making workshops and a closing party Week attracts the best and brightest frey doing double duty, alternating with My Lai. Featuring tenor Rinde Eckert with a contest for one-minute movie working in the rag trade today. We’re another tale of star-crossed lovers danc- and Vietnamese multi-instrumentalist submissions. Egyptian Theatre, 6712 not talking just designers and models, ing John Neumeier’s choreography for Vân-Ánh Võ, the work tells the story Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood.; TCL Chi- either. This spectacle of style is geared the Los Angeles Opera’s performances of from the point of view of U.S. helicopter nese Theatres, 6925 Hollywood Blvd., toward everyone working in the cloth- Orpheus and Eurydice. Complete details pilot Hugh Thompson, who tried to save Hollywood.; Sat., March 10, noon-9:30 ing industry, from runway producers to on both productions at musiccenter. some of the victims. As with other recent p.m.; screenings $12; thru March 13. buyers who bring sartorial sensations org. Music Center Dorothy Chandler war-themed operatic experiments, such outfest.org. —Siran Babayan from the catwalk into the wardrobes of Pavilion, 135 N.