Old-fashioned film screening at a park
explores the weird and secret bits of SoCal that would excite even the most jaded Angelenos. He also covers mental health. Rinaudo, nicknamed “Professor Rinaudo” for his vast silent film knowledge, has spent his life preserving and screening silent classics.
His love of old films stretches back to when he was a kid in the 1950s.opens this weekend. And purists will probably want to catch it in a theater to experience it in all of its 70mm glory. But another film screening happens tonight at a park in La Crescenta.and founder of the nonprofit SCAAT or Silent Cinema Art and Technology.
“One time I was over there and Christopher Nolan was there and man they were hopping to it! ”, a special showcase of films from the era that usually takes place once a year. Tonight’s program includes Buster Keaton’sRinaudo, nicknamed “Professor Rinaudo” for his vast silent film knowledge, has spent his life preserving and screening silent classics. His love of old films stretches back to when he was a kid in the 1950s.
He even bought 99-cent reels at Sears and would host screenings for neighborhood kids. Tonight, he will follow in the tradition of the itinerant — or traveling — projectionists of the early 1900s, by cranking out this evening’s slate on a 1909 Power’s Motion Picture Machine Model 6, which started its life with an itinerant projectionist.
“I bought it from the great-grandchildren of the original owner. It was found in a chicken coop and did a total restoration,” Rinaudo said. I was lucky enough to see the hand-crank process in action at his home in La Crescenta earlier in the week.
“You have to crank at the camera man’s speed,” Rinaudo said. “You have to watch the action very closely … If it slows down, and it looks blurry then you need to speed up, because you’ll betray the camera man’s shutter. ”Rinaudo’s La Crescenta home isn’t just a showcase for his collection of antique film equipment. It also includes a 20-seat, 1910-style theater that he built.
The silent movie palace is complete with an alluring red curtain and period-specific, ornate light fixtures that he manufactured himself. It defies logic that this huge theater, complete with a second story balcony and projection room, fits in this residential space. But there’s more just below the theater, including an 800-pipe organ Rinaudo is working to restore so that music can accompany his film screenings.
“The pipe organ will of course add a new dimension to the theater. It’s an 11-rank Wurlitzer built in 1920. It was saved from the Covell Theater in Modesto, California,” Rinaudo said. The massive pipes of the Wurlitzer came to life thanks to a vintage air blower in the basement, their low tones enough to rattle your ribcage.
Rinaudo’s theater isn’t open to the public, but through his nonprofit, he’s thinking about how it can be preserved for all to enjoy. But you can catch his itinerant show at Two Strike Park in La Crescenta, usually once a year. And he's hoping to soon start screening films again at the Nethercutt Collection Museum in Sylmar.
"Eventually, all of this will go into the non-profit after my passing,” Rinaudo said. “I’m hoping to keep this as a private museum ... that will continue to educate and inspire younger people about our history. ”explores the weird and secret bits of SoCal that would excite even the most jaded Angelenos. He also covers mental health.
A new program that gives Angelenos on food assistance the option to have fresh produce delivered to their home has launched, serving a roughly 20 mile radius around the Atwater Village and Crenshaw farmers markets. , a non-profit that operates a chain of farmers markets focusing on customers who rely on food assistance, is behind the new Community Supported Agriculture box delivery program.
Food Access L.A. curates each box of produce from five to seven different vendors from the farmers market and takes on logistics of home delivery. The new produce delivery offering comes at a time of substantial change and uncertainty for nutrition assistance programs nationwide, after implementation of new federal requirements.
A new program that gives Angelenos on food assistance the option to have fresh produce delivered to their homes has launched, serving a roughly 20 mile radius around the Atwater Village and Crenshaw farmers markets. , a non-profit that operates a chain of farmers markets focusing on customers who rely on food assistance, is behind the new Community Supported Agriculture box delivery program.
Isabel Thottam, with Food Access LA, said she and her colleagues have spent the last three years or so working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and other groups to get approval for the delivery program to accept Electronic Benefit Transfer .
“What I’m excited about is just being able to give people that opportunity to choose,” Thottam told LAist. “If they want to get farmers market produce delivered and use their EBT that way, they should have that autonomy to make that decision,” Thottam, who directs the nonprofit’s EAT! Food Distribution program, said. Food Access L.A. curates each box of produce from five to seven different vendors from the farmers market and takes on logistics of home delivery.
Organizers said they anticipate delivering 20 to 30 boxes from the Atwater Village and Crenshaw farmers markets every week and expect it to be a welcome option for seniors, people with disabilities or other groups who may have difficulties getting out in-person to a farmers market.
“You know a lot of people do come to the markets with the ... mindset of ‘farmers markets are inaccessible, they’re for rich people, they’re not for me,’” Miguel Ceniceros, senior manager of benefits and incentives at Food Access L.A. , told LAist.
“Our job is really to dispel those myths. ” The new produce delivery offering comes at a time of substantial change and uncertainty for nutrition assistance programs nationwide. L.A. County could see more than 200,000 people at risk of losing their CalFresh benefits because of new work-requirement rules that went into effect last month targeting recipients like those between the ages of 55 to 64, unhoused people, and veterans.
“These changes are quite significant. Because our population of just those estimated impacted are way beyond some caseloads of other counties,” said Shawn Amiel, Division Chief with the L.A. County Department of Public Social Services.
“And it could really contribute to the food insecurity of so many people. ” Amiel said she and her colleagues are working now to educate people on possible exemptions and what the new requirements entail. In the meantime, Amiel welcomes opportunities like the new CSA box delivery.
“There’s a lot of uncertainty as we enter these policy changes having to be implemented,” Amiel said. “So any additional assistance, any additional opportunities to kind of spread out these funds as much as possible should be taken advantage of. ”Local ice cream chain Wanderlust Creamery offers a sweet relief from this week’s sweltering temperatures. From ube to mango sticky rice, its unique signature and seasonal flavors can be found across Los Angeles and Orange counties.
Founder and chef Adrienne Borlongan sat down withMany of the flavors are inspired by Borlongan’s Filipino-American heritage, including a best-selling ube malted crunch. Its menu also features flavors from the Middle East and Iceland, among others. Borlongan initially thought that she would be a nurse. But she later pivoted to a degree in food science and started making ice cream after a roommate brought home an ice cream maker.
Local ice cream chain Wanderlust Creamery offers a sweet relief from this week’s sweltering temperatures. From ube to mango sticky rice, its unique signature and seasonal flavors can be found across Los Angeles and Orange counties. Borlongan initially thought that she would be a nurse. But after spending two years completing nursing prerequisites, she pivoted to a degree in food science and worked as a bartender for almost a decade.
“And that kind of just snowballed into this crazy ice cream obsession,” Borlongan recalled. Wanderlust’s flavors come from places Borlongan has either traveled to or has on her travel bucket list. Many of the flavors are inspired by Borlongan’s Filipino-American heritage, including a best-selling ube malted crunch. It also features flavors like Ashta, a clotted cream from the Middle East.
You're encouraged to try as many samples as your heart desires. Wanderlust’s staff are trained to guide anyone through the flavors and talk you through options before you make a decision. Borlongan is working on innovating new flavors for the summer, including an ice cream based on Swedish candies. She’s trying to whip up a mixture that’s able to keep the gummies chewy while frozen in ice cream.
Wanderlust’s ice cream has less air compared to traditional ice cream, making it rich and creamy. Its seasonal menu items include Buontalenti, honey butter corn, Kaya toast, white peach verbena, Icelandic milk chocolate and Ashta. The local ice cream shop has locations in Atwater Village, Fairfax, Pasadena, Sawtelle, Venice, Irvine, Costa Mesa and Torrance. What should we try next?
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Mari Barke, photographed at the California Policy Center in Irvine in 2024. A judge has ordered Barke, who serves on Orange County's Board of Education, to pay steep penalties over omissions in her annual economic disclosure filings. Orange County Board of Education member Marilyn “Mari” Barke failed to report millions of dollars in assets and income in her annual economic disclosure filings over multiple years, according to a judge's ruling. : Barke was elected to the board in 2018.
Under the California Political Reform Act, local elected officials are required to disclose their income, investments and other assets. State court rules allow parties 15 days to file objections to the proposed decision. After that, the court will be able to enter a final judgment. If the ruling stands, Barke will have to pay nearly $82,000 in penalty fees, as well as attorneys’ fees, according to court documents.
The fees could amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars. An Orange County Superior Court judge this week found that Orange County Board of Education member Marilyn “Mari” Barke failed to report millions of dollars in assets and income in her annual economic disclosure filings over multiple years. Barke will have to pay nearly $82,000 in penalties, as well as attorneys’ fees, according to a proposed decision statement. The fees could amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
State court rules allow parties 15 days to file objections to the proposed decision. After that, the court will be able to enter a final judgment. Barke filed amended financial statements for 2018 through 2021, following a complaint by private citizen made in February 2023. The Fair Political Practices Commission in 2024 found Barke liable on 16 counts for failing to report that income.
Barke agreed to a settlement and paid a $3,200 penalty. The judge later found that the FPPC’s settlement did not fully address the “willfulness/recklessness” or “adequacy of corrective efforts,” according to the proposed decision statement from Orange County Superior Court Judge H. Shaina Colover.
According to the court records, Barke argued that the mistakes in her filings were because she was following the advice of her now ex-husband,, who she says advised her that the filings only needed to list economic interests if they conflicted with her role on the board. Lynne Riddle, a retired judge who filed the complaint, said in a statement that financial interest disclosures are critical to the public.
“When elected officials flout their disclosure obligations like this, it undermines the public's right to honest and ethical government,” stated Riddle, who has published op-eds about charter schools and the OC Board of Education. “The Court’s decision vindicates the public’s right to know what their elected officials are doing. ” Riddle said the ruling and penalties should send a clear message that elected officials cannot shirk their responsibilities to disclose their economic interests.
Barke’s lawyer, Mark Rosen, in a statement to LAist, said:"From the start, this case was a vendetta against Mrs. Barke because she supports charter schools.
" “As a first-time candidate, she made some technical mistakes in her forms with the Fair Political Practices Commission, and she freely admitted and corrected those mistakes and paid a fine,” Rosen said. “The anti-charter schools gang then piled on with this frivolous lawsuit. ”On Monday, Gov.
Gavin Newsom signed legislation that sets aside millions of dollars in state funds to fund rebates for residents who buy or lease a zero-emission vehicle — a category that includes battery-electric cars and hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicles. The MyFirstEV program has not yet started — and we don’t have an official start date either. State officials will reveal next month which car brands are actually included.
MyFirstEV discounts will only cover battery-electric cars and hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicles from automakers participating in the program. State officials will confirm next month which car companies are included. The state’s program — called “MyFirstEV” — comes a year after federal tax credits for EVs ended nationwide. First-time EV buyers can qualify for a $3,500 discount when buying or leasing a new electric vehicle, as long as the retail price is under $50,000.
If you’re looking for a used electric car, there’s still a price reduction available — a smaller one, however: $1,750 off for vehicles retailing for under $25,000. On Monday, Gov.
Gavin Newsom signed legislation that sets aside millions of dollars in state funds to fund rebates for residents who buy or lease a zero-emission vehicle — a category that includes battery-electric cars and First-time EV buyers can qualify for a $3,500 discount when buying or leasing a new electric vehicle, as long as the retail price is under $50,000. If you’re looking for a used electric car, there’s still a price reduction available — a smaller one, however: $1,750 off for vehicles retailing for under $25,000.
” — comes a year after President Donald Trump’s massive spending and tax plan known as the One Big Beautiful Billfederal tax credits for EVs nationwide. Previously, American consumers could claim a $7,500 tax credit after buying a new EV or $4,000 for used EVs.
Newsom said on Monday that as the federal government pulls back from supporting EVs, California would instead be “putting its foot on the accelerator” — and that the instant rebate program would “ it easier for families to drive clean, breathe clean, and keep more money in their pockets. ” The program has secured $270 million in funding — half of that from the state budget and the other from participating EV automakers.
One big thing to know: Despite the fanfare, the MyFirstEV program has not yet started — and we don’t have an official start date either. State officials will reveal next month which car brands are actually included, so don’t expect to receive this discount if you purchase an EV today. Only California residents who are buying or leasing an EV for the first time are eligible for this rebate.
And consumers will have to confirm that this is the first time they are buying or leasing an EV before taking their car home, said Lindsay Buckley, communications director of the California Air Resources Board, the agency tasked with managing the program.
“Participants will be required to sign a legal document declaring that this is in fact their first purchase or lease of an electric vehicle,” she said. “So if you’ve already bought or leased an electric vehicle in the past, then you wouldn’t be eligible for this program. ” Limiting the program to first-time buyers could actually help boost the popularity of EVs among people who have never bought them, said Scott Moura, a UC Berkeley professor of civil engineering.
“Providing incentive to people who have bought EVs before isn’t really adding to the number of people who purchase EVs,” he said. “The funds can be used most effectively if they’re targeted towards first-time EV buyers. ”No — there’s no application to fill out ahead of time. Once state officials announce that the MyFirstEV program has officially begun, all you need to do is go to a dealership of a participating automaker.
If you move forward with making a purchase or lease, confirm two things with the salesperson and the financing team:That there are still state funds available for this specific car brand. When federal EV rebates were available, buyers had to initially wait until they filed their taxes the year after buying their car to request this money back. But state officials say that folks interested in the FirstEV discount won’t have to wait so long.
“Once launched, Californians will be able to go down to participating automakers’ dealerships and access the rebates at the point of sale,” Buckley said. “They won’t have any delay in getting this discount. ”No — MyFirstEV discounts will only cover battery-electric cars and hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicles from automakers participating in the program. State officials will confirm next month which car companies are included.
But this means that if an EV brand you really want to purchase is not on the list, you won’t get the discount when buying or leasing the car. There’s also a price limit: The EV you choose must cost under $50,000 if it’s a new car, and $25,000 if it’s used. There is, however, ato this price rule if the automaker is headquartered in California — in which case the discounts will apply regardless of the manufacturer’s retail price.
More than aI’m really interested in this program. What should I do while I wait for it to open? While consumers wait for the program to begin, Buckley said they learn as much as they can about different EVs available on the market.
“Maybe head to a dealership and take a test drive of an electric vehicle that you’re eyeing,” she said. “We do expect this to be a popular program and for to get gobbled up pretty quickly” — so the more prepared you are when the program officially begins, the better. Potential buyers can also learn about what it takes to care for an EV, like how to find charging stations and battery maintenance.
No — funds will be divided equally among the participating automakers. However, there may be greater demand for some brands, which could mean that rebates may run out faster at some dealerships.
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