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Greta Garbo, the “Furious Lesbian,” and a Classic Hollywood Love Triangle

In this exclusive excerpt from her new biography of the silent star, author Lois Banner explores the period in the early 1930s when Garbo was entangled with both the acting coach Salka Viertel and the glamorous writer Mercedes de Acosta.

BY LOIS BANNER

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

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reta Garbo began her acting career in her native Sweden and moved to Hollywood in 1925, where she quickly became one of the industry’s most beloved stars. She was in a relationship with her frequent co-star John Gilbert, who also served as her acting coach. At the dawn of the 1930s their relationship was over, but Garbo’s star remained on the rise.

After the break with John Gilbert, Garbo had no acting coach. In April 1930, a year after she and Gilbert parted, she found a new coach at a party at the director Ernst Lubitsch’s home, a center for the Hollywood German community, where she met Salka Viertel, a Berlin stage actress. Garbo and Salka spent most of the evening talking on the terrace. Salka, who was sixteen years older than Garbo, found her “hypersensitive, although of a steely resistance,” while her opinions about people were “just, sharp, and objective.”

Salka had come to Hollywood in 1928 from Berlin, at the age of thirty-one, with her husband, Berthold, and their three sons, David, Peter, and Christopher. Fox studios had hired Berthold, a writer and director known in Germany. Salka had been a successful actress in Berlin, but she was rarely cast in roles in Hollywood films; she was, she said, “too old” and “not beautiful enough.”

Garbo and Salka Viertel in a scene of the German version of Anna Christie (1930).BY METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER/DE CARVALHO COLLECTION/GETTY IMAGES.

Salka had a sensual glow. For several years she had an affair with her next-door neighbor, Oliver Garrett, a successful Hollywood screenwriter, who helped her navigate the ebbs and flows of Hollywood. She then had a long affair with Gottfried Reinhardt, the son of Max Reinhardt, the Berlin theatrical impresario. Gottfried was twenty years younger than she, but he was stocky, with a solemn manner, and they didn’t seem that different in age. The Viertels had an open marriage, and Berthold was so often in Europe and with other women that Gottfried often lived in her home and functioned as her husband. He worked as an assistant producer at MGM.

In 1929 the Viertels moved to a large house in Santa Monica Canyon, near the beach. Salka held Sunday afternoon get-togethers, with coffee and homemade cake, conversation, ping-pong, and walks on the beach. Garbo didn’t always attend Salka’s salons, partly because of attacks of shyness, but also because eventually she sometimes went to other Hollywood gatherings—at Vicki Baum’s home in Pacific Palisades, for example, a few miles up the coast from Santa Monica, or at director George Cukor’s home in the Hollywood Hills. Baum, from Berlin, wrote the novel on which Grand Hotel was based. Cukor, who was homosexual, held luncheons for gender-crossing friends. His home was a showpiece, with six acres of gardens terraced up a hill.

Salka often joined Garbo in hiking in the hills or swimming in the ocean early in the morning. Following Swedish practice, they swam in the nude. When together, they discussed films, the theater, literature, and their lives. Both Garbo and Salka wanted to return to Europe, but they felt they couldn’t. Garbo had her screen career and her drive to be financially independent, while Salka and the boys were dependent on Berthold, still employed by Hollywood studios. Jacques Feyder suggested that Salka play Marthy, the prostitute in Anna Christie, in MGM’s German version of the film, which he was to direct, and Garbo agreed. She and Salka grew close; Salka was the mother Garbo wanted; Garbo was the daughter in Salka’s family of males.

Fred Zinnemann, Berthold’s assistant, later an eminent Hollywood director, described Salka as “one of the world’s most generous and opinionated women,” and she dominated Garbo. At their meetings, Salka was the star and Garbo the audience. After reading a biography of Sweden’s Queen Christina, Salka suggested to Garbo that she play the queen in a biopic. Garbo agreed—and suggested that Salka write the screenplay. Salka wasn’t a writer, but Garbo knew that, at her request, Thalberg would partner Salka with MGM’s best writers. Garbo gave Salka a career—as a writer and an acting coach. Salka participated in writing the screenplays for Queen Christina and most of Garbo’s subsequent films. Deeply impressed by Salka, Garbo developed an abiding love for her. But Salka was never certain how she felt about Garbo.

Mercedes de AcostaBY NICKOLAS MURAY/ULLSTEIN BILD/GETTY IMAGES.

In the summer of 1931, while Garbo was making Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Salka was persuaded to introduce Garbo to Mercedes de Acosta, who had come to Hollywood to write a screenplay for Pola Negri—and to seduce Garbo. Mercedes had heard through the lesbian grapevine that Garbo wasn’t a lesbian, but she could easily become one. De Acosta, openly lesbian, had a reputation for skill as a lover, and she was on a mission to turn prominent actresses into lesbians. It’s not surprising that she wanted to meet Garbo, but Salka was worried about what might happen if that meeting took place.

Mercedes de Acosta, born to parents descended from the Spanish nobility, was raised in a wealthy section of New York’s West Side. She met celebrities through her sister Rita Lydig. Eighteen years older than Mercedes, Rita was a fabled beauty, a leader in New York high society, and a reformer who worked for women’s suffrage and birth control, as well as labor rights. The de Acosta family once had money, but Rita’s and Mercedes’s money came from their wealthy husbands.

Rita introduced Mercedes to her famous friends: the actress Sarah Bernhardt, the sculptor Auguste Rodin, Jack and Ethel Barrymore of the famed Barrymore acting family, and others. Raised a Catholic, Mercedes attended Catholic schools. In 1914 Vogue featured her as a New York debutante, and in 1920 she married Abram Poole, a New York society painter. She followed Rita into feminism, working for women’s suffrage and then for the Lucy Stone League, formed to persuade women to keep their maiden names after marriage, following the example of Lucy Stone, a leader in the nineteenth-century U.S. women’s movement.

Like Rita, Mercedes wore distinctive clothing, but she had her own style. She often wore capes, tricorne hats, and pointed shoes with silver buckles on them, looking like a pirate. She was also known for wearing a dark coat fitted at the waist, with wide lapels and a full skirt, designed by the Paris couturier Paul Poiret. Garbo liked the coat so much that she had a copy of it made for her. Mercedes dyed her hair black, painted her face white, and wore blood-red lipstick—prompting some people to call her “Madame Dracula.”

Mercedes wore only black and white clothes, so Garbo and Salka called her “Black and White.” Aldous Huxley described her as “a small but most exquisite woman, both in features and figure, and in the manner of her dress.” She was five feet four inches tall. Close to Cecil Beaton, she provided him with information about Garbo to use in his writing about her, until he and Garbo became close friends in the late 1940s.

Mercedes lived a dramatic life, engaging in what Cecil Beaton called “glorious enthusiasms.” She also had periods of deep depression. Until she was seven and saw the male sex organ, she thought she was a boy. Discovering her mistake devastated her, until she formed romantic friendships with girls and studied ancient Greek ideas of sex. She interpreted those ideas as suggesting that everyone has a masculine and a feminine side. She took up lesbianism as a cause. Cecil Beaton called her “a furious lesbian.”

Mercedes studied Hindu and Buddhist texts and followed Eastern mystics; her knowledge of Eastern religions was part of her attraction to Garbo, who continually looked for a spiritual path and never seemed to find one. And Mercedes always knew about the latest healers and remedies. She consulted Dr. Henry Bieler, who promoted vegetarianism. Not long after she met Mercedes, Garbo consulted Bieler and became a vegetarian.

Mercedes knew the two great dramatic actresses of the turn of the twentieth century: Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse. She had had affairs with prominent female performers, including Isadora Duncan, a founder of modern dance, who promoted dress reform; the English actress Eva La Gallienne, with whom she exchanged wedding rings; and the Russian actress Alla Nazimova. When Nazimova came to Hollywood in 1916 to act in films, she formed a Sapphic circle, which some say was called “the sewing circle.” Isadora Duncan wrote passionate poems to Mercedes, extolling her sexual ability and writing paeans to her beautiful white hands.

Once Salka introduced Mercedes to Garbo in July 1931, Garbo initially fell for this aristocrat, with her tales of famous friends, knowledge of Eastern religions, and skill at sex. After finishing Susan Lenox that summer, Garbo took Mercedes to a cabin on an island in a lake in the High Sierras, where they swam, caught fish, talked, and began an affair. Mercedes was known for her sexual skill and Garbo for “the unbounded freedom of her life.”

After her trip to the High Sierras with Mercedes, Garbo displayed deep feelings for Salka, which suggests that the Sierra trip was a failure, that she was comparing Salka and Mercedes as friends and lovers, or that she was forming a triangle with the two of them. On September 18, which was Garbo’s birthday, she seduced Salka, who described what happened in a letter to Berthold—her confidante as well as her husband. Greta decorated her house with white gardenias, a symbol of femininity and of secret love. She served Champagne and played Sapphic songs on the gramophone. It was, according to Salka, “a gigantic temptation apparatus.” She concluded: “So we were together—it was harmonious and beautiful.”

By the late fall, Salka’s infatuation with Garbo had dissipated for a time, as Garbo became demanding. She was filming Mata Hari and spending time with Mercedes, in the first flush of their romance. Then, looking at Garbo one day, Salka realized that not only did she slouch but she also had a hump on her back. Salka wrote to Berthold, who was in New York, about the hump, but he replied that she should forget it because Garbo had influence in Hollywood and could damage his career. Salka stayed with Garbo as a close friend and mentor but kept her at a distance by having affairs with men, first with Oliver Garrett and then with Gottfried Reinhardt. After the episode of sex in 1931 between Garbo and Salka, there is no further evidence of sexual relations between them.

Greta Garbo as Anna Karenina and John Gilbert as Alexei Vronsky in a scene from the silent movie Love (1927). FROM BETTMANN/GETTY IMAGES.

Even before Mercedes appeared in Garbo’s life in the summer of 1931, there were references to Garbo’s presumed lesbianism in the Hollywood trade journals and in movie magazines. In 1929, Variety’s review of Garbo’s movie The Single Standard slyly referred to Garbo’s free love views. In January 1931, in a review of Garbo’s movie Inspiration, a Variety writer called her “one of the strangest personalities of all the freaks or odd ones that have littered Hollywood for years.” And Mercedes persuaded Garbo to become more open about her masculinity. The Hollywood Reporter, Hollywood’s first tabloid, was launched in 1930. On August 21, 1931, a month after Mercedes and Garbo met, the tabloid noted that “Greta Garbo has a new love.” On September 23, 1931, the tabloid referred to “an ambidextrous foreign star.” (“Ambidextrous” means being able to use either hand for tasks; it was then a common circumlocution for lesbians, homosexuals, and bisexuals.) The tabloid also referred to “the two Garbos.”

But Garbo was ambivalent about Mercedes. After Salka, in her subtle, poetic way, informed Garbo that they could be close friends, but not lovers, Garbo turned to Mercedes for sex. That action unleashed Mercedes’s obsessive nature, expressed in constant demands for deep expressions of love. After several months, Garbo fled to New York to get away from her. When she returned to Hollywood after a month away, she found Mercedes living in a house near hers. Ever after, when Garbo moved, Mercedes moved to a nearby house. Garbo wrote to Hörke Wachtmeister, a close friend in Sweden, that Mercedes made her nervous. She also disliked Mercedes’s love of gossip, and she was incensed when she learned that Mercedes told Cecil Beaton about her doings, which he then used in writing about her.

Mercedes and Salka didn’t like each other, which isn’t surprising. Mercedes didn’t attend Salka’s salons; she formed one of her own, which may have been a continuation of Alla Nazimova’s “sewing circle.” She also had an affair with Marlene Dietrich, Garbo’s major Hollywood rival. Garbo eventually forgave her this breach of faith; free-love principles permitted it and forbade jealousy. And Mercedes was lavish in spending on Garbo; she once had an elaborate gate built overnight around her mansion when Garbo mentioned a need for it.

Mercedes’s husband divorced her in 1935 and married his mistress, but he didn’t cut off his large stipend to Mercedes for years. It was her major source of income, financing the mansions she rented and her largesse to Garbo. But she was indomitable. When the stipend ended, she managed to find jobs editing and writing for small magazines, moving between New York and Paris. She became friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono and was often a guest at their Christmas celebrations. But when she died in 1968, she was destitute.

Garbo didn’t permanently break with Mercedes until her autobiography was published in 1960. Even though Mercedes hid their affair in a cloud of circumlocutions in the memoir, she included a photo she had taken of a topless Garbo on the island in the High Sierras. And her description of her research methods for the autobiography must have alarmed the perfectionist and secretive Garbo. Mercedes’s major source, she stated, was her memory. She had kept neither a diary nor a datebook, and when she wrote her appointments down on scraps of paper, she promptly lost them. She did keep letters written to her and other memorabilia; they are in her collection in the Rosenbach Museum in Philadelphia. The biographer can figure out a lot about their relationship from that collection, but far from all of it.

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California Case Study Houses

In January 1945 John Entenza, the editor and publisher of Arts & Architecture magazine, announced the Case Study Houses Program (CSHP), which was envisioned as a creative response to the impending building boom expected to follow the housing shortages of the Great Depression and World War II.

Case Study House #22 Los Angeles by Pierre Koenig | Photo © Julius Shulman

Entenza encouraged participating architects to use donated materials from industry and manufacturers to create low-cost, modern housing prototypes that might foster a dialogue between architectural professionals and laymen. The Case Study Houses were built between 1945-1966 mostly in LA by Richard Neutra, Raphael Soriano, Craig Ellwood, Charles and Ray Eames, Pierre Koenig and Eero Saarinen.

Case Study House #8 at the Pacific Palisades in LA. | Photo via Wikipedia

The Eames House is a landmark of mid-20th century modern Architecture and was constructed in 1949 by Charles & Ray Eames to serve as their home and studio.

The Eames House consists of two glass and steel rectangular boxes: one is a residence; one a working studio. | Photo © Herman Miller

The design was first sketched out by Charles Eames with Eero Saarinen in 1945 as a raised steel and glass box projecting out of the slope and spanning the entrance drive before cantilevering dramatically over the front yard.

The house emphasise connection to the desert landscape while offering shelter from harsh climatic conditions. | Photo via Blenheim Gang

The Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs was designed by Richard Neutra in 1946. It is one of the most important examples of International Style architecture in the United States.

With a simple rectangular design, the house is divided into two separate sections. | Photo via Urbipedia

The Case Study House #18b was the more successful in the series of Craig Ellwood. One of the most significant improvements was the preconstruction factory structure and combining this with other pre-built elements such as walls, floors. Another standard feature was the sliding doors in the living spaces of the house that overlooked the terrace and a pool for entertaining guests or family.

The design emphasizes harmony of materials and balance between interior and exterior through the use of terraces, water and skylights. | Photo via The City Project

In the Case Study House #21, an early-career exploration, Pierre Koenig used a constrained set of industrial materials—primarily steel and glass—to execute a pure expression of his design approach. His philosophy of functionality and honesty in aesthetics manifests in a structure that appears simple but contains complexity in plan and organization.

Case Study House #22 in the Hollywood Hills was designed by Pierre Koenig. The house is considered an iconic representation of modern architecture in Los Angeles during the 20th century.

The house was made famous by a photo of Julius Shulman showing two women leisurely sitting at a corner of the house with a panoramic view of the city through the floor-to-ceiling glass walls at night. | Photo © Julius Shulman

The highly publicized program ran from 1945 to 1964, spanning thirty-six individual designs, many of which were never constructed. The initial program announcement stated that “each house must be capable of duplication and in no sense be an individual performance” and that “the overall program will be general enough to be of practical assistance to the average American in search of a home in which he can afford to live.”

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moroccorug · 4 years ago

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yogaadvise · 4 years ago

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6 Modern-Day Meditation Leaders You Can Learn From

Throughout background, individuals have actually picked spiritual instructors to help them get to an extra extensive spiritual connection.

The term guru has been made prominent to describe our most recognized teachers. The Sanskrit word guru means "dispeller of darkness." Our understanding of masters in the West is fairly current, going back to 1893, when Americans were presented to the mentors of Swami Vivekananda. And for the previous 120 years approximately, various prominent masters have taught us concerning meditation.

Whether you're brand-new to the practice of meditation or currently have made it a day-to-day routine, below are 6 educators who you must understand about-- and can learn from.

Swami Vivekananda, 1863-1902

“Stand up for God, allowed the world go."

Born in India, Swami Vivekananda first ended up being recognized in the United States during the Chicago Parliament of Religions kept in Chicago in 1893. This was the very first time Americans had been subjected to a Hindu monk.

Vivekananda would go on to instruct Americans about Vedanta approach. His objective was to help the West understand India's spiritual society, and to link the space between both nations. He was well obtained and respected for his huge knowledge of Eastern and Western societies along with his empathy for humanity.

Even though Vivekananda died prior to age 40 as well as his public service only lasted 10 years, the impact of his message was widespread. He started the Ramakrishna Order of Monks, which is one of the most predominant spiritual orders of India. Vivekananda is likewise recognized for his four publications on Hindu philosophy: Jnana-Yoga, Bhakti-Yoga, Karma-Yoga, and Raja-Yoga. Learn a lot more about Swami Vivekananda.

Paramahansa Yogananda, 1893-1952

Read a little. Practice meditation a lot more. Consider God at all times."

Paramahansa Yogananda-- who is best known for his literary masterpiece Autobiography of a Yogi-- was birthed as Mukunda Lal Ghosh in Gorakhpur, India to a well-off Bengali family members. His moms and dads were adherents of Lahiri Mahasaya, that was known for reintroducing Kriya Yoga ( the scientific technique of God-realization via the practice of a details form of meditation) in modern India.

As a young male, Yogananda's teacher told him that he was the selected one to bring expertise of Kriya Yoga to America et cetera of the world.

In 1920, Yogananda had a divine vision that it was time to begin his mentors in America. Right after, he went to Calcutta, where he was invited to speak in Boston as India's delegate to an international congress of religious leaders. The same year, he founded the Self-Realization Fellowship in Boston to spread the understanding of Kriya Yoga exercise as well as meditation.

The seeds of Yogananda's mentors have survived on via his self-realization facilities, which are located around the globe. Numerous locations have attractive meditation yards such as Lake Temple Gardens in Pacific Palisades, California and the Encinitas Hermitage, Retreat as well as Gardens in Encinitas, The golden state. Discover extra regarding the Self-Realization Fellowship.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1918-2008

" The important thing is this: to be able, anytime, to sacrifice what we are wherefore we might come to be."

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who was a guru to numerous vocalists and Hollywood celebrities in the 1960s, became curious about a spiritual path after obtaining his Master's level in physics at Allahabad College in 1940.

After researching under master, Swami Bramananda Saraswati, he started the Spiritual Regeneration Motion as well as his globe trip to show meditation. He named his technique Transcendental Meditation and also increased his mentors to the UK as well as the U.S.

In 1961, he established his initial International instructor training program in Rishikesh, India, where meditators from around the world involved discover just how to show Transcendental Reflection. In 1971, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi founded his very first worldwide college, now situated in Fairfield, Iowa. There are greater than 5 million meditators that have actually learned as well as exercised the Transcendental Meditation strategy. Discover more about Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, 1956-present

" You need to await any type of difficulty. This readiness will make you pleased."

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, understood as a spiritual leader and also an ambassador of peace, founded The Art of Living Foundation as well as created the Sudarshan Kriya breathing technique.

Born in India, Sri (as his fans passionately call him) was a talented child that had the ability to recite parts of the Bhagavad Gita by age four. Sri holds levels in both Vedic literature and physics.

His goal is to educate people exactly how to live a worry-free life via The Art of Living Courses, which include breathing methods, reflection, yoga exercise, as well as pointers for daily living.

In 1997, Sri established the International Association for Human Worths (IAHV), a humanitarian company with a vision to boost human values. IAHV supplies disaster-relief funds throughout the world and also includes programs such as detainee rehabilitation and also injury relief for veterans.

As ambassador of tranquility, Sri has actually brought a message of non-violence as well as conflict resolution to nations such as Iraq, as well as the Indian states of Kashmir as well as Bihar. Discover more concerning Sri Ravi Shankar as well as his tour timetable.

Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi), 1953-present

" Our greatest, crucial duty in this world is to assist our fellow beings."

Mata Amritanandamayi or Amma, which indicates "Mom" as her fans call her, is well-known world vast as the "embracing saint." When on trip, Amma occasionally invests as much as 22 hrs a day embracing people that involve her for recovery and blessings.

When Amma was 9 years of ages, her mother became unwell as well as she had to stop school to look after her siblings. She would certainly go door-to-door to request for food and also discovered the hardship and also suffering in her little town in India. Filled up with empathy, she would certainly provide apparel and food from her house to others. Also as a young lady, when she saw individuals full of pain and despair, she would welcome them. It was uncommon for a young, after that adolescent girl to supply love and caring hugs to strangers, particularly guys. Yet Amma continued her goal of love despite the objection. Amma was additionally commonly discovered practicing meditation as a child.

In her work, she and also her skilled volunteers have actually educated even more than 1.3 million individuals to practice meditation with her straightforward reflection method called Integrated Amrita Reflection (IAM).

Through her company, Embracing the World, Amma not just provides love and convenience, she repays with selfless solution (seva). Welcoming the World feeds 10 million bad people in India every year, has actually built 45,000 residences for the homeless, as well as has developed a 1,300-bed hospital in Kerala, India. Find out more concerning Amma's work.

Deepak Chopra, 1947-present

" I, of training course, meditate for 2 hrs every early morning. I awaken at 4 a.m. on a daily basis as well as I enjoy it."

Deepak Chopra, that began his profession as a medical doctor in Boston, is the author of even more than 80 publications, founder of the Chopra Center for Wellbeing, as well as owner of The Chopra Foundation.

Born in New Delhi, India, Dr. Chopra dreamt of coming to be an author. His father, a cardiologist, urged him to pursue medical research studies. As chief of medication at New England Memorial Medical facility, Deepak became significantly irritated with Western medication. He experienced patients that just wanted alleviation through prescription medications. He started studying different medication, satisfied meditation master, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi with whom he learned Transcendental Reflection, and also began an effective career in natural medicine as well as all natural practices.

In 1996, he as well as Dr. David Simon started the Chopra Facility for Wellness in La Jolla. His publication Ageless Body, Timeless Mind relocated him to celeb status after it sold one million duplicates in hardcover. Drs. Chopra and Simon formed the Primordial Sound Meditation technique rooted in the ancient Vedic tradition of India. Although the origins of this mantra-based reflection method have been around for countless years, Dr. Chopra has mentored and educated hundreds of modern meditators, including lots of Hollywood celebrities, amongst them the late Michael Jackson. Find out more concerning Deepak.

Even if you do not follow a specific meditation educator, reviewing them and their lives, reviewing their books, and paying attention to their talks can influence you to elevate your level of consciousness.

#kriya yoga #meditation #spiritual #spiritual connection #yoga

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luxehome2b-blog · 5 years ago

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Most people feel more at ease in the familiarity of their own home, where family and the things they love surround them. Home care allows individuals the luxury to be at home and live as independently as possible through long-term care. The main objective of home care is to provide in-home care services for those who need assistance with every day activities of daily living (ADL), irrespective of age or disability.

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beverlyhillsluxuryinteriors · 2 years ago

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losangelesleftygayvoters · 6 years ago

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Analysis/Bios of the Judiciary Races

General Election, November 6. 2018

A note about these judicial votes: We more or less agree with “just say ‘yes’” approach put forth by the LA Times in this helpful article: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-endorsement-justices-20181004-story.html. You will note, though, that we have made one exception in our “no” vote for Supreme Court Justice Carol A. Corrigan, which we think she’s earned.

Supreme Court Justice Carol A. Corrigan: No

Corrigan is a former prosecutor who was appointed to the trial court and appellate positions by Republican governors. Gov. Schwarzenegger elevated her to the state Supreme Court in 2005. We’re parting from our “just say ‘yes’” policy because political science professors have scored her as having a conservative ideology and because she voted in favor of sustaining Prop 8. Us gays in 2018 like our right to marry, and we don’t feel compelled to retain a judge who doesn’t recognize that right.

Supreme Court Justice Leondra R. Kruger: Yes

Jerry Brown appointed Kruger, and no red flags have popped up in the meantime, so we’re cool with Kruger.

Court of Appeal Justice Victoria G. Chaney: Yes

In line with most of these judges, there’s not a lot of available information on Judge Chaney. She has a nursing and legal degrees and Google can’t seem to drag any skeletons out of her closet.

Court of Appeal Justice Helen Bendix: Yes

Bendix was appointed to the Municipal Court in ’97 and was elevated to the Superior Court in 2000, where she presided over constitutional, commercial, and personal injury cases, including a constitutional challenge to public pension rights, employment, real estate, intellectual property, and products liability cases. Bendix was appointed to her current gig on the appeals court by Governor Jerry Brown in April 2018.

She’s a twin who lost her father when she was a baby so she was brought up by her mother and grandmother (a department store clerk). She went to Cornell on scholarship and earned academic honors before going on to earn her law degree from Yale Law School.

After clerking LA for the Honorable Shirley Mount Hufstedler on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Bendix and her husband moved to DC for eight years, where she worked on a wide variety of legal matters, including an administrative appeal before the Supreme Court, negotiating an African agriculture treaty, obtaining refugee status for an employee of a South American embassy, and doing litigation on behalf of a subcontractor regarding construction of a major military hospital. She also started a program that provided free legal services to the elderly and others in need.

She has taught at various universities, won a bunch of awards, and is the author of several articles on civil procedure, alternative dispute resolution, and international law, and has served on a number of committees focused on diversity, governance issues, and alternative dispute resolution.

Bendix and her husband have three children and two grandchildren. And, get this, she is an avid musician who plays in the Palisades Symphony Orchestra and the LA Lawyers Philharmonic Orchestra. Also, there is an LA Lawyers Philharmonic Orchestra.

Court of Appeal Justice Elwood Lui: Yes

Lui was appointed by Gov. Brown in 2015. We’re down to retain him.

Court of Appeal Justice Victoria M. Chavez – YES

Chavez was appointed to the court by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in October 2005. Before her appointment, she had been a judge on the Los Angeles Superior Court since 1992. She’s got a husband and three kids and no baggage.

Court of Appeal Justice Luis A. Lavin: YES

Yep, Lavin can stay too.

Court of Appeal Justice Thomas Willhite: VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE ON THIS JUSTICE

UPDATED OCTOBER 27, 2018

After publishing our Voter’s Guide, we were made aware of something we’d previously missed that is tricky legal ground. Justice Willhite did overturn a rape conviction recently that gave us pause. In his opinion, Willhite was clear that he found the LAW to be wrong and outdated - he also urged the legislature to change it. There are articles about this that we wanted to provide for context because this is clearly rape, and Willhite’s upholding of the letter/spirit of the law here is up for some debate.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/03/california-rape-conviction-overturned-impersonation-sleeping-woman/1808221/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9781366/US-judge-forced-to-quash-mans-rape-conviction-because-victim-was-not-married.html

ORIGINAL TEXT: Thomas Willhite was apparently against confirming Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Us too. He can stay.

Court of Appeal Justice Haily Dhanidina: YES

Dhanidina was appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown and was previously a judge on the Supreme Court of Los Angeles County. He was the first American Muslim judge to be appointed to a California Court. Dhanidina has spoken openly about both the misguidedness of xenophobic bigotries as well as the necessity for public servants from underrepresented communities to serve as examples. He also served as a founding member of the Association of South Asian Prosecutors and a member of the Asia Pacific America and South Asia Bar Association.

Court of Appeal Justice Anne Egerton: YES

Egerton sat on the Superior Court before joining the Court of Appeal. Oh, and she was an NBC exec for ten years prior to that. Anyway, she can stay.

Court of Appeal Justice Nora M. Manella: YES

Manella was appointed to lower courts in California by Republican governors, but in 1994, she was, according to www.courts.ca.gov, “nominated by President Clinton to be the United States Attorney for the Central District of California. For five years she served as the chief federal law enforcement officer for the nation’s largest district, administering an office of over 240 lawyers in criminal and civil litigation throughout southern California.” Fancy.

Clinton again nominated Manella in 1998, this time as a United States District Judge, and she was unanimously confirmed by the US Senate (What? Remember when that happened?). She was appointed to the Court of Appeal by Schwarzenegger in 2006, and then this last summer, Jerry Brown elevated her to the role of Presiding Justice. She’s living proof that bipartisanship (or hopefully nonpartisanship) still exists in the judiciary.

If you want a skeptics view of her, though . . . a Google search for Manella’s name reveals a website called scamjudges.com that is dedicated to smearing judges of the appeals court, including Justice Manella (whose picture appears under a picture of fake dog turds). At closer examination, the website consists of just a single landing page where the unidentified author vents about a family spat related to a deed the author’s dead grandmother willed to his mom but was claimed by his uncle. And the aforementioned turd photos. By the bottom of the page, the anonymous author admits in one sentence that “this website should really be called scum-bag family members” instead of “scum judges.” Anyway. Write better wills, and vote yes on Manella.

Court of Appeal Justice Dorothy Kim: YES

In 2018, Gov. Brown appointed Dorothy Kim as an Associate Justice to the CA Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Five. She was unanimously confirmed by the Commission on Judicial Appointments. Prior to her appointment to the bench, Justice Kim served as a federal prosecutor at the US Attorney’s Office, where she specialized in cases involving fraud, environmental crimes, and public corruption. During her twelve years with the attorney’s office, Justice Kim served in several positions including as deputy chief of the Criminal Division. In 2007, she was awarded the attorney general’s Distinguished Service Award, for her work on environmental pollution reduction.

Justice Kim was born in Korea and grew up in Los Angeles. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell and began her legal career as a law clerk to Hon. Norman H. Stahl, at the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She also worked in private practice at Irell & Manella LLP. Justice Kim earned her law degree from Columbia University School of Law, where she received the Pauline Berman Heller Prize, awarded to the highest-ranked woman in the graduating class. ‘

Court of Appeal Justice Carl H. Moor: YES

Jerry Brown nominated him in February of this year. Let’s...like, sure. Keep going, Carl!

Court of Appeal Justice Lamar W. Baker: Yes

After quietly serving as special assistant and associate counsel to President Obama, Baker was appointed to the Court of Appeal in 2015. We’re happy to vote to retain him.

Court of Appeal Justice Arthur Gilbert: YES

As his name suggests, Arthur Gilbert is very old and very adorable. Dubbed “The Poet Laureate of the Court of Appeals,” Gilbert is known for being clear and thoughtful in his rulings and has received multiple awards from peer groups and legal associations. Reputable institutions ask him to teach other judges how to be judges, both nationally and internationally. More importantly, he’s been on the Court of Appeals for thirty-six years, which implies that he’s performing his role as it was intended to be performed—as an interpreter of laws, not as a legislator of them. So of course we say “yes.” And really, he’s adorable.

Court of Appeal Justice Martin J. Tangeman: YES

Jerry Brown appointed Tangeman in 2018, and we see no reason why he shouldn’t serve.

Court of Appeal Justice Gail R. Feuer: Yes

We’ve got no issue with Feuer either.

Court of Appeals Associate Justice John L. Segal: YES

Segal was appointed by Jerry Brown and unanimously confirmed by the Commission on Judicial Appointments. ’Nough said.

Judge of the Superior Court Tricia Bigelow: YES

Bigelow has had a pretty straightforward trajectory to the appeals court. She began as a deputy attorney general, then served on the Los Angeles Municipal Court before being promoted to the Los Angeles Superior Court. In 2008, she was appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger to her current role as presiding justice of Division Eight, all the while accumulating no red flags that should keep us from retaining her.

Bonus fact: According to Deadline Hollywood, Bigelow was on a three-judge panel in 2017 that ruled that Bill Cosby’s former lawyer should be kept on a defamation suit filed by Janice Dickenson. Neat.

And now, the races...

Judge of the Superior Court, Office 60: Holly L. Hancock

This race is a bit of a toss-up, as both candidates appear to be very qualified. The few endorsements we found mostly leaned toward Holly Hancock. Tony Cho, her opponent, has been described as an overachiever with caseloads of twenty to twenty-two per week across multiple courts in California. We’re giving the edge to Hancock, though, because of her view that too many young people are in jail and that judges can help fix this problem in many cases by handing down misdemeanors rather than felonies, where appropriate.‍‍

Judge of the Superior Court, Office 4: A. Veronica Sauceda

This race features two great candidates. Alfred A. Coletta was born and raised in LA, the son of immigrants. He has served as a deputy district attorney for thirty years with experience prosecuting criminal cases (including, interestingly, prosecuting attorneys and police officers). He received his B.S. in Environmental Health Science from Cal State LA in 1979 and his law degree from Western State University in 1986. Before turning to his law career, he was an aerospace engineer for Rockwell, working on the Space Shuttle Program and the investigation into the Challenger disaster.

A. Verónica Sauceda is currently a Superior Court commissioner assigned to the South-Central district where she is a “zealous advocate” for keeping families together. She is also the child of immigrants. She received her BA in Political Science and Chicana/o Studies and her Juris Doctor from UCLA. She then worked as an attorney at nonprofit legal service organizations for thirty years. She was elected as Superior Court Commissioner in 2015, doing traffic and family law. She’s collected an impressive number of endorsements from judges, lawyers, politicians, unions, and Democratic clubs.

Our decision: 2018 is the year of the woman, for many good reasons, and we’d be thrilled to see Sauceda fill this spot on the Superior Court.

Judge of Superior Court, Office 16: Patricia (Patti) Hunter

Patricia (Patti) Hunter is a criminal prosecutor dedicated to justice and public safety. Patti has three decades of courtroom experience, both civil and criminal. Her opponent, Sydne Jane Michel, is a criminal prosecutor and defense attorney. Both candidates have been lawyers for years and praise themselves for focusing on public safety. However, Michel’s husband (attorney Chuck Michel) represents the NRA in high-profile litigation, and websites like calguns.net have thrown their support behind Michel. That makes us lean toward Patti Hunter.

Judge of the Superior Court, Office No. 113: Javier Perez

Michael Ribons launched his campaign by grossly inflating his litigation experience. Like, he was maybe near a courtroom a few times and that somehow became him “conducting hundreds of trials.” He’s since taken down the misleading statements and replaced them with, “Michael is a civil litigator with over two decades of experience in state and federal courts.” But like, save yourself the effor, Ribons. We’re going with Perez, who has been an actual career prosecutor with the LA District Attorney’s office.

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SMITH v. PALISADES NEWS

Originally published on v. PALISADES NEWS September 30, 2019

STEPHANIE SMITH, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. PALISADES NEWS et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division One.

Filed September 30, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jassy Vick Carolan, Jean-Paul Jassy and Elizabeth H. Baldridge for Defendants and Appellants.

Katie Townsend ; Davis Wright Tremaine, Kelli Sager , Rochelle Wilcox , and Nicolette Vairo for Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 21 Media Organizations as Amici Curiae for Defendants and Appellants.

Law Offices of Ben Eilenberg and Ben Eilenberg for Plaintiff and Respondent.

NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS

California Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for publication or ordered published, except as specified by rule 8.1115(b). This opinion has not been certified for publication or ordered published for purposes of rule 8.1115.

WEINGART, J.*

I. INTRODUCTION

Plaintiff Stephanie Smith is a mother of five young children, and lives in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. She also owns warehouses in the Inland Empire used for large scale marijuana farming, and before her cannabis real estate ventures was found guilty of performing liposuction without a license. After her warehouses and personal residence were raided by law enforcement, the mash-up of motherhood, prior criminal history, and large-scale cannabis production proved to be journalistic catnip. Numerous press articles appeared—locally, nationally, and overseas—talking about the police raids and describing Smith as a suburban mom and alleged drug “queenpin” who made millions in connection with a huge marijuana growing operation.

In response to the police activity and resulting press coverage, Smith issued several public statements. She also gave a press interview. She described herself as a well-known and recognized leader in large-scale cannabis real estate development. She denied any wrongdoing by her or her tenants. She argued that authorities were out of touch with modern thought about cannabis and needed to change their approach to stop thwarting the public’s embrace of legalization. She also embraced the term “queenpin” as complimenting her cannabis industry leadership.

After the initial flurry of press coverage and Smith’s public statements, defendant Palisades News (a small community newspaper in Smith’s residential neighborhood) published an article about Smith that largely referenced prior coverage from other, much larger, news organizations. Smith responded by suing Palisades News for defamation. Palisades News filed a special motion to strike under the anti-SLAPP statute.1 There being no dispute the Palisades News article involved protected activity, the trial court focused on whether Smith had shown the required probability of prevailing on her defamation claim. The court, believing Smith was not required to show Palisades News acted with actual malice, found she had demonstrated a prima facie case and declined to strike the claim. For the reasons explained below, we reverse.

II. BACKGROUND A. The Parties

Defendant Palisades News is published both in print and electronically. Defendant Sue Pascoe is the newspaper’s editor, and writes articles for the publication including the one about Smith at issue in this matter. Defendant Matt Sanderson also works for the newspaper, and was tangentially involved in publishing the article about Smith.

Plaintiff Smith holds herself out as a commercial real estate developer and landlord. While she does not operate a cannabis distribution business herself, she leases buildings to commercial cannabis operators. Smith has publicly commented that renting to cannabis businesses is more lucrative than renting to other tenants, with demand so high that in one instance she received triple the rent she initially asked. She previously worked as an office manager for a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon. Following patient complaints of botched operations, she was found guilty of a misdemeanor for assisting in liposuction procedures without a medical license. In 2013, she was sentenced to 3 years of probation.

B. The Law Enforcement Raid of Smith’s Properties and Subsequent News Coverage

On December 13, 2017, police raided three warehouse buildings belonging to Smith, as well as Smith’s home in Pacific Palisades. That same day, local television channel KTLA reported that police were stating the warehouses contained very large and sophisticated marijuana growing operations with tens of thousands of plants. KTLA also reported police said Smith paid for the buildings in cash, and that she had not obtained the required permits for a marijuana business. KTLA reported police were saying a search warrant was served at Smith’s home, that she was detained pending further investigation, and that police expected to arrest her.

Also on December 13, 2017, the local CBS News affiliate ran an article on its website under the headline “Mom, 43, Made Millions Per Month on Pot-Growing Operations, Police Say.” The article said “San Bernardino police busted a major marijuana grow operation” and that “officials say the drug kingpin behind the grow was actually a drug queen—and a mother from a ritzy Pacific Palisades neighborhood.” The article reported the operation had more than 24,000 plants, and that while this type of “huge operation is normally associated with a druglord, . . . this stash belonged to 43-year-old mom Stephanie Smith of Pacific Palisades, police said. Smith was making millions of dollars per month running the operation, sources said.”

The Associated Press reported on the raids on December 13 and 14, 2017. The December 13th article stated that tens of thousands of marijuana plants were seized from several locations in San Bernardino, including a building near police headquarters. The article further reported that Smith owned the buildings where the raids occurred, and that she was arrested on suspicion of illegally cultivating marijuana. The December 14th article said police “raided a weed `fortress’ on Wednesday, seizing 35,000 marijuana plants and shutting down an operation they believe was bringing in millions of dollars a month.” The article said that Smith owned the searched properties, but “she was not arrested or charged with a crime.”

On December 18, 2017, the Daily Mail (a United Kingdom newspaper) reported on the raids under the headline “EXCLUSIVE: California drug `Queenpin’ is spotted shopping for designer bikinis days after police seized 18,000lbs of marijuana from her multi-million dollar weed fortress which she says is a `proper business.’ “Smith gave an interview to DailyMailTV, saying she was going to get a license in San Bernardino once they were available. Smith asserted she ran a proper business, and therefore was not concerned about possible criminal charges or jail time. The Daily Mail also referenced Smith’s conduct and conviction in the liposuction matter. The San Bernardino Sun, The Washington Times, Miami Herald, Kansas City Star, Seattle Times, Daily Caller, and FoxNews.com also ran articles about the police raids, which repeated many of the statements above.

On December 20, 2017, Smith released an official statement. The statement, from which some later articles quoted, said Smith was “disappointed to explain that these military style raids are the way City leaders handle zoning issues,” and “[s]torming into my home and pointing assault weapons at me . . . because a building I own doesn’t have the proper zoning permits is not acceptable. . . . Attempting to smear me as an illicit drug lord is laughable for countless reasons, the least among them is that medical marijuana is legal and the voters in California have asked for over a decade that our representatives create laws that work for safe access—not work against it. . . . The raids on our local cannabis businesses, who want to be regulated and taxed and have asked repeatedly for local government to simply follow the laws approved by the citizens, is clearly out of step with the will of the voters and a sensationalized military response to a respected, peaceful female entrepreneur is an abuse of power. [¶] The age of prohibition has ended and I welcome a more sensible approach to cannabis regulation. Professionals in the cannabis industry, including landlords, growers, producers and processors, can only hope that the powers that be do not continue to react in such an expensive, heavily armed, and contradictory manner that directly thwarts the will of the majority of our citizens.” Smith also posted photos of the raid online, accompanied by a statement that “[r]aiding a woman and toddlers with SWAT in full gear and guns is absurd.” Various press outlets printed portions of this additional statement.

Smith made a further public statement on December 22, 2017 via Facebook where she embraced the description of her as a “queenpin”—”The government attempted to smear me as a #QueenPin. They thought associating me with cannabis would embarrass me. They were wrong. Being a leader in cannabis is no different than being a leader in any other legitimate industry. I accept the complement [sic]. I am a Queenpin indeed. . . .” Smith went on to give her own description of a “queenpin” as a “non-stop doer,” “advocate to many, and community leader,” and a “[s]trong, accomplished, determined fighter. . . .” She closed by asking if there are “[a]ny other Queen Pin’s out there?” with the hashtags #QueenPin, #MyRights, #Notavictim, #Survivor, and #SHARE.

C. The Palisades News Article

On January 2, 2018, the Palisades News published an article about Smith entitled “Palisadian Stephanie Smith Gains Marijuana Notoriety.” The article began by saying Smith “was busted on December 13 for operating an allegedly illegal marijuana-growing operation in San Bernardino.” The article went on to reference prior coverage, including from KTLA and CBS News. It noted that “[a]ccording to KTLA, police issued a search warrant for Smith at her home . . . and she was detained there. [¶] The case received national media attention, with headline writers calling the attractive 43-year-old a `queenpin.’ CBS News reporters said police reported that `the huge operation is normally associated with a drug lord’ and `Smith was making millions of dollars per month running the operation.'” The article also relayed that “KTLA reported that Smith had paid cash for two warehouses and a home for the operation.” It further discussed that “[t]his was not Stephanie Smith’s first brush with the law” and provided details about the prior liposuction matter.

The day after the Palisades News article, Smith made another public statement. The statement did not reference the Palisades News article. Smith described herself as “a well known and recognized leader in large-scale cannabis real estate development. . . .” She claimed “[t]he tenants in my buildings were compliant with the laws of the State of California and had applied for licenses from the City of San Bernardino multiple times only to have their applications rejected for technicalities. . . . In attempting to terrorize my family and smear me as an illicit drug lord, the Mayor [of San Bernardino] embarrassed himself and showed that he [is] out of touch with modern thought about [the] cannabis industry. . . .” Like her prior statements, the January 3, 2018 statement was reported in the press.

D. The Defamation Lawsuit

Smith did not serve Palisades News with a retraction demand within 20 days of the article’s publication, but asserts she did so later at some unspecified point in time.2 On March 14, 2018, Smith sued the Palisades News, Sue Pasco, and Matt Sanderson (collectively hereafter Palisades News) for libel/defamation, false light, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Smith did not sue any other news organization or reporter, including those organizations and reporters whose statements the Palisades News repeated in its coverage.

Smith claimed the Palisades News article contained three defamatory statements: (1) that she “was busted on December 13 for operating an allegedly illegal marijuana-growing operation in San Bernardino”; (2) that she was making “millions of dollars per month running the operation” and the operation was of a size normally associated with a “drug lord”; and (3) that Smith “paid cash for two warehouses and a home for the operation.” Smith claims these statements were false because she did not operate a cannabis business but was merely a landlord. Smith also asserts she did not make millions of dollars a month and did not pay for the operational sites in cash. She further alleged that to the extent the Palisades News was republishing information from other news organizations (which it largely was, including two of the three quoted statements she claimed were defamatory), the newspaper and its journalists knew or had reason to know of the falsity of the statements. Smith claimed the defamatory statements in the Palisades News caused disruptions to her business, and reputational harm with other Pacific Palisades residents.

E. The Ordinance Challenges

Soon after Smith filed the defamation action, two companies controlled by Smith filed suit in San Bernardino County challenging the cannabis ordinances of the cities of San Bernardino and Colton. Smith and her attorney both spoke to the press, and were quoted in articles about the lawsuits and the muddled legal landscape facing marijuana-related entrepreneurs in California following the passage of Proposition 64. The suits challenging the ordinances remained pending during the trial court’s consideration of the defamation claim against Palisades News. Smith also helped spearhead a petition to add an initiative to the City of San Bernardino’s November 2018 ballot concerning the City’s cannabis ordinances and encouraged city residents to vote in the upcoming election.

F. Defendants’ Anti-SLAPP Motion

Palisades News responded to Smith’s defamation lawsuit by filing a special motion to strike pursuant to the anti-SLAPP statute. After taking the matter under submission, the trial court issued a written ruling granting the motion as to the false light and intentional infliction of emotional distress claims, and denying it as to the defamation cause of action.3

The court found the complaint alleged protected conduct. It further found Smith “is a limited purpose public figure in connection with municipal ordinances governing marijuana facilities” because she sued the cities of San Bernardino and Colton over their ordinances, spoke to the press to advocate her position, and thereby interjected herself into that controversy. The court found Smith was not a limited purpose public figure for purposes of the defamation claim, however, because the Palisades News “article that Plaintiff is a marijuana operator did not pertain to the ordinances that were challenged by Plaintiff in her lawsuits.”

The court found Smith had made a prima facie showing that the statements were defamatory, and was not required to prove actual malice to survive the special motion to strike. Finding the burden shifted to defendants, the court found Palisades News failed to establish any affirmative defense at the special motion to strike stage.

Palisades News filed a timely notice of appeal. We have jurisdiction pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 904.1, subdivision (a)(13).4

III. DISCUSSION A. The Anti-SLAPP Statute and the Standard of Review

Our colleagues in Division Eight of this District recently summarized the application of the anti-SLAPP statute to a defamation cause of action in Dickinson v. Cosby (2019) 37 Cal.App.5th 1138 (Dickinson). We begin our analysis by quoting their cogent summary.

“The Legislature enacted the anti-SLAPP statute to address the societal ills caused by meritless lawsuits filed to chill the exercise of First Amendment rights. (§ 425.16, subd. (a).) The statute accomplishes this end by providing a special procedure for striking meritless, chilling claims at an early stage of litigation. (See § 425.16, subd. (b)(1); Rusheen v. Cohen (2006) 37 Cal.4th 1048, 1055-1056.)

“The anti-SLAPP statute establishes a two-step procedure to determine whether a claim should be stricken. In the first step, the court decides whether the movant has made a threshold showing that a challenged claim arises from statutorily-defined protected activity. (Rusheen v. Cohen, supra, 37 Cal.4th at p. 1056.) Here, the parties agree, as do we, that [Smith]’s defamation claim[ ] arise[s] from protected activities.5 We focus, therefore, on the second prong of the analysis: whether [Smith] has shown of probability of prevailing on her claims. (Navellier v. Sletten (2002) 29 Cal.4th 82, 88.)

“To show a probability of prevailing, the opposing party must demonstrate the claim is legally sufficient and supported by a sufficient prima facie showing of evidence to sustain a favorable judgment if the evidence it has submitted is credited. (Zamos v. Stroud (2004) 32 Cal.4th 958, 965.) `In deciding the question of potential merit, the trial court considers the pleadings and evidentiary submissions of both the plaintiff and the defendant (§ 425.16, subd. (b)(2)); though the court does not weigh the credibility or comparative probative strength of competing evidence, it should grant the motion if, as a matter of law, the defendant’s evidence supporting the motion defeats the plaintiff’s attempt to establish evidentiary support for the claim. [Citation.]’ [Citations.]’ (Taus v. Loftus (2007) 40 Cal.4th 683, 713-714.) We accept as true the evidence favorable to the plaintiff. Further, a plaintiff must establish only that the challenged claims have minimal merit to defeat an anti-SLAPP motion. (Soukup v. Law Offices of Herbert Hafif (2006) 39 Cal.4th 260, 291.)

“We review the denial of an anti-SLAPP motion de novo. (Park v. Board of Trustees of California State University (2017) 2 Cal.5th 1057, 1067.)” (Dickinson, supra, 37 Cal.App.5th at pp. 1154-1155, fn. omitted.)

B. Smith’s Has Not Demonstrated a Probability of Prevailing on Her Defamation Claim 1. Required Elements for Defamation

“A statement is not defamatory unless it can reasonably be viewed as declaring or implying a provably false factual assertion [citation], and it is apparent from the `context and tenor’ of the statement `that the [speaker] seriously is maintaining an assertion of actual fact.’ [Citation.] . . . `California law permits the defense of substantial truth,’ and thus a defendant is not liable `”`if the substance of the charge be proved true. . . .'”‘ `Put another way, the statement is not considered false unless it “would have a different effect on the mind of the reader from that which the . . . truth would have produced.”‘ [Citation.]” (Carver v. Bonds (2005) 135 Cal.App.4th 328, 344.)

A “private person need prove only negligence (rather than malice) to recover for defamation.” (Brown v. Kelly Broadcasting Co. (1989) 48 Cal.3d 711, 742.) However, “[w]hen a defamation action is brought by a public figure, the plaintiff, in order to recover damages, must show that the defendant acted with actual malice in publishing the defamatory communication.” (Denney v. Lawrence (1994) 22 Cal.App.4th 927, 933 (Denney).) Whether a plaintiff is a public figure is determined by the court. (Stolz v. KSFM 102 FM (1994) 30 Cal.App.4th 195, 203.)

2. Public Figure Test

In Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. (1974) 418 U.S. 323 (Gertz), the United States Supreme Court recognized two different categories of public figures. The first is the “all purpose” public figure who has “achiev[ed] such pervasive fame or notoriety that he becomes a public figure for all purposes and in all contexts.” (Id. at p. 351.) “For the most part those who attain [all-purpose public figure] status have assumed roles of especial prominence in the affairs of society. . . .” (Id. at p. 345.) Such status is not lightly assumed—for a plaintiff to be deemed an all-purpose public figure, there must be “clear evidence of general fame or notoriety in the community, and pervasive involvement in the affairs of society. . . .” (Id. at p. 352.) Neither party argues, nor does the record demonstrate, that Smith has the requisite level of fame, notoriety, or pervasive involvement in the affairs of society to be an all-purpose public figure.

The second category is the “limited purpose” or “vortex” public figure who “voluntarily injects himself or is drawn into a particular public controversy and thereby becomes a public figure for a limited range of issues.” (Gertz, supra, 418 U.S. at p. 351.) “Unlike the `all purpose’ public figure, the `limited purpose’ public figure loses certain protection for his reputation only to the extent that the allegedly defamatory communication relates to his role in a public controversy.” (Reader’s Digest Assn. v. Superior Court (1984) 37 Cal.3d 244, 253-254 (Reader’s Digest).)

3. Smith Is a Limited Public Figure

The trial court found Smith was a limited purpose public figure in connection with municipal ordinances governing marijuana facilities. It based that decision on Smith suing two municipalities over such ordinances and speaking to the press to advocate her position. We agree that Smith was a limited purpose public figure, but for different reasons. The trial court relied on Smith’s voluntary acts after the Palisades News article. It instead should have focused Smith’s acts before publication, and whether they made Smith a limited purpose public figure at the time the Palisades News article was published. We find Smith’s voluntary prepublication acts made Smith a limited purpose public figure, and for a public controversy broader than the one identified by the trial court.

To characterize a plaintiff as a limited purpose public figure, three elements must be present. First, “there must be a public controversy. . . .” (Gilbert v. Sykes (2007) 147 Cal.App.4th 13, 24.) Second, “the plaintiff must have undertaken some voluntary act through which he or she sought to influence resolution of the public issue.” (Ibid.) Third, “the alleged defamation must be germane to the plaintiff’s participation in the [public] controversy.” (Ibid.) We discuss each of these elements in turn.

a. Existence of a Public Controversy

A public controversy exists when the controversy at issue was debated publicly and had foreseeable and substantial ramifications for nonparticipants in the debate. (Gilbert v. Sykes, supra, 147 Cal.App.4th at p. 24.) Smith does not seriously dispute a public controversy exists here. For some time, there has been a significant and ongoing public debate regarding the legalization of cannabis, how legalization will impact local communities, and how best to regulate the manufacture and sale of cannabis to mitigate any adverse impacts on local communities and their residents. (E.g., Union of Medical Marijuana Patients, Inc. v. City of San Diego (2019) 7 Cal.5th 1171 [ordinance regulating location and operation of marijuana dispensaries “capable of causing indirect physical changes” to city environment and thus subject to environmental review]; City of Riverside v. Inland Empire Patients Health & Wellness Center, Inc. (2013) 56 Cal.4th 729, 762 [marijuana regulation is “an area that remains controversial”].)

b. Voluntary Acts to Influence Resolution of Public Controversy

To become a limited purpose public figure, a plaintiff must undertake some voluntary act through which he or she seeks to influence resolution of the public controversy. “It is not necessary to show that a plaintiff actually achieves prominence in the public debate. . . .” (Copp v. Paxton (1996) 45 Cal.App.4th 829, 845.) Instead, “it is sufficient that the plaintiff attempts to thrust him or herself into the public eye.” (Ampex Corp. v. Cargle (2005) 128 Cal.App.4th 1569, 1577 (Ampex).) Smith sought to do exactly that through her public statements following the raid and prior to the Palisades News publication. Smith’s public statements were not confined (as the trial court held) to challenging municipal ordinances, but were a much broader commentary on how laws regulating cannabis are applied and enforced, accompanied by advocacy for a different approach.

Smith contends her public statements were not voluntary because Palisades News forced her to respond to its defamatory and false reporting. It is true that “a defamation defendant cannot create a defense by creating a controversy from the content of defamatory statements” and “a plaintiff does not become a public figure simply by responding to defamatory statements. . . .” (Mosesian v. McClatchy Newspapers (1991) 233 Cal.App.3d 1685, 1702.) But Smith’s argument ignores the actual chronology of events. There was a public controversy regarding cannabis regulation before any alleged defamatory statements. Smith did not simply respond to the Palisades News article. Instead, she released multiple public statements seeking to influence public perception of the police raids and San Bernardino’s approach to cannabis businesses before Palisades News published its article.

Moreover, Smith’s comments preceding the Palisades News article did not just respond to prior press coverage but instead sought to address statements from city officials and influence public perception of the city’s enforcement efforts. These public statements gave Smith prominence in the public controversy concerning cannabis regulation. Smith acknowledged this fact, describing herself as a “well-known and recognized leader in large-scale cannabis real estate development” in a statement the day after the Palisades News article. Smith did not become a “well-known and recognized” figure overnight—her public recognition preexisted the Palisades News article and was not solely the result of the prior press coverage but also her public advocacy.

The lone authority on which Smith relies to claim she is not a limited purpose public figure is Time, Inc. v. Firestone (1975) 424 U.S. 448 (Firestone). In that case, a weekly news magazine published an article about a marital dissolution proceeding between the plaintiff wife and her husband, who were both wealthy and prominent socialites. The United States Supreme Court held the dissolution proceeding was not the type of public controversy to which Gertz referred in describing limited purpose public figures, but instead involved a private family matter. (Id. at p. 454.) Additionally, the wife did not voluntarily inject herself into a public forum—she had no alternative to using court proceedings if she wanted to get divorced. (Ibid.) While she held a few press conferences “in an attempt to satisfy inquiring reporters,” that did not convert her into a public figure. (Id. at p. 454, fn. 3.) The Court based this holding on (1) the fact the press interviews should have had no effect upon the merits of the legal dispute or its outcome, (2) no such effect was intended by the wife, and (3) the press conferences were not designed to inject the wife into “the forefront of some unrelated controversy in order to influence its resolution.” (Ibid.)

The facts here are quite different. Smith was the subject of public police investigation involving search warrants. As discussed above, the subject matter of that investigation—the regulation of cannabis businesses, and where and how they operate—are matters of public interest and controversy. Unlike the plaintiff in Firestone, who did not seek to influence the outcome of the court proceeding, Smith’s comments to the press attempted to impact the police investigation and city officials otherwise involved in that investigation. Her comments also injected Smith into the forefront of related controversies concerning cannabis in an attempt to influence their resolution in a way favorable to her and her business. Smith became a limited purpose public figure when she “actively and openly sought to influence public officials and in that manner affect the public decision process for determining the uses to which land in [San Bernardino] County may be put.” (Hofmann Co. v. E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. (1988) 202 Cal.App.3d 390, 404, abrogated in part on other grounds as recognized in Kahn v. Bower (1991) 232 Cal.App.3d 1599, 1606-1608.)

Smith’s public comments prior to the Palisades News article are much closer to the facts of Denney, supra, 22 Cal.App.4th 927 than Firestone. In Denney, the plaintiff’s identical twin brother committed a murder. The killing generated intense local media publicity because both brothers were sheriff’s deputies. The plaintiff gave the press a photograph to use in connection with a newspaper article and was interviewed twice by a reporter. After these actions, a local newspaper printed a letter to the editor the plaintiff alleged was defamatory. The Denney court found plaintiff was a limited purpose public figure because he “voluntarily involved himself in the public debate and attempted to influence public opinion” by promoting a version of facts favorable to his brother. (Denney, supra, 22 Cal.App.4th at pp. 934-936.)

Following the raid and in the days before the Palisades News article, Smith similarly voluntarily involved herself in the public debate and attempted to influence public opinion by promoting a version of the facts favorable to her. She complained “that these military style raids are the way City leaders handle zoning issues,” and that it was “not acceptable.” She asserted the police actions were “clearly out of step with the will of the voters,” and there needed to be “a more sensible approach to cannabis regulation” that did not “directly thwart[] the will of the majority of our citizens.” She claimed “[t]he tenants in my buildings were compliant with the laws of the State of California and had applied for licenses from the City of San Bernardino multiple times only to have their applications rejected for technicalities.” She expressed pride in “[b]eing a leader in cannabis” and “a Queenpin indeed.”

There are two rationales for the public figure doctrine. One, as discussed above, is that the individual has voluntarily exposed themselves to public scrutiny through their statements and actions, including the increased risk of injury from defamatory falsehood, and must accept the consequences. (Reader’s Digest, supra, 37 Cal.3d at p. 253; Stolz, supra, 30 Cal.App.4th at p. 203.) The second is that “[s]uch persons ordinarily enjoy considerably greater access than private individuals to the media and other channels of communication. This access in turn enables them to counter criticism and to expose the fallacies of defamatory statements.�� (Reader’s Digest, supra, 37 Cal.3d at p. 253.)

The record before us bears out the second rationale as well as the first. The press reported on Smith’s public statements before and contemporaneous with the Palisades News article. Following the Palisades News article, Smith continued to be able to publicize her views, including about the lawsuits challenging the San Bernardino and Colton ordinances. She additionally was featured in a favorable March 31, 2018 article in the Los Angeles Times (a publication with far greater reach in Los Angeles than the Palisades News) along with one of her prominent tenants, B-Real of multi-platinum hip-hop recording artists Cypress Hill, where she was able to respond to publicity surrounding the San Bernardino raids.

c. The Allegedly Defamatory Statements Were Germane to Smith’s Participation in the Controversy

Lastly, for the limited public figure doctrine to apply, the alleged defamatory statements must be germane to the plaintiff’s participation in the public controversy. The public controversy at issue (and into which Smith voluntarily injected herself) was much broader than simply municipal ordinances governing marijuana facilities. It encompassed who should operate such businesses, where those operations should take place, what type of permitting and regulatory process should exist for such operations, and how violations of regulations should be policed. The three allegedly defamatory statements were germane to this debate over the permitting process, law enforcement efforts surrounding that permitting process, and whether Smith was the type of individual worthy of licensure.

4. Smith Did Not Make a Prima Facie Showing of Malice

To survive a special motion to strike a defamation claim, a limited purpose public figure like Smith must establish the requisite probability that she can prove the allegedly defamatory statements were made with knowledge of their falsity, or with reckless disregard of their truth or falsity. (Ampex, supra, 128 Cal.App.4th at p. 1578.) Smith submitted no evidence, and does not contend, that Palisades News knew anything in the article was false. She instead argues Palisades News acted in reckless disregard of the truth or falsity of the allegedly defamatory statements.

For reckless disregard to exist, there must be sufficient evidence to permit the conclusion that Palisades News entertained serious doubts as to the truth of the statements it published. The ultimate issue is the good faith of the publisher. (Reader’s Digest, supra, 37 Cal.3d at p. 257.) The subjective belief of Palisades News concerning the truthfulness of the publication—that is, the attitude of Palisades News toward the truth or falsity of the material published and not its attitude toward Smith—is what matters. (Ibid.) As examples of actions not taken in good faith, the United States Supreme Court has given examples such as “where a story is fabricated by the defendant, is the product of his imagination, or is based wholly on an unverified anonymous telephone call.” (St. Amant v. Thompson (1968) 390 U.S. 727, 732.) Nor will a defense of good faith “be likely to prevail when the publisher’s allegations are so inherently improbable that only a reckless man would have put them in circulation. Likewise, recklessness may be found where there are obvious reasons to doubt the veracity of the informant or the accuracy of his reports.” (Ibid.)

Smith does not argue the Palisades News article was fabricated, the product of imagination, based on unverified anonymous tip, or that the content of the story was inherently improbable. The record shows that in making the three statements alleged to be defamatory, Palisades News relied on prior reporting from reputable organizations. Indeed, two of the identified statements were expressly attributed to those prior sources—KTLA and CBS—in the Palisades News article.

Instead, Smith argues reckless disregard can be inferred because Palisades News did no independent investigation. For example, it never attempted to contact Smith or the San Bernardino Police Department to determine if the allegations levied by the police were correct. Smith also points to inconsistencies in the prior press coverage (such as whether Smith was arrested, differences in how many others were arrested, and discrepancies in the number of plants allegedly in the warehouses) that she argues should have prompted a reasonable person to do independent investigation.

However, “reckless conduct is not measured by whether a reasonably prudent man would have published, or would have investigated before publishing.” (St. Amant v. Thompson, supra, 390 U.S. at p. 731.) “The failure to conduct a thorough and objective investigation, standing alone, does not prove actual malice. . . . A publisher does not have to investigate personally, but may rely on the investigation and conclusions of reputable sources. `Where the publication comes from a known reliable source and there is nothing in the circumstances to suggest inaccuracy, there is no duty to investigate.'” (Reader’s Digest, supra, 37 Cal.3d at pp. 258-259.) Moreover, the complained-of inconsistencies related to minor, collateral details about the raids.

Because Smith has not made the required showing of malice, we need not address whether she carried her burden to establish that the statements were false, that the Palisades News article caused the damages she alleges as opposed to the prior publicity, or other elements of her prima facie case. To survive a special motion to strike, Smith had to make a sufficient prima facie showing of facts sufficient to sustain a favorable judgment. (Navellier v. Sletten, supra, 29 Cal.4th at pp. 88-89.) Her failure to produce evidence of malice, one of the necessary elements of that prima facie showing, is fatal in and of itself.6

IV. DISPOSITION

The trial court’s order denying the special motion to strike is reversed. The matter is remanded with directions to grant the motion in full and enter judgment in Defendants’ favor. Defendants are awarded their costs on appeal.

ROTHSCHILD, P.J. and BENDIX, J., concurs.

FootNotes

* Judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court, assigned by the Chief Justice pursuant to article VI, section 6 of the California Constitution.1. “SLAPP stands for `Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation.'” (Lam v. Ngo (2001) 91 Cal.App.4th 832, 835, fn. 1.) For clarity, we refer to a “SLAPP” or “anti-SLAPP” motion as a “special motion to strike”—the language used in the statute (Code Civ. Proc., § 425.16, subd. (b)(1)).2. To recover general or punitive damages for any alleged libel, a plaintiff must request correction within 20 days of the statement(s) claimed to be libelous, and the publisher must refuse the request for correction. (Civ. Code, § 48a; Anschutz Entertainment Group, Inc. v. Snepp (2009) 171 Cal.App.4th 598, 640-641.)3. Smith filed a notice of appeal, but that appeal was dismissed on September 19, 2018 pursuant to California Rule of Court 8.100(c) for failure to pay the required filing fee. As Smith did not pursue appellate review of the claims struck by the trial court, we do not further address her false light and intentional infliction of emotional distress causes of action.4. All unspecified statutory references are to the Code of Civil Procedure.5. Section 425.16, subd. (e), specifies categories of protected activity. The Palisades News article included statements made in connection with an issue under consideration or review by an executive body (the San Bernardino Police Department) in an official proceeding authorized by law (a judicially authorized search warrant) (§ 425.16, subd. (e)(2)), statements made in a public forum in connection with an issue of public interest (§ 425.16, subd. (e)(3)) and conduct in furtherance of the exercise of the constitutional right of free speech in connection with an issue of public interest (§ 425.16, subd. (e)(4)).6. Given Smith’s failure to produce evidence of malice, we also decline to address amici curiae’s invitation to recognize a neutral reportage or wire service defense under California law.

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Can you pull over,” Jhené Aiko asks her driver before hopping out of the black Suburban, instructing me to take her place in the backseat.

It’s a hot August afternoon and we are riding along the Pacific Coast Highway to a destination only she knows while listening to her new album, “Trip.”

Surprise-released on Friday, “Trip” is the musical component to an ambitious multimedia project that also includes a short film and a poetry book – a “map,” as the singer-songwriter calls it, of her quest toward personal peace.

“I want you to feel,” Aiko says, turning up the volume.

The waves crashing against Zuma Beach whiz by as Aiko’s gentle voice fills the car. “How you like it up there? What’s your view from there,” she sings, envisioning a loved one traveling in the afterlife.

Intensely personal, “Trip” is the culmination of Aiko’s recent journeys toward enlightenment following the loss of her brother, Miyagi, who died of brain cancer in 2012.

“Since my brother's passing, I've been trying to navigate through my feelings,” the 29-year-old said after we reached our destination, the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine in the Pacific Palisades. “I distracted myself by keeping myself busy … and trying to escape to peaceful places, by any means necessary.”

Aiko says she searched for her brother’s love in other men and experimented with hallucinogenic drugs. “Hoping if I get high enough, I can reach him but they only [took] me further away,” she says.

Nothing worked, so she went on trips.

A week alone in Big Sur. Exploring the Big Island of Hawaii. Meditating in the Pacific Palisades. Floating through her mind with the aid of hallucinogenic mushrooms.

She was, she says, desperate to reconnect with a part of herself she forgot.

We all suffer from something. It's easier to go through something when you know you're not the only one going through pain.— Jhené Aiko on her new album, "Trip"

Jhene Aiko performing on the second night of the 2017 BET Experience at LA Live on June 23 at Staples Center. (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

“When I was born, my grampy gave me the nickname Penny. Penny is me in my purest and most authentic form,” Aiko explained. “Since 2012, I've been trying to get back to her. And through this process of making music, I’ve been rediscovering her.”

She ponders her existence with “Jukai” (named for a traditional Buddhist ceremony), sings of societal ills on “Oblivion (Creation),” offers a scathing send-off to an ex on “Never Call Me” and is joined by boyfriend Big Sean on throwback dance jam “OLLA (Only Lovers Left Alive).”

Longtime collaborators Fisticuffs executive produced the record with the singer and Amair Johnson with assists from Benny Blanco, Cashmere Cat, Key Wane and Trakgirl. Swae Lee, 6lack, Mali Music, Kurupt, Brandy, John Mayer and her 8-year-old daughter all guest on the album.

Ahead of the album, Aiko released the loosely autobiographical short film she co-wrote with Tracy Oliver (“Girls Trip”), also titled “Trip,” and this fall, Ulysses Press will publish “2Fish,” a book of her poetry.

The emptiness that accompanies loss, self-discovery, love and spiritual enlightenment inform the entire body of work.

“We all suffer from something. It's easier to go through something when you know you're not the only one going through pain,” she said. “I feel like people think it's a weakness to show they're sad, hurt or fearing something.

“I've never really thought of myself as an entertainer,” she continued. “This is healing for me and I would like it to be healing to other people — not a distraction.”

The child of a Japanese, Spanish and Dominican mother and black, Native American, German Jewish father, Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo grew up off Slauson Avenue, near Ladera Heights and Baldwin Hills, surrounded by music.

She watched her older sisters, Jamila and Miyoko, managed by their mother, navigate the industry as members of ’90s R&B group Gyrl. Her dad, a doctor and aspiring musician who was, she says, “in and out” of her life, converted part of the family home into a studio and wrote music.

By the time she was 13, Aiko had signed with Epic Records and was working on an album, but it never materialized. At 16, she asked to be released from her contract to finish high school, after which she enrolled in West Los Angeles College and worked as a waitress.

After the birth of her daughter Namiko Love (“child of the wave”) in 2008, Aiko decided to refocus on music.

She began collaborating with Top Dawg Entertainment’s cadre of rappers and appeared on pre-fame mixtapes from Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q and Ab-Soul.

But when a label head advised her to “sell” herself, Aiko found her artistic mission: “I would ‘sail’ myself rather than sell myself.”

Her self-released mixtape, 2011’s “Sailing Soul(s),” got everyone’s attention, racking up more than 300,000 downloads. As Miguel, Frank Ocean and the Weeknd earned buzz for their forward-looking R&B, Aiko emerged as one of the few women in the movement. Hip-hop producer No I.D. signed her to his Artium imprint through Def Jam.

Aiko’s ability to float between ethereal R&B melodies and rapping got her dubbed a “hip-hop Sade” with J. Cole, Wale, Big Sean, Drake and Common calling on her to bring sultry counters to their records.

Her EP “Sail Out” made a major splash on the charts and scored her three Grammy nominations in 2014, even as she was promoting her debut album, “Souled Out.”

The search for inner peace has always been at the core of Aiko’s music. She sings of heartbreak, loss and loneliness, but also the existential experiences, and she has made her philosophies a literal part of her, through tattoos that include a Japanese rising sun, a sprawling lotus blossom, Buddha, a favorite Bible verse, the wheel of Dharma, a penny, and the phrase “Why Aren’t You Smiling?” which were the last words her brother tweeted.

Watch Jhené Aiko's video for "While We're Young" from her new album "Trip."

Buddhism, which she embraced at 15, has helped her navigate the rockier aspects of fame; her romantic life has always been the source of much speculation (and her saucy guest verse on 2014’s “Post to Be” from Omarion caused a stir for a breezy reference to certain sex acts.)

“I would get all worked up because someone said something that was false. I remember being on tour with Drake and [a blog] posted I was pregnant with his baby,” she said and laughed. “I used to think it was entertainment, but then I realized a lot of young people on social media took those words as facts.”

Harder to tune out was the constant buzz after her union with producer Dot da Genius ended. The two married quietly in 2014 and separated the following year, with Aiko filing for divorce last summer. Her work with Dot da Genius appears on “Trip”: “That’s how life works,” she says with a shrug.

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Sustainable Fashion, Mavericks, Mystics, and Misfits: Americans Against the Grain, Nature Beyond Solitude

Climate awareness has morphed into all facets of our life. Recycle, Reuse, Repurpose, Renew have been “in the moment” words. Fortunately, the fashion industry is getting on board the movement as 10% of the world’s carbon emissions and 20% of the worlds’ water waste. Plus 85% of the world’s textiles end up in landfills or incinerated. How can we all be more sustainable and still be fashionable? Cynthia Brian visits her closet!

It’s Writer’s Wednesdays, and today Cynthia Brian interviews two fascinating authors:

Arthur Hoyle is a writer, educator, and independent filmmaker. His documentary films have won numerous awards and have aired on PBS. His second book, Mavericks, Mystics, and Misfits: Americans Against the Grain, takes the reader on a journey across American history through the lives of exemplary men and women whose stories capture the spirit of their time and place and reveal the American character.

John Seibert Farnsworth is a nature writer based in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. He is renown for writing about ecology from a storyteller’s perspective with a wry humor. His book, Nature Beyond Solitude, explores the communal experience of nature at five west-coast field stations during a six-month sabbatical where I assisted with their long-term ecological studies. Taking the form of field notes, the entire book was written in-situ, both from the place and the moment where the experience took place.

Bio: Arthur Hoyle is a writer, educator, and independent filmmaker. His documentary films have won numerous awards and have aired on PBS, and he received a media grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He received Bachelors and Masters Degrees in English from the University of California, Los Angeles, and taught English, coached tennis, and served as an administrator in independent schools. He currently volunteers as a naturalist in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, leading interpretive walks on Chumash Indian culture. His portrait of America, Mavericks, Mystics, and Misfits: Americans Against the Grain, was published March 24, 2020 by Sunbury Press. He lives in Pacific Palisades, California. www.arthurhoyle.com

Bio: Known for his wit and his unique perspectives on the natural world, John Seibert Farnsworth left academics to become a nature writer after 21 years in the classroom. Having studied literary natural history en route to earning his PhD, he now studies nature itself, and his approach is to write from nature rather than merely writing about it. Since being granted emeritus states from Santa Clara University in 2018, Farnsworth has authored two books, both published under the Comstock imprint of Cornell University Press. The first, Coves of Departure, narrates a decade of teaching, researching and exploring in the wilds of Baja, Mexico. His new book, Nature Beyond Solitude, provides a behind-the-scenes look at five west-coast field stations where long-term ecological studies are underway. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501747281/nature-beyond-solitude/

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