WWW.BEVERLYPRESS.COM INSIDE • LAPD join students for Sunny with ‘Shop with temps in the a Cop • p. 6 high 70s Volume 26 No. 32 Serving the West Hollywood, Hancock Park, Beverly Hills and Wilshire Communities August 11, 2016 WeHo gears up to launch bike share Give your car a rest for n Program will feature 150 ‘smart bikes’ with n CicLAvia’sEvent’s first 5K run along 18th Wilshire starts festival before kickoff mobile app Boulevard from Grand Avenue to Western Avenue is considered one On Sunday, Aug. 14, Los of the friendliest for runners and On Tuesday – about 199 years Angeles will shut down 3.5 miles walkers and will take participants after the bicycle was invented – of one of its most historic corridors through downtown and Koreatown. West Hollywood kick-started its to celebrate the 18th CicLAvia The route doesn’t have a designated WeHo Pedals program to offer the event – a party that brings commu- start or finish line and people are mode of transportation to its citi- nity members together by giving up invited to begin at any point along zens with a few noticeable motorized vehicles for a day. the course. upgrades since the original CicLAvia is the nation’s largest CicLAvia events started in Los model. open street festival for people to Angeles in October 2010, but the With the bike share system’s walk, skate, bike, play and explore concept can be traced back to the full launch set to roll out on Aug. the neighborhoods of Los Angeles. 1970s, when an event named 30, WeHo Pedals will feature 150 Sunday’s route on Wilshire bright green “smart bikes” at 20 See CicLAvia page 21 stations. City officials launched the pilot phase on Tuesday by photo by Gregory Cornfield opening four of the docking sta- From left, West Hollywood Mayor Lauren Meister, senior planner Tiffany tions, and hosting a community preview at a station located at Robinson and Councilwoman Lindsey Horvath preview WeHo Pedals. West Hollywood City Hall. Elected officials, city staff and sponding smartphone app, riders tures were not available in 1817, community members took the can see where they are in the city Tiffany Robinson, a senior plan- bikes on test runs around the in real time while it maps out the ner for the city, explained block. route. The mobile app also tells Tuesday that the program is sim- The GPS-enabled bikes feature the rider how many bikes and ple to use and access. She and LED headlights and taillights, open racks are available at nearby other city staff demonstrated how eight gears, cargo baskets and a docking stations, and allows users to operate the docking station. locking mechanism. The screen to share ride information with When community members reg- on the bike displays ride time, dis- friends. ister, they receive a membership While these technological fea- photo by Aaron Blevins tance and cost. With a corre- See WeHo Pedals page 22 Riders enjoy a closed Wilshire Boulevard during a CicLAvia event in 2013. Dialogue with LAPD unites nBeverly Hills remembers Mayor Frank Fenton City’s flags fly at half-mast for community for peace community activist and public servant n Meeting promotes “We want our police On Thursday, Aug. 4, Frank Fenton – the only per- proactive measures department to son to hold the elected offices of mayor, school board member and city treasurer for Beverly Hills – died at against violence know that we are age 78. Fenton was a resident of Beverly Hills for more pro-police. than 40 years, served on the city council from 2005- We want them to 2009 and was mayor in 2009. He died of pneumonia To advocate for peace know that we after suffering from Parkinson’s Disease for eight throughout the community, offi- years. cers from the Los Angeles support them and “Former Mayor Fenton was an active community Police Department’s Wilshire we are behind them leader, civic activist and a successful finance profes- Division came together with 5,000 percent.” sional,” said Vice Mayor Nancy Krasne, in a statement residents Tuesday at a town hall on behalf of the Beverly Hills City Council. “He has meeting organized by Pastor always served this community in so many outstanding Charles Johnson of Cochran - Pastor Charles Johnson ways.” Avenue Baptist Church. Cochran Avenue Mayor John Mirisch said Fenton embodied the best Approximately 45 people Baptist Church characteristics of the city – grace, dignity and compas- gathered at the church to learn sion. Fenton is survived by his wife, Judie, and four chil- about police procedure and to er this summer in Louisiana and dren. Minnesota, and deadly sniper discuss ways law enforcement Judie said when Frank was a young child, his family courtesy of Beverly Hills City Hall and residents can work together attacks against police in Dallas lived in Germany during World War II. His uncles fled and Baton Rouge. Tuesday’s Former Beverly Hills Mayor Frank Fenton will likely be to improve the Wilshire com- the country, but Fenton’s father didn’t believe how bad remembered for championing community’s youth. munity. Johnson organized a meeting was another way to things were getting for Jewish families. Soon after, solidarity march from the start a positive dialogue that Nazis knocked on the door and threw his father in jail. 100 casualties. Fenton’s family survived and ended up church to the Wilshire Division Johnson hopes will quell vio- He was able to pay his way out, but it happened two in Switzerl, but they lost everything. in July to show the congrega- lence. more times before Fenton’s mother said it was time to The family went to the United States, and then to tion’s support of the LAPD after “We really want to have a go. In 1939, they boarded a Dutch ocean liner, the SS Cuba to join one of Fenton’s uncles and then Brazil. police-involved shootings earli- See LAPD page 22 Simon Bolivar, which hit a mine that led to more than See Fenton page 21 2 August 11, 2016 Park Labrea News/Beverly Press presented by the city of Beverly Hills 11 LACMA and Theatre 40. Self-guided tours of Exhibit Tour the Greystone Mansion’s first floor are oin scholar and photographer Dr. Calendar from 5 to 5:45 p.m. Tickets are $15; Paul Koudounaris on a tour of the $12 for students and seniors. 905 and development on Saturday, Aug. Los Angeles County Museum of Art Loma Vista Drive. (310)285-6830, J 13 at 9:30 a.m. in the West Hollywood exhibit “Guillermo del Toro: At Home www.beverlyhills.org/BHRegOnline. City Council Chambers. Former West with Monsters” on Thursday, Aug. 11 Hollywood Councilwoman Abbe at 7:30 p.m. Koudounaris, who was a Land, rent stabilization commissioner contributing author for the publication Josh Kurpies and architect Ric accompanying the exhibit, will dis- 15 WeHo Dance Fest Abramson will discuss affordable ultiplex Dance and the city of cuss the cultural history and signifi- housing development, state vs. local West Hollywood are holding the cance of monsters. Admission is free; policy and the city’s housing M“West Hollywood Dance Festival” run- reservations required. LACMA’s Art goals. 625 N. San Vicente Blvd. ning from Monday, Aug. 15 through of the Americas Building, 5905 (323)848-6460, www.weho.org. Saturday, Aug. 20 in Plummer Park’s Wilshire Blvd. (323)857-6000, Fiesta Hall. The festival celebrates the www.lacma.org. creativity of professional dance with Woodstock Photos classes, free community workshops and r. Musichead gallery presents a performances. The series will culmi- Classical Concert reception for “Baron Wolman: lassical music fans won’t want to nate with performances on Aug. 20 at 2 MThe Woodstock Years” on Saturday, and 8 p.m. in Fiesta Hall. 7377 Santa miss conductor Andrew Manze Aug. 13 from 7 to 10 p.m. The leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic Monica Blvd. Costs vary for events. C exhibit includes original pho- www.multiplexdance.org. in a performance of works by tographs from the Woodstock con- Beethoven and Schubert on Thursday, cert in 1969 and a curated selection Aug. 11 at 8 p.m. at the Hollywood of images from Wolman’s Rolling 16 LGBTQ Theater Bowl. Pianist Francesco Piemontesi Stone Magazine archive. The exhibit elebration Theatre presents “The will be the featured soloist on runs through Tuesday, Sept. 6. Fabulous Darshan” on Tuesday, Beethoven’s “Piano Concerto No. 4.” Tickets for the reception are $20; CAug. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the West Tickets start at $1. 2301 N. Highland reservations required. 7420 W. Hollywood City Council Chambers. Ave. www.hollywoodbowl.com. Sunset Blvd. (323)876-0042, Written by Bob Stewart, the play is set www.mrmusichead.com. in the mind of Ken Satchel, a middle- 12 Alfredo Rodríguez photo by Michael Helms Photography aged Broadway character actor with an he Eli and Edythe Broad Stage in As Straw Productions presents the world premiere of “As Straw Before encyclopedic knowledge of cult 14 Architecture Book movies. Satchel’s world is turned Santa Monica presents Cuban the Wind” running Saturday, Aug. 13 through Sunday, Sept. 4 at the hotographer Dan Chavkin will upside down when he decides to men- Tcomposer and jazz pianist Alfredo Ruby Theatre at The Complex in Hollywood. The play focuses on a sign and discuss his book “Unseen tor a young, high-strung actor named Rodríguez performing on Friday, Aug. Midcentury Desert Modern” on Filipina nurse who survives the trauma of World War II, only to discover P Stu.