Palisadian-Post Serving the Community Since 1928 20 Pages Thursday, June 14, 2018 ◆ Pacific Palisades, California $1.50 And Here Anderson .Paak Brings Music Fans to Gateway Park Comes Hank’s Bar with a touch of Mort’s Photo courtesy of Caruso he community has welcomed from Las Vegas to Miami, was the pending arrival of the first founded by new Palisadian Tburger joint in the Palisades Vil- Bruce Bromberg and his brother lage: Hank’s, created by the Blue Eric. Hank’s is named after Rick Ribbon restaurant group, will of- Caruso’s late father, Henry. In fer “classic American food,” in- another sweet twist, the brothers cluding a wild mushroom burger have also asked Bobbie Farbe- and matzo ball soup, as well as row, widow of Mort Farberow, craft beers, cocktails and a Cal- the owner of Mort’s Deli, to help Photos by Christian Monterrosa ifornia-leaning wine list. There them revive a few items from the By CHRISTIAN MONTERROSA by participants. will also be a kid’s menu and an former neighborhood institution. Reporter Booths throughout the park were old-fashioned soda fountain. Hank’s will open in 100 days on also setup to show visitors how to be Blue Ribbon, which oper- Sept. 22. live performance by the revolu- environmentally conscious when re- ates more than 20 restaurants —JOHN HARLOW tionary hip-hop artist Anderson cycling their waste. A.Paak took Pacific Palisades by sur- “We are hosting Run for the prise on Friday, June 8, in Temescal Oceans with adidas to step out of Gateway Park. our routine, to take a deep breath and Alphabets Again As part of the Run for the Ocean to reflect on how important the sea campaign put on by adidas and Par- is for every one of us,” said Cyrill ley for the Oceans, local runners took Gutsch, founder of Parley for the on a 5K run through the canyon. The Oceans, in a press release. “And Insecure About Lack participants were given free snacks to show that millions of little steps from local food trucks, a reusable can make a huge difference for our water canteen, and were treated to movement.” the rhythmic entertainment of An- As hundreds of youthful runners of Security derson .Paak and the Free Nationals. and thousands of concertgoers from .Paak is an Oxnard native who all over LA flooded the park, the 9 By TRILBY BERESFORD is quickly rising through the music p.m. concert also raised concerns Reporter charts for his unmistakable sounds with nearby residents who were not of funk and hip-hop fusion. He is jamming along with the drummer. n experiment in resi- most known for singing and rapping But the concert proved to be a suc- dent-funded private security while playing the drums at the same cess and brought rare life to the Pali- Ahas come to an abrupt end in the time. sades after 7 p.m. Alphabet Streets. On patrol The event was the first of 12 ma- The event offered a glimpse of In April, Mara Security Solu- Photo courtesy of Erika Mosul jor running events across six cities a new Palisades that is increasingly tions was hired to perform a in the world. Adidas will be contrib- becoming a Westside hotspot for the nightly patrol around the Alphabet pily due to an auto-related “inci- uting $1 to the Parley Ocean Plastic youth of LA as an incoming Caruso Streets for a 30-day test period. dent.” program for every kilometer logged project promises new possibilities. The compact Scion iQ car be- This is believed to relate to came familiar to many of the 250 a 1 a.m. incident when the patrol residents who had committed to spotted and followed a van out pool-funding the operation, set to of the Alphabet Streets, believing initially cost $25 a month. it might be involved in auto part Wanted: A Thousand Good Palisadians Street coverage was expected theft, but it slipped away down to increase when more residents Chautauqua. By JOHN HARLOW in the Carlyle Hotel in New York contributed funds. “We did more than we were Editor-in-Chief before becoming director of the However, the contract was not paid for,” the Mara spokesman Diller-von Fürstenberg Family renewed—although Mara said it said. p to 1,000 Palisadians are to Foundation, is said to have in- carried on the patrols for a while The experimental security be “given” $10 each to do- vented the idea of updating char- after the test period. scheme was almost entirely or- Unate to the local good cause of itable giving at a very traditional A spokesman for the Grana- ganized by long-term resident their choice with the launch of a East Coast charity event—which da Hills-based security company, Saswati Ramaswami, who also or- potentially groundbreaking chari- he felt went on too long and di- only identifying himself as Alex, ganized a demonstration of Ring table phone app called Karma. verted too much energy from implied that the deal ended unhap- home protection video systems The app, due to be test- charity itself. Prince Alexander at the Pacific Palisades Woman’s launched exclusively in Pacific He also wanted to create Photo courtesy of Wikipedia Club. Palisades on July 4, has been un- something that would grow by When asked by the Palisa- derwritten by businessman Prince itself over decades to come—an THIS WEEK iN dian-Post what had gone wrong, Alexander von Fürstenberg, the honorable aspiration for a man Ramaswami said: “It should have son of fashion designer Diane von whose family of soldiers and been 16-hour surveillance shifts Fürstenberg, who was also raised bishops emerged in the bloodshed pali life rather than eight hours, but myself by his stepfather, media mogul of 13th century Swabia. and five or six other volunteers Barry Diller. To create Karma the founda- The Man Who could not collect money door to Karma has been designed by Your Karma score tion recruited a respected start-up Rediscovered America door promised by residents to some of the same team behind Photo courtesy of Karma entrepreneur, David Semerad of (Page 9) support that. The problem still re- well-known dating apps. San Francisco-based STRV Labs, mains.” It is designed to encourage nominational, with minimal cul- which has created more than 100 The area has been targeted by people to engage in “social good,” tural bias about what counts as mobile apps, including “below thieves specializing in removing by donating money or time, but good work. the hood” coding work on dating catalytic converters from under- with a twist: It contains an al- “The Palisades has a strong apps such as Tinder, J-Date and neath Prius models parked in the gorithm that measures the good sense of community, a very di- Surge. streets or driveways. works and registers them publicly verse population and is very com- “They bring people together, Despite higher public aware- on social feed in the form of cov- pact—so people who want to start and now, starting in the Palisades, ness, this spike in property crimes etable “karma points.” out by making the starter dona- we hope that Karma will do that has carried on. The big idea is to turn chari- tion of $10, which we hope they too,” Semerad said last week. Residents say that since many table giving into an online game, will match, all know which local The Karma team, backed FOOD REVIEW: live in homes built in the 1950s, as well as leveraging the desire to cause they want to support,” Hol- by Rabbi Zushe Cunin of the The Pikey Café & Bar they do not have the choice to be recognized by peers. It is not ly McKay, spokesman for Karma, Chabad, have set themselves a (Page 10) park in garages. Many are install- expected to appeal to anonymous told the Palisadian-Post. “After bold target—1,000 downloads on ing car alarms and Ring devices givers. that, we hope they get the habit.” the soft launch on July 4. after the latest crime spate. While the Fürstenbergs are Local good causes, whether After that it will go first na- Residents are hoping these is- based largely in New York, the it be Palisades Beautiful, Friends tional, and then, if it works, glob- sues will be raised at a forthcom- Palisades has been chosen as a of the Palisades Library or the al. ing meeting of the Pacific Pali- unique and discreet test-bed for Dillon Henry Foundation, are en- The national release will fol- sades Community Council, which Karma thanks to connections be- couraged to sign up as potential low on Aug. 8. 2018—because, is normally attended by represen- tween the family and the Chabad benefactors on the website, due apparently, the prince likes all tatives of Los Angeles Police De- Jewish Community Center of to start working on Wednesday, eights. Palisadians can check it partment. Pacific Palisades on Sunset—al- June 13. out or pre-register at karmaapp. though it aspires to be non-de- Alexander, who was raised org. Page 2 Palisadian-Post June 14, 2018 WEB TALK This week’s hottest topics on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram Palisadian-Post Palisadian Bruce Bromberg and his brother Eric will open Hank’s, a “casual modern American burger concept,” in Rick Caruso’s Palisades Village com- plex on Sept. 22 … The menu will offer wild mushroom burger, matzo ball OUT OF THE PAST soup, cocktails and beers, and a children’s menu, complete with an old-fash- ioned soda fountain.In a nostalgic twist, the brothers have also asked Bobbie March, 6, 1975 2¢ Farberow, wife of Mort Farberow, owner of Mort’s Deli, to help them revive 2¢ Your Two Cents’ Worth a few items from the former neighborhood institution.