Hello, my name is John Cherwa and welcome back to our horse racing newsletter as we explore if these special Monday cards are worth it.

Here we have an added newsletter this week, which will be Tuesday, to look back at the special Columbus/Indigenous Peoples’ Day card at Santa Anita.

It got me thinking if these Monday cards, at the expense of a Thursday card, are really worth it for the track. So, I looked at the numbers for the last five years.

The answer is a resounding yes. Now, there are mitigating factors, such as promotions on the Monday card that include cheaper beer and hot dogs. I know it should be about the racing, but sometimes it’s about cheap beer.

I remember before the digital age, when print newspapers were more a part of everyone’s daily routine, the biggest circulation driver was never great journalism, but some kind of classified ad promotion like Wingo! Go figure.

Anyway, the difference between a Monday holiday card vs. a normal Thursday card is pretty astounding. (In case you forgot there is no Thursday card this week.)

So, let’s look at on-track attendance and all-sources handle.

2018

Monday (10/08) attendance: 5,546

Thursday (10/18) attendance: 3,441

Increase (Monday over Thursday): 61.2%

Monday handle: 7,283,335

Thursday handle: 4,917,872

Increase: 48.1%

2017

Monday (10/09) attendance: 4,927

Thursday (10/19) attendance: 3,131

Increase: 57.4%

Monday handle: 7,491,133

Thursday handle: 4,590,016

Increase: 63.2%

2016

Monday (10/10) attendance: 6,129

Thursday (10/28) attendance: 3,118

Increase: 96%

Monday handle: 6,865,201

Thursday handle: 4,464,836

Increase: 53.7%

2015

Monday (10/12) attendance: 5,475

Thursday (10/22) attendance: 3,231

Increase: 69.4%

Monday handle: 6,761,420

Thursday handle: 6,733,487

Increase: 0.4% (Have no idea what happened this year.)

2014

Monday (10/13) attendance: 3,486

Thursday (10/23) attendance: 2,473

Increase: 41%

Monday handle: 7,724,291

Thursday handle: 4,750,117

Increase: 62.6%

So, there’s your answer. Yes, the tracks would be happy if every Monday were a holiday and we would never see Thursday racing again. (Except at Del Mar in the summer.)

Santa Anita review

When last we saw Leucothea, she had unseated her jockey and was running toward reporters and photographers stationed in the winner’s circle. But that was during the Chandelier Stakes on opening day of the fall meeting. On Sunday, in the $75,000 Anoakia Stakes for 2-year-old fillies going six furlongs, she went to the lead and then dominated winning by 8 ½ lengths.

She paid $6.20, $3.00 and $2.40 for trainer Peter Miller and jockey Abel Cedillo. Shedaresthedevil was second and Éclair finished third.

Here’s what the winning connections had to say.

Ruben Alvarado (assistant to trainer Miller): “We weren’t worried about her leaving the gate today (referring to her last start) The next day, she seemed fine and she walked for a few days after that and everything was good. It was great to get Abel back on her [Sunday], he knows her very well.”

Abel Cedillo (winning jockey): “When this filly broke her maiden, she made the lead very easy. She doesn’t like you to take any hold of her, you just have to leave her alone and she does her job.”

Santa Anita preview

Monday’s card is eight races starting at 12:30 p.m. There are two allowance/optional claimers and three races on the turf. Overall, though, it’s a Thursday card on a holiday Monday. The field sizes aren’t great, but will be OK if there aren’t a lot of scratches.

We’ll call the seventh race the feature. It’s an allowance/OC over 5 ½ furlongs on the turf for fillies and mares. The purse is $53,000. You know, if you couldn’t see the conditions you would know it’s the feature because it only has five horses. The best race doesn’t always have the smallest fields but it sure seems that way.

OK, the favorite, at 9-5, is Storming Lady for trainer Alfredo Marquez and jockey Victor Espinoza. She has won three-of-seven races this year and earlier had won three in a row including one at this level.

Two of the five horses are second favorites at 2-1, both trained by Doug O’Neill. Smoovie has Abel Cedillo as her jockey. She’s won tree of eight this year, including an allowance last out. One of her other wins was an allowance. Travieza will have Rafael Bejarano in the saddle. She is winless in four tries this year. Last year she won the Unzip Me Stakes.

Here are the field sizes, in order: 6, 6, 6, 6, 8, 7, 5, 8.

Ciaran Thornton’s SA pick of the day

RACE FIVE: No. 4 Asaro (12-1)

Asaro last raced Aug. 7 at Del Mar at this distance and lost by a nose but was placed first in a DQ. First start since then this is a value I cannot believe we are getting. Regular works since then, so they may have been waiting for the perfect spot. Race is protected Monday with some sharp workouts that add to the appeal. Trainer Karen Headley is 17% off the bench. Jamming Eddie who was DQ to second in the race returned to win validating the race. 12-1 oh my!

Sunday’s result: Bootie under a great ride by Abel Cedillo sat second into the turn, took the lead but was swallowed up on the line to run third. Cedillo read the race perfect but was a smidge unlucky as were we.

Ciaran Thornton is the handicapper for Californiapick4.com, which offers daily full card picks, longshots of the day, best bets of the day.

Big races review

A look at graded stakes or races worth $100,000 on Sunday and late Saturday.

Late Saturday

Delta Downs (8): $100,000 Gold Cup Stakes, La-breds 3 and up, 1 mile. Winner: Trevilion ($9.60)

Sunday

Belmont (7): $100,000 Point of Entry Stakes, 3 and up, 1 ½ miles on turf. Winner: Red Knight ($7.20)

Woodbine (11): $100,000 Ruling Angel Stakes, fillies 3-years-old, 6 ½ furlongs. Winner: Gamble’s Candy ($24.40)

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Now, here’s the stars of the show, Sunday’s results and Monday’s entries.

Santa Anita Charts Results for Sunday, October 13.

Copyright 2019 by Equibase Company. Reproduction prohibited. Santa Anita, Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, California. 11th day of a 23-day meet. Clear & Fast

FIRST RACE.

5½ Furlongs. Purse: $50,000. Maiden Special Weight. 2 year olds. Time 22.27 45.76 58.14 1:04.60

Winner–High Velocity B.c.2 by Quality Road out of Ketel Twist, by Dixie Union. Bred by Dell Ridge Farm, LLC (KY). Trainer: Bob Baffert. Owner: West, Gary and Mary. Mutuel Pool $105,752 Exacta Pool $42,651 Superfecta Pool $16,934 Trifecta Pool $29,514. Scratched–Twirling Derby.

HIGH VELOCITY had speed outside then stalked off the rail, bid alongside the runner-up under some urging in midstretch, gained the advantage a sixteenth out and edged away late under steady handling. PRINCE MAGICIAN had speed inside then set the pace a bit off the rail leaving the backstretch and inside on the turn and into the stretch, fought back along the fence in midstretch, could not match the winner in the final sixteenth but bested the others. JEFFNJOHN’STHUNDR broke slowly, chased along the inside then a bit off the rail on the turn, came out some in the stretch and held third. MALIBU STAR a step slow to begin, chased between horses then outside a rival on the turn, came out into the stretch and was edged for the show. CALL ME DADDY also broke a bit slowly, chased outside a rival then three deep leaving the backstretch, leaned in and bumped a rival to briefly lose his action into the turn, dropped back off the rail and gave way.

SECOND RACE.

5½ Furlongs Turf. Purse: $50,000. Maiden Special Weight. 3 year olds and up. Time 22.44 45.00 56.29 1:02.29

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Winner–Big Runnuer B.c.4 by Stormy Atlantic out of Elusive Luci, by Elusive Quality. Bred by Mercedes Stables LLC (KY). Trainer: Victor L. Garcia. Owner: Juan J. Garcia. Mutuel Pool $183,897 Daily Double Pool $39,152 Exacta Pool $115,546 Superfecta Pool $51,636 Trifecta Pool $72,629 X-5 Super High Five Pool $8,793. Scratched–Tromador.

BIG RUNNUER broke a bit slowly and was bumped early, went up inside to duel for the lead, inched away on the turn, drew off under urging in the stretch and good handling late.nd. SHANDLING a step slow to begin, was shuffled back between horses early, angled in off the pace, split horses on the turn, came three wide into the stretch and edged a rival late for second. STABLE GENIUS had speed off the rail early, dueled between horses then outside the winner into the turn, stalked just off the rail on the turn and into the stretch, drifted inward in the final furlong and was edged late for the place. LINCOLN CITY was shuffled back a bit between foes midway on the backstretch, angled in and saved ground off the pace, came out for room in midstretch and deep stretch and bested the others. AWESOME SCORE had speed outside early, pressed the pace three deep then stalked off the rail, came three wide into the stretch and weakened. DEUCE chased between horses, split rivals in midstretch and lacked the needed rally. JOEYS ACE broke a bit slowly and bobbled in the opening strides then bumped a rival, saved ground stalking the pace, cut the corner into the stretch and could not offer the necessary response. LORD ADARE sent along to stalk the pace five wide then four wide, continued three deep on the turn and four wide into the stretch and did not rally. GOLDIE’S HILLS chased three wide between horses then off the rail on the turn, came four wide into the stretch and lacked a rally. INQUISITEUR stalked four wide between foes, then three deep into the turn, dropped back and angled in on the bend and weakened.

THIRD RACE.

1 Mile. Purse: $50,000. Maiden Special Weight. 2 year olds. Time 23.05 47.44 1:12.52 1:25.33 1:37.94

Winner–Honor A. P. Dbb.r.2 by Honor Code out of Hollywood Story, by Wild Rush. Bred by George Krikorian (KY). Trainer: John A. Shirreffs. Owner: C R K Stable LLC. Mutuel Pool $251,927 Daily Double Pool $26,794 Exacta Pool $127,461 Superfecta Pool $74,012 Super High Five Pool $14,471 Trifecta Pool $90,376. Scratched–Include the Tax.

50-Cent Pick Three (5-1-3) paid $17.10. Pick Three Pool $57,617.

HONOR A. P. had speed inside to set a pressured pace, inched away on the second turn and drew clear in the final furlong under a couple backhanded taps of the whip and steady handling then a hold late. TIZAMAGICIAN stalked between horses then bid three deep on the backstretch and second turn, continued to loom behind the winner off the rail to midstretch, then was no match but clearly best of the others. EDDY FOREVER five wide into the first turn, stalked four wide, angled in a bit into the stretch and bested the others. EEL POINT stalked between horses, came three wide into the stretch and weakened. SPECIAL DAY three deep into the first turn, settled off the rail then outside a rival, continued off the inside on the second turn, came out into the stretch and lacked a further response. DEFENSE WINS four wide into the first turn, stalked three deep between foes, went four wide leaving the second turn and into the stretch and weakened. PALACE PRINCE settled a bit off the rail then inside, came out on the second turn and three wide into the stretch and was not a threat. OCTOPUS saved ground stalking the pace and weakened in the drive. ROYAL THUNDER pressed the pace outside the winner then between foes leaving the backstretch, dropped back between horses leaving the second turn and had little left for the stretch.

FOURTH RACE.

1 Mile Turf. Purse: $51,000. Allowance Optional Claiming. Fillies and Mares. 3 year olds and up. Claiming Price $16,000. Time 23.08 46.98 1:10.99 1:22.99 1:35.03

Winner–Absolutely Perfect B.f.4 by Vronsky out of In Perfect Style, by Perfect Mandate. Bred by Old English Rancho (CA). Trainer: Dan Blacker. Owner: The Ellwood Johnston Trust and Taste of Victory Stables. Mutuel Pool $206,309 Daily Double Pool $26,362 Exacta Pool $102,585 Superfecta Pool $57,916 Super High Five Pool $9,693 Trifecta Pool $87,765. Scratched–none.

50-Cent Pick Three (1-3-7) paid $18.55. Pick Three Pool $34,225.

ABSOLUTELY PERFECT angled in and prompted the pace outside a rival, stalked off the rail then between foes on the backstretch, re-bid alongside the pacesetter on the second turn to gain the lead into the stretch, inched clear under urging and proved best. MAGNIFICENT Q T stalked outside a rival then between foes into and on the second turn and into the stretch and edged rivals for the place between foes on the line. ROSE DUNN angled in on the early lead and dueled inside, inched away on the backstretch, fought back on the second turn and into the stretch and held third. LUCKY MS JONES broke a bit slowly and was squeezed back, settled inside, came out on the second turn and four wide into the stretch and was edged for the show. WHOA NESSIE pulled along the inside stalking the pace, continued to tug while saved ground on the backstretch, remained inside on the second turn, came out a bit for room in the stretch and was edged for a minor share between foes late. NOTHING BUT HEAT stalked three wide to the stretch and could not summon the necessary late kick. BRAHMS COMMAND broke out onto a rival, chased a bit off the rail to the stretch and did not rally.

FIFTH RACE.

1 Mile. Purse: $17,000. Claiming. Fillies and Mares. 3 year olds and up. Claiming Price $10,000. Time 24.07 48.66 1:13.55 1:26.45 1:40.10

Winner–Princess Dorian Dbb.m.5 by Idiot Proof out of Dislitleliteomine, by Singletary. Bred by Elliston Black (CA). Trainer: Andrew Lerner. Owner: ERJ Racing LLC and Lerner Racing. Mutuel Pool $190,929 Daily Double Pool $20,651 Exacta Pool $104,201 Superfecta Pool $54,693 Super High Five Pool $9,644 Trifecta Pool $72,728. Claimed–Love of Art (IRE) by Richard Barton. Trainer: Rene Amescua. Scratched–none.

50-Cent Pick Three (3-7-5) paid $4.00. Pick Three Pool $53,173. 50-Cent Pick Four (1-3/10-7-5) 2131 tickets with 4 correct paid $53.00. Pick Four Pool $148,056. 50-Cent Pick Five (5/6-1-3/10-7-5) 3724 tickets with 5 correct paid $103.45. Pick Five Pool $448,094.

PRINCESS DORIAN three wide early, stalked outside a rival, bid three deep on the second turn then outside the runner-up leaving that turn, took the lead in upper stretch and pulled clear in the final sixteenth under left handed urging while drifting in late. BROOKES ALL MINE stalked outside a rival then bid outside the pacesetter on the backstretch, battled between horses then gained the advantage on the second turn, battled back off the rail leaving that turn and in the stretch, also drifted in late and bested the rest. LOVE OF ART (IRE) saved ground stalking the pace, came out leaving the second turn and between foes into the stretch and gained the show. MAJESTIC DIVA pulled her way along inside then a bit off the rail and steadied slightly leaving the first turn, stalked just off the fence then outside a rival on the second turn and three wide into the stretch and lacked a response in the drive. BRAGGING RIGHTS saved ground chasing the pace, came out some in the stretch and weakened. BUTTIE had speed between horses then angled in, set the pace inside, dueled along the rail on the backstretch and second turn, fell back some leaving that turn and also weakened. REINAHERMOSA chased outside a rival, came out in the stretch and had little left for the drive and was eased late.

SIXTH RACE.

5½ Furlongs Turf. Purse: $50,000. Maiden Special Weight. Fillies and Mares. 3 year olds and up. Time 22.29 45.15 57.13 1:03.45

Winner–Grinningeartoear Ch.f.3 by Smiling Tiger out of Finish Rich in Nyc, by Gotham City. Bred by Martin Bach (CA). Trainer: Brian J. Koriner. Owner: Blinkers On Racing Stable, Bennett, Boyan, Cahee, Georgetti, Harris, Allen, Preszler, Rahemtulla, Ro. Mutuel Pool $341,901 Daily Double Pool $18,966 Exacta Pool $207,912 Superfecta Pool $121,885 Super High Five Pool $22,082 Trifecta Pool $154,936. Scratched–none.

50-Cent Pick Three (7-5-6) paid $6.85. Pick Three Pool $31,223.

GRINNINGEARTOEAR had speed between horses then pressed the pace three deep, stalked outside a rival on the turn, re-bid alongside the runner-up in the stretch under urging, gained the advantage in deep stretch and gamely prevailed. HOT MAGISTRATE broke in and bumped a rival had good early speed then dueled between horses, inched away and angled in on the turn, fought back inside in the stretch and continued gamely to the end. LOVE NOT WAR stalked a bit off the rail, went around a rival into the stretch and held third. REMEMBER TO SMILE chased between horses then off the rail on the turn, drifted four wide into the stretch and was edged for the show. SPANISH CHANNEL a bit slow to being, saved ground chasing the pace, came out into the stretch and put in a late bid at a minor award. STICK UP went up inside to duel for the lead, stalked along the fence on the turn and weakened in the drive. APACHE PASS stalked four wide then three deep into the turn, angled in a bit off the rail leaving the turn and weakened. GODDESS APHRODITE settled between foes then chased three deep, angled in outside a rival on the turn and lacked a rally. MYSTICA bumped at the start, chased between horses then a bit off the rail on the backstretch, angled to the inside on the turn and weakened. STARMORE stalked outside on the backstretch and turn, fell back leaving the turn, came three wide into the stretch and had little left for the drive.

SEVENTH RACE.

6 Furlongs. Purse: $75,000. ‘Anoakia Stakes’. Fillies. 2 year olds. Time 21.87 44.81 57.37 1:10.81

Winner–Leucothea Ch.f.2 by Midshipman out of Any for Love (ARG), by Southern Halo. Bred by Woods Edge Farm, LLC (KY). Trainer: Peter Miller. Owner: Altamira Racing Stable, SoCal Seven Racing and McGoldrick, Brian. Mutuel Pool $270,044 Daily Double Pool $38,248 Exacta Pool $115,542 Superfecta Pool $60,523 Trifecta Pool $79,495. Scratched–none.

50-Cent Pick Three (5-6-4) paid $9.15. Pick Three Pool $28,090.

LEUCOTHEA had speed outside a rival then inched away on the backstretch, set the pace a bit off the rail, widened on the turn and drew off under some urging then a hold late while drifting in some. SHEDARESTHEDEVIL bobbled at the start, stalked inside then came off the rail on the turn and outside a rival into the stretch and was clearly second best. ECLAIR chased three deep, angled to the inside on the turn, swung out into the stretch and gained the show. BUYER’S REMORSE bumped with a rival nearing the five eighths pole, stalked outside that one to the stretch, drifted to the inside in the drive and weakened. PURE XENA bumped with a rival nearing the five eighths pole, pressed then stalked the pace inside, came out in midstretch and also weakened. BELLA RENELLA chased between horses, fell back some off the rail on the turn, came out into the stretch and gave way.

EIGHTH RACE.

1 Mile Turf. Purse: $31,000. Starter Allowance. 3 year olds and up. Claiming Price $50,000. Time 22.22 45.16 1:09.29 1:21.52 1:33.56

Winner–River God B.g.3 by J P’s Gusto out of Siren, by War Chant. Bred by Brent Fernung & Crystal Fernung (FL). Trainer: Vladimir Cerin. Owner: Wilson, Holly and David. Mutuel Pool $451,438 Daily Double Pool $121,849 Exacta Pool $252,545 Superfecta Pool $152,343 Super High Five Pool $40,292 Trifecta Pool $200,354. Scratched–Montana Moon.

50-Cent Pick Three (6-4-1) paid $46.05. Pick Three Pool $223,526. 50-Cent Pick Four (5-6-4-1) 2429 tickets with 4 correct paid $126.65. Pick Four Pool $403,044. 50-Cent Pick Five (7-5-6-4-1) 822 tickets with 5 correct paid $287.00. Pick Five Pool $309,049. 20-Cent Pick Six Jackpot (3/10-7-5-6-4-1) 215 tickets with 6 correct paid $341.48. Pick Six Jackpot Pool $137,533. Pick Six Jackpot Carryover $168,407.

RIVER GOD saved ground stalking the pace, bid along the rail into the stretch to gain a slim advantage past midstretch and held on gamely under urging. TARTINI chased between horses then inside on the second turn, came out into the stretch and surged late three deep on the line. HOOTIE pressed the pace outside a rival, put a head in front leaving the second turn, battled outside the winner under a left handed crack of the whip then had the rider lose the whip a furlong out, fought back alongside that rival through the final furlong and continued gamely between foes late. STORM THE BASTILLE (FR) angled in and tugged outside a rival stalking the pace, went between horses on the second turn and three wide into the stretch and finished willingly. VOLUBILE hopped in a bit of a slow start, angled in and settled a bit off the rail, came out three deep on the second turn and four wide into the stretch and also finished with interest. GOOD BYE PUTIN broke a bit slowly, settled outside a rival then off the rail on the second turn, came out four wide into the stretch and bested the others. SOUTH WEST BAY (GB) had good early speed and set a pressured pace inside, fought back leaving the second turn, came out a bit into the stretch and weakened. KICHIRO tugged his way along three deep then stalked three wide to the stretch and also weakened. REEDLEY chased three deep then outside a rival on the second turn and also weakened. MONGOLIAN HERO saved ground chasing the pace throughout and lacked a rally. UNBROKEN STAR a bit slow into stride, saved ground off the pace, came out leaving the second turn and into the stretch and also lacked a response in the drive.

Santa Anita Entries for Monday, October 14.

Santa Anita, Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, California. 12th day of a 23-day meet.

FIRST RACE.

6½ Furlongs. Purse: $17,000. Maiden Claiming. Fillies and Mares. 3 year olds and up. Claiming Price $20,000.

SECOND RACE.

5½ Furlongs. Purse: $21,000. Maiden Claiming. 2 year olds. Claiming Price $30,000.

THIRD RACE.

5½ Furlongs Turf. Purse: $36,000. Claiming. 3 year olds and up. Claiming Price $40,000.

FOURTH RACE.

6 Furlongs. Purse: $50,000. Maiden Special Weight. Fillies and Mares. 3 year olds and up.

FIFTH RACE.

1 Mile Turf. Purse: $51,000. Allowance Optional Claiming. 3 year olds and up. Claiming Price $16,000. State bred.

SIXTH RACE.

6 Furlongs. Purse: $31,000. Starter Allowance. 3 year olds and up.

SEVENTH RACE.

5½ Furlongs Turf. Purse: $53,000. Allowance Optional Claiming. Fillies and Mares. 3 year olds and up. Claiming Price $62,500.

EIGHTH RACE.

7 Furlongs. Purse: $15,000. Claiming. 3 year olds and up. Claiming Price $12,500.

SACRAMENTO — 

Victims of childhood sexual abuse will have more time to report allegations and file a lawsuit under a California law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The legislation was introduced following widespread allegations of abuse of minors by Catholic priests as well as the 2018 conviction of Larry Nassar, a former U.S. Olympic gymnastics team doctor, for molesting young athletes.

“The idea that someone who is assaulted as a child can actually run out of time to report that abuse is outrageous,” said Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), the bill’s author. “More and more, we’re hearing about people who were victims years ago but were not ready to come forward to tell their story until now.”

Currently, survivors must file a lawsuit within eight years of reaching adulthood or within three years of the date a survivor who has reached adulthood “discovers or reasonably should have discovered” they suffered damages, whichever comes later.

Gonzalez’s Assembly Bill 218 extends the statute of limitations for reporting childhood sexual assault from the time a victim is age 26 to age 40, and increases the period for delayed reasonable discovery from three to five years.

The bill also provides a window of three years for the revival of past claims that might have expired due to the statute of limitations. In addition, damages can be trebled in cases in which a child becomes a victim of sexual assault as the result of an effort to cover up past assaults, Gonzalez said.

“We shouldn’t be telling victims their time is up when in reality we need them to come forward to protect the community from future abuse,” Gonzalez added.

The measure had support from gymnastic athletes who were victims of Nassar, who was sentenced to 40 to 125 years in prison after more than 260 women and girls came forward with assault allegations against the doctor that dated to the early 1990s.

The bill was opposed by the California Civil Liberties Advocacy, which argued in a letter to lawmakers that the proposal will “negatively impact civil defendants because the availability and reliability of evidence diminishes over time.”

The group also maintained that “extending the statute of limitations in civil suits is more in the interests of the plaintiffs’ lawyer industry than that of the abuse survivors, in which the negative effects will be felt in the decades to come.”

However, the Victim Policy Institute wrote: “The current law lets too many abusers avoid accountability for their actions. The only good thing to come out of recent scandals was an environment that encouraged well-known women — actors or Olympians — who were victims of childhood sexual assault to come forward.”

Newsom also signed a bill that temporarily lifts the statute of limitations on lawsuits for damages over sex abuse allegations against former USC campus gynecologist George Tyndall, who has pleaded not guilty to charges he sexually abused 16 former patients at the campus clinic dating to 2009.

Although nearly 400 women have made allegations against Tyndall covering his 27-year career at the university, the statute of limitations for damages arising from a sexual assault that occurred when the victim was an adult is 10 years from the date of the last actionable conduct or three years from the discovery of the resulting injury, whichever is later.

The new law allows lawsuits to be filed, starting Jan. 1, alleging improper sexual contact or communications by a physician at a student health center between Jan. 1, 1988, and Jan. 1, 2017.

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SACRAMENTO — 

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Sunday that would have brought new oversight of California’s dog blood industry that supplies veterinary hospitals with lifesaving products for pets in the state, saying the proposal approved by lawmakers “does not go far enough.”

Instead, Newsom said he wants legislators to send him a bill that would phase out the use of “closed colonies,” in which dogs are “kept in cages for months and years to harvest their blood for sale.”

“The legislation should provide for the safe and humane treatment of donor animals, the welfare of the recipients and adequate oversight and enforcement of this program,” the governor wrote in his veto message.

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Under Senate Bill 202 by state Sen. Scott Wilk (R-Santa Clarita), California would have joined the rest of the country in allowing dog owners to volunteer their pets to donate blood while continuing to allow closed colonies to operate. With the veto, the state will continue to require that veterinarians purchase blood products solely from companies that house donor animals for the purpose of drawing their blood every 10 to 14 days.

SB 202 also would have rolled back sweeping public records exemptions that have allowed private animal blood companies in the state to operate colonies of caged donor dogs under a cloak of secrecy. SB 202 would have made public annual inspection reports by the California Department of Food and Agriculture, information that has been shielded from disclosure since the state first began examining the facilities in 2002.

Wilk said the state must allow for additional sources of dog blood amid a national shortage and that the bill would have made “a real difference” for pets in need. The need for dog blood has been rising across the country as more pet owners opt to treat injuries and diseases that require blood transfusions.

Some animal welfare groups were unhappy with SB 202 and instead wanted legislation allowing voluntary pet donations while phasing out the use of dogs housed as blood suppliers, but a bill to do so died amid opposition from the California Veterinary Medical Assn. The veterinary group argued that eliminating the use of company-owned donor dogs could create a massive blood shortage that would put the injured and sick animals they care for at risk.

Newsom’s veto message made clear he believes the animal blood donor system should change and that housing dogs for the purpose of drawing their blood is not the answer. Instead of making an incremental change, he asked for a new bill.

“Until you have a dog who is a family member in crisis, you don’t understand how ridiculous the system is in California,” said Kassy Perry, a longtime communications professional in the state Capitol who began advocating for SB 202 last week after her daughter’s dog nearly died when the veterinarian could not get the necessary blood products for him. “Why would you not allow for voluntary donations now and go after closed colonies next if you chose?”

The operators of the two animal blood banks in California — Hemopet and Animal Blood Bank Resources International — say housing colonies of donor dogs ensures a regular supply of safe blood for veterinarians. Greyhounds make up the bulk of blood donors at the facilities because of their generally docile temperament and their “universal” blood type, which can be used to treat any breed.

The owner of Hemopet said her Garden Grove facility has more than 200 greyhounds that were former racing dogs in other states. Animal Blood Bank Resources International, based in Dixon, does not disclose where its donor dogs are kept or how many animals it has. That information would be available on the state’s inspection reports that would be made public under SB 202.

A magnitude 3.1 earthquake was reported Sunday evening at 8:55 p.m. Pacific time five miles from Borrego Springs, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The earthquake occurred 19 miles from La Quinta, 20 miles from Palm Springs, 24 miles from Palm Desert, 25 miles from Coachella and 26 miles from Indio.

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In the last 10 days, there have been no earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater centered nearby.

An average of 234 earthquakes with magnitudes between 3.0 and 4.0 occur per year in California and Nevada, according to a recent three-year data sample.

The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.2 miles. Did you feel this earthquake? Consider reporting what you felt to the USGS.

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Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Monday, Oct. 14, and here’s quick look at the week ahead:

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Monday is Indigenous Peoples Day in Los Angeles, San Francisco and other cities that have chosen to rethink how we celebrate American history — and who we honor on the second Monday of October.

The fourth Democratic presidential debate will be held on Tuesday in Ohio. Sen. Kamala Harris and businessman Tom Steyer will be two of the 12 candidates on stage with ties to California.

On Thursday, millions across California (and the globe) will participate in The Great ShakeOut — the world’s largest earthquake drill. (Reminder: Now, while the ground isn’t shaking, is as good a time as any to make sure your emergency kit is packed and ready to go. Here are some pro tips for putting one together.)

And now, here’s what’s happening across California:

TOP STORIES

The fires that hit Southern California have been linked to three deaths as officials on Sunday continued to gain ground. In the Saddleridge fire that swept across the San Fernando Valley foothills, a man in his late 50s died after suffering a heart attack while talking with firefighters early Friday. In the Sandalwood fire that burned dozens of mobile homes in Calimesa, two people died. Los Angeles Times

More on the Saddleridge fire:

• Tens of thousands of Los Angeles residents who evacuated from the path of the Saddleridge fire returned home late Saturday and early Sunday, days after the wind-driven blaze tore through the hills at the northern edge of the San Fernando Valley. Los Angeles Times
• An electrical tower is being investigated as a possible ignition point of the fire. The cause has not yet been determined, officials said. Los Angeles Times
• For Porter Ranch, the Saddleridge fire was the latest disaster on a growing list. The community has been battered by brush fires, earthquakes and four years ago the largest natural gas leak in United States history. Los Angeles Times
• A dirty blanket of smoke from the fire settled over much of the city and raised air pollution levels in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Times

Power had been restored to all homes and businesses affected by the PG&E blackouts in Northern California by Saturday evening, according to the company. The last customers to be reconnected were scattered through the Sierra foothills and northern Sacramento Valley. Sacramento Bee

L.A. STORIES

The Los Angeles Police Department’s elite Metropolitan Division will drastically cut back on pulling over random vehicles, a cornerstone of the city’s crime-fighting strategy that has come under fire for its disproportionate impact on black and Latino drivers. This major shift was prompted by a Times investigation. Los Angeles Times

Why are these L.A. people sleeping in stacked pods? It’s not just the cost of housing.Los Angeles Times

The exodus of talent from Hollywood studios to streamers is stunning, so our team mapped it. This interactive graphic shows the dramatic migration of executive and creative talent from the major studios to streaming platforms over the last five years. Los Angeles Times

Here are some of the best late night and 24-hour dining experiences around Los Angeles, from Thai staples in the Valley to Korean comforts in Koreatown. Eater LA

Dubai in Weho at the Viper Room? Residents say they hate the look of the Morphosis-designed mixed-use high-rise slated for the development of the Viper Room on Sunset Strip. Curbed LA

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IMMIGRATION AND THE BORDER

A U.S. Marine veteran who fought in Iraq faces imminent deportation. The Long Beach resident, who saw combat in Iraq, served time for felonies. His supporters are asking Newsom for a pardon. Orange County Register

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

Sunday marked the deadline for Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign or veto bills passed by the Legislature. Here’s a look at some of what passed over the weekend:

• California will become the first state in the nation to mandate later start times at most public schools under legislation signed into law by Newsom Sunday. Los Angeles Times
• In his latest rebuke of the Trump administration, Newsom signed a bill Friday that bans private prisons and immigrant detention facilities from operating in California. The move was hailed as a major victory by advocates for criminal justice reform and immigrant rights.Los Angeles Times
• The Jerry “There must be some limit to the coercive power of government” Brown days are officially over: Smoking and vaping in most areas of California state parks and beaches will soon be prohibited after Newsom OK’d a proposal that had been vetoed by Govs. Jerry Brown and Arnold Schwarzenegger seven times in a decade of efforts. Los Angeles Times
• California will become the first state in the nation to require public universities to provide access to abortion pills on campus under a bill signed by Newsom on Friday. Los Angeles Times
• The Oakland A’s will have an easier time financing and building a proposed new ballpark at the Port of Oakland’s Howard Terminal after Newsom signed two bills Friday to help the team. San Francisco Chronicle
• Newsom toughened California’s already strict gun control laws, signing a raft of bills that broadly expand the state’s “red flag” law and limit the purchase of semiautomatic rifles by individuals to one per month. Los Angeles Times
• A law intended to counter Trump administration plans to increase oil and gas production on protected public land was also signed by Newsom. Los Angeles Times

And some of what didn’t:

• Newsom vetoed legislation that would have allowed San Francisco to test a fee and reservation system for the world-famous crooked block of Lombard between Leavenworth and Hyde streets in San Francisco, citing “social equity issues.” San Francisco Chronicle
• He also vetoed a bill that would have barred California cities from striking tax-sharing deals with retailers like Amazon and Apple, finding that rural communities rely on the agreements to spur employment. Modesto Bee

Californians may be playing an outsize role in the impeachment inquiry, but that doesn’t mean everyone in the state is in favor. An anti-impeachment rally will be held in Bakersfield this week. Supporters are asked to bring homemade signs, American flags, and 3-by-5-foot “Trump 2020 Flags,” according to the release. Bakersfield Californian

CRIME AND COURTS

Money, murder and the “fish game”: Behind Oakland’s crackdown on gambling dens. San Francisco Chronicle

An unlicensed contractor pleaded guilty to defrauding a Camp fire survivor, and faces three years in prison. Sacramento Bee

CALIFORNIA CULTURE

A quirky Carlsbad bookstore and arts hub is facing an unexpected eviction. San Diego Union-Tribune

Bakersfield’s only operating pet cemetery has opened at Greenlawn Southwest. Bakersfield Californian

Sustainable weed: Carbon footprint and grid concerns are pushing the Southern California weed industry to be more green. Desert Sun

CALIFORNIA ALMANAC

Los Angeles: sunny, 74. San Diego: partly sunny, 70. San Francisco: partly sunny, 65. San Jose: sunny, 76. Sacramento: sunny, 81. More weather is here.

AND FINALLY

This week’s birthdays for those who made a mark in California: Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea (Oct. 16, 1962), state Controller Betty Yee (Oct. 19, 1957), L.A. County Supervisor Hilda Solis (Oct. 20, 1957), rapper Snoop Dogg (Oct. 20, 1971) and Sen. Kamala Harris (Oct. 20, 1964).

If you have a memory or story about the Golden State, share it with us. (Please keep your story to 100 words.)

Please let us know what we can do to make this newsletter more useful to you. Send comments, complaints, ideas and unrelated book recommendations to Julia Wick. Follow her on Twitter @Sherlyholmes.

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Early on when triple Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile was getting to know British music industry veteran Catherine Shepherd, they hit a roadblock that looked like it might derail their budding romance: Joni Mitchell.

“One of the biggest trials and tribulations we ever faced was when I told her I didn’t like Joni Mitchell. I was met with a deafening silence that you can’t imagine,” Carlile, 38, said during a chocolate-chip-cookie break last week at her West Hollywood hotel the afternoon after she taped an appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” with her new all-female supergroup, the Highwomen.

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“Catherine literally stopped there and then in the 1995 Jeep we were driving to the doughnut shop, with her [copy of Mitchell’s album] ‘Blue’ CD in the player, and she said, ‘I actually don’t think I know you. I don’t think we can continue dating if you can’t at least understand “Blue”’,” an album that ranked No. 30 on Rolling Stone’s 2012 list of the greatest albums of all time and which the publication said “may be the ultimate breakup album.” Among the albums best-known tracks are “Carey,” “California,” and the song that has become a melancholy holiday standard, “River.”

“And I was like ‘Well hear me out on this: I hate the lyric “I want to renew you. I want to shampoo you” [in the song ‘All I Want’]. I actually can’t forgive Joni for that lyric,” Carlile said. “I don’t like it. It’s so heterosexual. It’s really hard for me to really sink my teeth into that. She doesn’t sound very tough.’ And Catherine says, ‘’You want to hear tough? You want to know what tough is? ‘You know what ‘Little Green’ is about?” she said in reference to Mitchell’s rumination on the daughter she placed for adoption in 1965 when she was a starving 22-year-old musician in Toronto and unprepared for motherhood.

“She played it for me and it was great and I sat there in that Jeep and cried my eyes out,” Carlile said. “I’ve been a Joni Mitchell fanatic ever since, and deeply ashamed of my earlier aversion to Joni Mitchell. Now I’ve made up for lost time.”

So much so that come Monday, Carlile will demonstrate her deep admiration for Mitchell’s music and legacy at Walt Disney Concert Hall in L.A., where she’ll perform Mitchell’s 1971 album “Blue” in its entirety during a program titled “Songs Are Like Tattoos,” a line from the album’s title track.

She chose “Blue” both because it became the cement for her relationship with Shepherd, whom she married in 2012, and because she now considers it to be “the great gateway drug, to show people how revolutionary Joni’s music is.

“I want to do just two things,” said Carlile. “One, play an album for people that they can no longer hear live, without an ego attached to it. I’m not trying to reinvent that wheel. I’m going to do it exactly like it was done” on Mitchell’s album.

“The other thing is to give people fodder to meditate on the continuation of Joni’s evolution as an artist and the influence that it’s had on men and women, and on music in every genre,” she said. On Monday, Carlile will screen a video she’s assembled featuring different artists discussing Mitchell’s influence on their music.

Carlile’s friendship with one of the most acclaimed singers and songwriters of the 20^th century began last year when she took part in a 75th birthday tribute concert at L.A.’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. That show, subsequently released theatrically and on home video, featured Mitchell friends and disciples such as Kris Kristofferson, Emmylou Harris, Graham Nash, James Taylor, Norah Jones, Chaka Khan, Rufus Wainwright and Los Lobos.

As Carlile tells it, she sneaked onto the bill through a side door: her band had been playing shows with, and supporting, Kristofferson, and he tapped them to perform with him at the tribute to Mitchell, his longtime friend who attended the concert.”The love she had for everyone there was so evident,” Carlile said. “She’s so much more joyful and peaceful than I had even heard she was.”

While she was in L.A. last week taping “Ellen,” she called Mitchell’s house in Bel-Air, expecting to speak to her assistant who usually handles incoming calls.

“Joni actually answered the phone,” she said. “She’s like, ‘Oh, hi. What are you ladies doing? How was ‘Ellen’? Do you want to come up for a glass of wine?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, I’ll be there in an hour and a half, because this is L.A., right?”

Mitchell has rebounded remarkably from the brain aneurysm that hospitalized her in 2016, Carlile said, although she has been seen using a cane in recent public outings, having needed to re-learn how to walk. Mitchell also gave up the chain-smoking habit for which she was infamous and which progressively lowered her singing voice.

“She’s been singing a bit and it’s beautiful — really beautiful,” Carlile said. “She’s been doing some jazz standards and it’s like I get to sit next to her and sing harmony. That’s incredible. It’s mind-blowing that the vibrato is still there. She’s actually risen vocally to a place I think that she probably hasn’t been in 20 years.

“She says she feels like more of a painter right now, though,” she said. “She’s just very serene, really peaceful. And not a sour word to say about anyone.”

Originally Carlile had considered saluting Mitchell at Carnegie Hall in New York.

“I told my managers, and they were like, ‘Well, nobody’s going to make any money, but let’s do this.’ So they started looking at Carnegie Hall. Then I got those Grammy nominations,” she said, referring to her six nominations and three wins earlier this year stemming from her album “By the Way, I Forgive You” and the hit single “The Joke.”

“That put me in a place where I could play Madison Square Garden,” she said. “My managers said, ‘You can play Madison Square Garden, or you can play ‘Blue’ at Carnegie Hall,’ and I was like ‘Blue.’ I’m not even going to think about it.”

Shepherd, however, overheard Carlile’s half of the phone conversation.

“She said, ‘What if you play ‘Blue’ in L.A.? Joni might come.’”

Mitchell is, in fact, expected to attend Monday’s performance, said Carlile, adding that after finishing her renditions of the “Blue” songs, “I’m going to come out and do something that’s a surprise for Joni, and then I am going to honor her by closing the show with one of my own songs that’s influenced by her.

“Her most legendary quote, I think — and I’ll probably butcher it — but it’s along the lines of ‘If you see me in my music, I haven’t done my job; If you see yourself, I’ve done my job’,” Carlile said. “I want to show her that she’s done that.”

After her breakthrough in “Mary Poppins,” Julie Andrews worried that taking the role of Maria in “The Sound of Music” might lead to being typecast as a nanny. The short, blond look she sported in the second film was actually designed to cover up a hairstyling mishap that turned her normally brown hair bright orange. Visiting the Von Trapp villa in Austria for the location shooting turned out to be a disturbing experience once she learned that the place had been taken over during World War II by SS leader Heinrich Himmler.

Those are a few of the intriguing tidbits in Andrews’ new book, “Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years,” written with daughter Emma Walton Hamilton. But unlike many Hollywood memoirs these days, it doesn’t contain any shocking or titillating revelations.

For the record:

3:41 PM, Oct. 13, 2019
An earlier version of this article misidentified the title of Andrews’ book as “Home Again” in the final paragraph.

Instead, the 84-year-old British-born actress and singer comes across pretty much as the Julie Andrews that we admire on the screen — graceful, elegant and wholesome, but not particularly complicated or troubled.

“Home Work” is the story of an ordinary person blessed with extraordinary gifts, including a soaring, angelic soprano voice, whose big struggle was to maintain that normalcy in a Hollywood rife with exploitation and excess.

As detailed in her previous book, 2008’s “Home: A Memoir of My Early Years,” Andrews got her start in show business at age just before her tenth birthday, standing on a beer crate to reach the microphone as she sang in her mother and stepfather’s vaudeville act. By the time she was a teenager, she had become her family’s main means of support, roaming England and trying to cheer up dreary dressing rooms with a bunch of flowers between twice-an-evening performances in smoke-filled halls full of inebriated adults.

The young Andrews, who never had time for an education, said she feared for her future in British vaudeville’s dying days. She was saved by the grace of her talent, which led producers to cast her in British musical theater. Andrews’ performance in “Cinderella” at the London Palladium was so good she got an offer to cross the Atlantic and play the lead role in a Broadway production of “The Boy Friend,” just before her 19th birthday.

During rehearsals, an American producer, Cy Feuer, took the inexperienced actress out to the theater’s fire escape and gave her a bit of sage advice: Abandon any trace of camp or shtick, and play her character as simply and truthfully as she could. Andrews did just that and “The Boy Friend” became a smash hit.

That led Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, those giants of the Broadway musical, to offer her the stage role of Eliza Doolittle in “My Fair Lady,” where she honed her craft under the supervision of legendary director Moss Hart. After seeing her perform in “Camelot,” Walt Disney enticed Andrews to Hollywood for the lead in “Mary Poppins.”
Andrews recounts how she headed west with then-husband, set-director Tony Walton, and their infant daughter Emma for a crash course in film acting alongside the more experienced comedian Dick Van Dyke.

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Julie Andrews sings in the 1957 live broadcast of “Cinderella.”  

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Julie Andrews and Richard Burton in the musical “Camelot.” 

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Julie Andrews, left, and Carol Burnett clown around in the Emmy-winning CBS special “Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall.” The pair reunited for several more shows throughout their careers. 

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Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke in “Mary Poppins.” 

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James Garner and Julie Andrews in “The Americanization of Emily.” 

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Julie Andrews as Maria in “The Sound of Music.”  

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Julie Andrews in a scene from “Torn Curtain.”  

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Julie Andrews in a scene from “Star!” 

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Julie Andrews and Rock Hudson in “Darling Lili.” 

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Julie Andrews starred in “The Tamarind Seed”with Omar Sharif. 

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Julie Andrews appeared in “S.O.B., a comedy about Hollywood directed by husband Blake Edwards. 

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James Garner and Julie Andrews in “Victor Victoria,” a romantic comedy of mistaken identity set in 1930s Paris. 

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Julie Andrews in “Duet for One.”  

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Julie Andrews in Blake Edwards’ “That’s Life.”  

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Carol Burnett, left, and Julie Andrews reunited for TV special “Julie and Carol: Together Again.” 

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Colin Firth and Julie Andrews in “Relative Values.” 

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Anne Hathaway, Julie Andrews and Hector Elizondo in “The Princess Diaries.” 

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Julie Andrews presides over Fairyland as tooth fairy matriarch Lily.  

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Andrews admits she was unhappy about being passed over for the role of Eliza Doolittle in the film version of “My Fair Lady,” in favor of non-singer Audrey Hepburn. (Marni Nixon, the famous Hollywood “ghost singer,” did the actual vocals in the film.) But Andrews says she ultimately felt grateful for the snub, because it enabled her to star in “Mary Poppins.”

Of all her films, “Mary Poppins” gets the most lavish, detailed description in “Home Work,” from the ballet-influenced walk she developed for her character, to the advice she gave Van Dyke as he struggled to approximate a cockney accent. She recalls Disney in glowing terms — “always very encouraging and full of bonhomie” — and learned, to her amazement, about the daunting amount of editing, re-recording of dialogue and other tinkering that a major production required to get into theaters.

Andrews’ debut film earned her a lead actress Oscar in 1965. By then, she already had another massive musical hit, “The Sound of Music.” The most interesting part of that production for her was traveling to Austria to shoot on location, where she was moved by the beauty of the mountains and chilled to learn about the Himmler connection to the villa. “You can literally feel the evil that once permeated those walls,” she recalls.

She reveals that her favorite song in the film is “Edelweiss,” even though she only got to sing it in the Von Trapp ensemble, not as a solo.

Back in Hollywood, Andrews — still in many ways a small-town English girl — struggled with press appearances and other requisites of stardom. She and Tony Walton drifted apart, due to the frequent separations required by their work. In an effort to save her marriage, Andrews sought help from a psychoanalyst and even briefly considered abandoning her acting and singing career, until her therapist advised her that it would take her a long time to become as good at anything else. Moreover, he explained, it was a shame to waste a gift that gave so much pleasure to others.

Andrews’ first marriage didn’t survive, but as she was leaving the therapist’s office one day, she had a chance encounter in the street with the man who would become the love of her life, director and writer Blake Edwards. Initially, he wanted to cast her in his film “Darling Lili,” but a romance soon blossomed and the two eventually married.

Andrews’ portrait of Edwards, to whom she was married until his death at age 88 in 2010, is more revealing than anything she writes about herself. He is as complex as she is straightforward. She describes him as witty, insightful and kind, and a gifted cinematic storyteller, but also prone to depression and dependent upon painkillers to cope with a bad back. She writes that he became embittered by a bullying, callous Hollywood studio culture, which he battled to keep his films from being ruined by executives’ meddling.

Andrews herself seems to float above the 1960s-70s counterculture tumult in Hollywood, an old-fashioned movie star who probably would have been more at home in the Golden Age of the 1940s. Nevertheless, the book documents her encounters with colorful figures such as Alfred Hitchcock, who directed her in “Torn Curtain,” and with the hard-living Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. The lone intersection with “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” is when she and Edwards invited martial arts great Bruce Lee to lunch at their home, where he entertained them by springing from his chair into a flying side kick. (“Can Nureyev do this?” Lee asked.)

The most moving part of the book is Andrews’ account of postwar Vietnam and Cambodia, which she visited in the early 1980s as part of a humanitarian delegation. (She has two adopted daughters, Amelia and Joanna, who were Vietnamese orphans.) She devotes more space and vivid detail in the book to those scenes of heart-wrenching deprivation and suffering than she gives to some of her movies. The trip, she notes, changed her “on a profound level,” giving her a new sense of purpose. She became an activist, lobbying for legislation to allow the Asian American children left behind by U.S. servicemen to immigrate to this country.

“I never anticipated any of it,” Andrews says of her film career. “I just took the opportunities that were in front of me and waded in.”

That degree of candor — and Andrews’ refreshing unpretentiousness and gentle sense of bemusement at her life’s adventures — make “Home Work” a book that will appeal to fans of her films, as well as anyone who wants to be reassured that being a celebrity doesn’t have to involve scandal.

Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

Julie Andrews

Hachette Books: 352 pages; $30

Kiger has written for GQ, Sierra magazine, Fast Company and History.com. He’s also co-written two nonfiction books, “Poplorica” and “Oops.”

If you go

The Los Angeles Times Book Club and the Ideas Exchange welcome Julie Andrews in conversation with columnist Mary McNamara about “Home Work.”

When: 7:30 p.m., Nov. 18.

Where: Orpheum Theatre, 842 S. Broadway, Los Angeles

More info: latimes.com/bookclub

At the cliffhanger end of the demo for “ARBox,” an in-development augmented-reality game that uses a mix of digital and physical objects to allow for escape room-like experiences in our home, players were given a choice: Join a magic revolution and risk it all or pledge allegiance to a corporation and opt for the promise of security. The cost? A life without sorcery.

Earlier this year at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the gaming industry’s largest North American trade show, most of those who tested the experience played it safe and put their trust in a corporation. At IndieCade, however, an annual independent-focused game event that concluded Saturday in Santa Monica, the votes were unanimous: Join the magic rebellion.

No real surprise that IndieCade attendees would favor a more autonomous route. For more than a decade, IndieCade has showcased what’s underground, what’s next and what’s important in interactive storytelling. Perhaps more vitally, IndieCade puts the emphasis on individual developers, highlighting gaming’s idiosyncratic voices who believe play is a language as much as it is a tool for a medium.

After all, play increasingly surrounds us as “immersive” has become a buzzword used to describe spaces as varied as meticulously detailed restaurants to Instagram museums to theater, and IndieCade touched on everything from interactive productions — the bad date experience that is “Red Flags” — to the large-scale, theme park-influenced art spaces of Meow Wolf, open in New Mexico but coming soon to Denver and Las Vegas.

IndieCade makes room too for academic experiments and do-it-yourself projects, but in its 12 years, the event has also subtly carved a new path for games. The recently released mobile subscription service Apple Arcade, for instance, is loaded with IndieCade titles current and former, be it the wacky “What the Golf?,” the literary puzzle game “Dear Reader,” the reflective “Where Cards Fall” or the narrative examination of the gig economy that is “Neo Cab.”

And yet the contrasts between IndieCade and the mainstream game industry felt especially pronounced last week, one in which Southern California game giant Activision Blizzard faced heat for the suspension of an esports player who expressed support for the pro-democracy demonstrations roiling Hong Kong. At IndieCade, games embrace, reflect and aim to discuss the world we live in rather than try to shut it out.

Beyond “Neo Cab,” for instance, there was “Liberated,” a living comic book in which democracy slowly devolves into authoritarianism. As characters run through panels, billboards flash their credit score, showing a populace paralyzed by its debt. Both “Headliner: NoviNews” and “The Occupation” took differing approaches to journalism and the spread of information — or disinformation. “The Occupation” unfolds as a time-sensitive thriller in which controversial laws that will erode civil liberties and stoke anti-immigrant fervor are in the hands of those shaping the government’s narrative. “Headliner: NoviNews,” meanwhile, focuses on choosing headlines and staying one step ahead of an administration that increasingly may view the media as an enemy.

The developers of “Co-opoly” are encouraging players to track down two copies of “Monopoly,” preferably at your local thrift store, and then convert them — stickers are available for printout on the game’s site — into a game that questions capitalism via players cooperatively battling developers aiming to replace affordable housing with generic luxury condos for the rich. “Do Not Feed the Monkeys” takes a more humorous look at our cultural climate. The game, available for home computers, questions why we’ve so willingly allowed potentially invasive tech into our lives, tasking the player with spying on a cast of characters while also striving to reach an eroding middle class.

Don’t, however, mistake IndieCade as solely a place for seriousness.

On Saturday evening, the fest shifted its focus slightly to group participation, emphasizing games that seek to help us connect with strangers and break down the social barriers that naturally become ingrained in us as we leave childhood. Check “Hellcouch,” a game that turns a sofa into a controller. Sit on it and discover that said couch is possessed by a demon, one that sounds a little like a heavy metal vocalist, and it’s the job of the player and two others to perform a ritual — sit and stand and make sure each participant doesn’t miss a demon signal — to unleash the monster within.

A bit ridiculous, yes, but Carol Mertz, who developed the game with Francesca Carletto-Leon, doesn’t lug a couch around the country just for kicks. While Mertz admits the game started as a joke, the reason it commanded long lines at IndieCade was likely because “Hellcouch” finds ways to bring people together.

“We got really excited about the idea of exploring what it means to interact with other people on sofas, in general, and in public spaces,” Mertz said. “Getting people to sit next to each other is actually sometimes a challenge, like encouraging people to get close. What could we do to design something that would encourage people to forget about that weirdness?

“Doing something physical like ‘Hellcouch’ is a really cool way of bringing people together,” Mertz added. “That’s why I like to design tabletop games and card games as well. Sharing a space with each other is something that I feel like we do so infrequently.”

Using play to erase whatever gap it is that prevents people from connecting was an underlying theme of this year’s IndieCade. It was present in the heart-achingly thoughtful “Ama’s Momento,” which combines virtual and augmented realities with room-scale projections to tell the story of Yoko Kung, a grandmother of one of the developers, and her lifelong love and quest to champion Taiwanese art.

Players could track Kung’s journey via a world map that sprung to life, and then later, in virtual reality, walk around the environments that comprised her journey. The development team hopes it’s a way for cultural institutions to tell personal stories, but it was easy to envision a smaller-scale version becoming the equivalent of the family slide projector of the future; instead of looking at old photos, we walk in them.

Thinking of play, however, as a communicative tool is still something of an experiment. About seven years ago, the mobile game “Spaceteam” became a darling of IndieCade for the way it asked mobile phone users to come together to stop a spaceship from failing. This was done by each player having a slightly different screen, and everyone working together under a time crunch to prevent failure. Essentially, players barked nonsense orders at one other.

“Spaceteam” developer Henry Smith said at IndieCade that it’s been downloaded “millions” of times; a card-game version has also been created. He cited the resurgence of independent board games and the popularity of escape rooms as reasons he will continue to explore a melding of digital and physical play. His next game, “Blabyrinth,” is in development for mobile devices and will work as essentially as a randomly generated digital escape room where multiple players will problem solve by each being exposed to different areas of the game world.

“Video games are so ubiquitous now,” Smith said. “Bringing that out of the screen and into the world is exciting to people … It’s a shared space that people can navigate together and do interesting things in, and I think that can be the foundation for many different experiences.”

If there was a lesson of IndieCade, it’s to start viewing the whole world as a platform designed for play. Peter Gyory developed “Hot Swap: All Hands on Deck” with Clement Zheng, using mini cranks wheels and cannons, all 3-D printed, to put a modern spin on an arcade game. Gyory theorized that play is involved even in what we may consider mundane.

“In driving, everyone has a certain way that they want to drive,” he said. “Personally for me, I lean to one side and I hold my hand out the window. That’s how I like to drive. That comes from playing around with the configuration. Play comes from less rigidity and more fluidity in the interfaces, and allowing space for the user.”

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SERIES

The Neighborhood Dave (Max Greenfield) accidentally knocks out the Butlers’ power during a heat wave, so Calvin and Tina (Cedric the Entertainer, Tichina Arnold) spend the night at the Johnsons’ home in this new episode. 8 p.m. CBS

Dancing With the Stars The opening dance number takes place at Disneyland and then the nine couples dance to a variety of Disney songs in this new episode. 8 p.m. ABC

Halloween Baking Championship The six remaining bakers team up to create desserts that pay tribute to “The Addams Family,” scary on the outside and sweet on the inside. 8 p.m. Food Network

Bob Hearts Abishola After Abishola (Folake Olowofoyeku) calls things off with Bob (Billy Gardell), her Auntie Olu (Shola Adewusi) sets her up with a Nigerian pharmacist in this new episode of the social comedy. 8:30 p.m. CBS

All Rise A jury’s field trip to the scene of a crime takes a dramatic and unforeseen turn, leaving Judge Carmichael (Simone Missick) uncertain if the outing she approved wound up helping the defendant or causing bias in the jury in this new episode of the courtroom drama. Wilson Bethel also stars with guest stars Jacob Gibson and Suzanne Cryer. 9 p.m. CBS

Black Lightning With Freeland under occupation, Jefferson and Lynn (Cress Williams, Christine Adams) are at odds with each other and the Pierce family gets pulled in different directions. China Anne McClain and Nafessa Williams also star. 9 p.m. CW

The Terror: Infamy Henry and Asako (Shingo Usami, Naoko Mori) look to the past as they search for answers in the season finale of the chilling horror anthology. Derek Mio, Cristina Rodlo, Miki Ishikawa and George Takei also star. 9 p.m. AMC

A Very Brady Renovation The renovation series concludes with a look at unseen moments and reveals of the master suite, family room and Mike Brady’s den. 9 p.m. HGTV

Prodigal Son As Malcolm’s (Tom Payne) fragmented childhood memories become more clear, he sees that his father’s (Michael Sheen) killing spree may not have come as a shock to some members of his family. Lou Diamond Phillips, Aurora Perrineau and Frank Harts also star with guest star Charlayne Woodard. 9 p.m. Fox

POV Journalist and filmmaker Assia Boundaoui grew up in a Muslim-American neighborhood outside of Chicago, where most of her neighbors have felt spied upon for a decade or more. When Boundaoui began investigating the issue for her film, “The Feeling of Being Watched,” she uncovered tens of thousands of FBI documents that prove her hometown was the subject of one of the largest counterterrorism investigations ever conducted in the U.S. Its code name was”Operation Vulgar Betrayal.” 10 p.m. KOCE

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Lodge 49 This whimsical comedy-fantasy ends its second season. Linda Emond, Sonya Cassidy and Wyatt Russell star. 10:10 p.m. AMC

TALK SHOWS

CBS This Morning Author Ronan Farrow (“Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators”); Rachael Ray. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS

Today Elton John; Valerie Bertinelli; Adrienne Brodeur. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC

KTLA Morning News (N) 7 a.m. KTLA

Good Morning America (N) 7 a.m. KABC

Good Day L.A. Oliver Stark (“9-1-1”); Dr. Drew Pinsky; Heather Brooks Karatz, XFL; Marla Tellez. (N) 7 a.m. KTTV

Amanpour and Company 8 a.m. KCET

Live With Kelly and Ryan Edward Norton (“Motherless Brooklyn”); mentalist Derren Brown; Vern Yip. (N) 9 a.m. KABC

The View Author Ronan Farrow (“Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators”); Gretta Monahan. (N) 10 a.m. KABC

Rachael Ray Al Roker. (N) 10 a.m. KTTV

The Wendy Williams Show (N) 11 a.m. KTTV

The Talk Four of Marie Osmond’s brothers, Alan, Wayne, Merrill and Jay, perform in honor of her 60th birthday. (N) 1 p.m. KCBS

The Dr. Oz Show Chemicals in hair care products that can have harmful side effects; world of human hair trafficking. (N) 1 p.m. KTTV

The Kelly Clarkson Show Kelly sings “Can’t Feel My Face”; Christie Brinkley and Sailor Brinkley-Cook; Maddie Marlow. (N) 2 p.m. KNBC

The Ellen DeGeneres Show Author Howard Stern (“Howard Stern Comes Again”). (N) 3 p.m. KNBC

The Real Tyler Perry (“The Oval Sisters”). (N) 3 p.m. KTTV

The Doctors Vegan sues neighbor; a 5-inch growth on a baby; a man who speared himself through the head. (N) 3 p.m. KCOP

To the Contrary With Bonnie Erbé Facial recognition software. (N) 6 p.m. KVCR

Amanpour and Company 11 p.m. KCET; midnight KVCR; 1 a.m. KLCS

The Daily Show With Trevor Noah (N) 11 p.m. Comedy Central

Jimmy Kimmel Live! (N) 11:35 p.m. KABC

Nightline (N) 12:37 a.m. KABC

A Little Late With Lilly Singh 1:38 a.m. KNBC

SPORTS

NHL Hockey The Anaheim Ducks visit the Boston Bruins, 10 a.m. FS Prime

NFL Football The Detroit Lions visit the Green Bay Packers, 5 p.m. ESPN

Baseball NLCS Game 3: The St. Louis Cardinals visit the Washington Nationals, 5 p.m. TBS

NBA Preseason Basketball The Golden State Warriors visit the Lakers, 7:30 p.m. SportsNet

For more sports on TV, see the Sports section.

Customized TV listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes

On Lanai, they’re putting the finishing touches on a multimillion-dollar remake of the old Four Seasons Lodge at Koele, which is being turned into a sumptuous spa and wellness retreat. Its sister hotel, Four Seasons Lanai, has rooms that start about $1,150 a night.

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Teams of gardeners wander the tidy streets that border Dole Park in Lanai City, picking up white and yellow plumeria that have tumbled to the ground and trimming the grass around the restored movie theater, which has a lawn lush enough to make an Augusta National greens keeper weep with envy.

Some 98% of Lanai is owned by Larry Ellison, co-founder and executive chairman of Oracle. His Lanai restoration team, called Pulama Lanai, has nearly 400 workers on the payroll and is working to restore ancient fishponds and replant forests in areas ravaged by wild deer and goats.

Ellison’s team has rebuilt the theater, opened a posh new public swimming pool, built a fancy basketball court for Lanai’s only school and is constructing 10 massive hydroponic gardens to reduce the island’s dependence on imported food.

About nine miles away on Molokai, the Kaluakoi Resort has been shuttered for more than a decade. Shrubs and small trees sprout from what used to be a pristine 18-hole golf course. There’s only one hotel on the island, a stylish but casual mom-and-pop place that has rooms from about $120.

The ferry that brought passengers to Molokai from Maui closed a few years ago, which means you can get here only by air or private boat. Scattered about the island are a few signs that suggest visitors are welcome for a spell but that locals hope it’s not permanent.

Singapore-based GL Ltd. group owns about one-third of the island but seems to have no interest in doing anything with the land except selling it, with a reported asking price of $260 million. The nonprofit Molokai Land Trust has just four full-time workers, compared to Pulama Lanai’s 400. The trust relies on its small staff and volunteers to do vital environmental work, including clearing some of the Molokai Land Ranch property of invasive kiawe trees that have crowded out native species and birds.
When I visited Molokai two years ago, I sat at the Hotel Molokai one morning and gazed at Lanai, thinking about the difference in approaches the two islands seem to be taking. It’s as if Lanai is a starlet with millions of Instagram followers and Molokai is Greta Garbo; she just wants to be left alone.

I returned to both islands this summer and found things aren’t as starkly delineated or as simple as I thought. Not everyone on Lanai is gaga about the direction the island is taking, and not everyone on Molokai is pleased that there’s no longer a resort with a posh golf course or a place for a splashy dinner.

These neighbor islands — both ideal for folks looking for the quiet side of Hawaii — are looking at tourism in distinct ways.

Molokai sorts things out

If you drive east from Molokai’s main town of Kaunakakai, you’ll see a green-and-white sign on the right side of the road that says, “Visit. Spend. Go Home.” Farther east, as you near the pristine Halawa Valley, you’ll see another hand-written sign. This one, in part, advises visitors that “Aloha is not an invitation to move here. Respect Molokai and her people.”

“Those signs do not represent Molokai,” said Jule Kamakana, who runs the Kamakana Country Store outside Kaunakakai. “A lot of people wish those signs weren’t there.”

Sitting under a wind-whipped tarp on west Molokai, where the Molokai Land Trust is doing a lot of work, project coordinator Josiah Ching told me he’d be happy if someone renovated the Kaluakoi resort. “I mean, it’s already there and it’s not attractive the way it is. Someone a few years came in and said they wanted to build a resort and golf course on the southwest tip of the island. That’s sacred land and people are very much opposed to that. But to redo the resort? I don’t see a problem.”

Ching and others I spoke with said lack of trust is partly responsible for the anti-development current on Molokai.

“When Molokai Ranch didn’t get the development they wanted they shut everything down,” Ching said. “There’s a lot of bad feelings about that, but some people take it to an extreme.”

“The island can’t live without visitors,” said Greg Solatorio, who lives in Halawa Valley with his father and runs cultural tours that include waterfall hikes and talks about Molokai culture. “We don’t want Waikiki. It would be OK if the resort came back, but it would be nice if it was educational. We don’t need more hotels handing out plumeria leis and teaching people to say, “Hey, brah.”

On the other hand, there’s Tuddie Purdy, who runs Purdy’s Natural Macadamia Nut Farm in central Molokai.

“I’m not anti-American, but they stole this land,” Purdy said when I stopped for a visit. “They took our queen (Liliuokalani) away in handcuffs.”

Putting history aside, Purdy told me Molokai is better protected from over-tourism than other Hawaiian islands because its people are more vigilant.

“Too many people want to come and buy two or three houses or build a mansion on the hill,” he said. “And then the locals get priced out.”

Changes to Lanai

On Lanai, almost everyone I spoke with on was happy with how the island is changing.

“Ellison’s deal to buy the island from David Murdock [the previous majority owner] closed on a Wednesday,” said Mike Carroll of the Mike Carroll Gallery in Lanai City. “Larry announced his plan to fix up the community pool on Friday of that week. What he’s done with Hotel Lanai (the small hotel in town Ellison owns) and with the swimming pool and the theater and other projects is amazing.”

“You have your critics; every community does,” said Jenna Majkus, who runs the Local Gentry shop in Lanai City. “Murdock was a cash-poor billionaire. But Larry is spending money. I’m the mother of an 11-year-old girl, and he’s put a lot of money into kids’ programs. There are now feeder sports for the high school, which gives my daughter something to do. We never had that before.”

“It’s odd to work for a company where it’s not all about cutting costs,” said Harrilynn Kameenui, a senior vice president at Pulama Lanai. “When we get change orders for work we’re doing, it’s to make things better.”

Kameenui said she’s all in favor of visitation to her island. To a point.

“We don’t want another Oahu. We want to keep things pristine, and we want people to come and be a part of what we’re doing here.”

Of course, not everyone is enamored with the shiny, new Lanai.

One store owner told me Ellison has done a nice job of fixing things but that his grocery store, Richard’s, is “way too expensive.”

“Ellison’s just doing this stuff to impress his friends,” another long-time Lanai resident said.

“All I can tell you is that he’s committed to helping the island become something that can become self-sustaining,” Kurt Matsumoto, chief operating officer of Pulama Lanai, said in a telephone interview. “Larry’s a passionate person, and this isn’t a flash-in-the-pan type of interest. There’s truly a commitment to quality. …

“We’re not selling tours where people go plant a tree on the mountain and pay $250 for the privilege. He’s doing the work because it’s the right thing to do.”

A young tour guide who showed me around Lanai one morning said not everyone can grasp what’s happening on the island.

“It’s maybe not as much as Molokai, but I think there’s still some distrust,” she said. “I’d say people are cautiously optimistic.”

If you go

THE BEST WAY

LANAI

Several ferries cross to Lanai from Maui. It’s $30 for adults and $20 for kids and takes about an hour. You also can fly from Maui and Oahu on Hawaiian Airlines and Mokulele Airlines. Flights are about half an hour and cost about $65. Lanai Air offers what it calls an “elevated experience” and connects Hawaii Island, Maui, Lanai and Oahu. Flights are about $250 one way.

MOLOKAI

The best way to get here is a half-hour flight from Maui or Honolulu on Hawaiian, Mokulele or Makani Kai Air. Flights are about $50 to $70 one way.

WHERE TO STAY

Hotel Molokai, 1300 Kamehameha V Highway, Kaunakakai, Molokai; (877) 553-5347. A modest but pretty spot on the coast with a small pool and on-site restaurant. Rooms from about $119 a night.

Puu O Hoku Ranch, Mile Market 25, Kaunakakai; (808) 558-8109. A tranquil spot on the road to Halawa Valley. It’s a working ranch but has cottages that can sleep four and a lodge that can sleep 22. Cottages are $275 a night.

Wavecrest Resort, 7148 Kamehameha V Highway, Molokai; (808) 558-8101. There are a variety of units available in this complex on the east coast of Molokai, where you’ll find a small pool, gas barbeques and more. Home Away lists Wavecrest condos from $104 a night.

Four Seasons Resort Lanai at Manele Bay, 1 Manele Bay Road, (800) 321-4666. A remarkable property overlooking Hulopoe Beach, one of the best in the islands. It was renovated a few years ago and now has a lush South Seas feel, with dark pools surrounded by brilliant bougainvillea and flaming red ginger. Rooms from about $1,150 a night.

Hotel Lanai, 828 Lanai Ave., Lanai City; (800) 795-7211. Hotel Lanai also has been renovated and has a sleek, almost Scandinavian look. Rooms from about $250 a night weekdays.

Four Seasons Hotel Lanai at Koele, 1 Keomoku Highway, Lanai City; (800) 505-2624 It was formerly styled like an English hunting lodge but will begin its new life Nov. 1 as a Sensei spa/wellness retreat. A three-night minimum stay is $4,090 a night, including all meals, Sensei guide, wellness activities and round-trip transportation from Honolulu.

WHERE TO EAT

Hiro’s Ohana Grill, Hotel Molokai (see above). Look for local fish and Asian-influenced favorites such as short ribs. Dinner entrees $22 to $36. Live music most nights.

Paddlers Restaurant, 10 Mohala St., Kaunakai, Molokai; (808) 553-3300. Burgers, fish tacos, salads and pasta; dinner entrees $12 to $29.

One Forty, Four Seasons Resort Lanai at Manele Bay (see above); (800) 321-4666. Aged steaks, salads with local lettuce and great ahi poke at this upscale dining spot with a lovely terrace. Dinner entrees $32 to $90.

Lanai City Bar & Grille, Hotel Lanai (see above). Look for everything from burgers to local venison (deer run wild on the island) and fresh fish. Chef Joel Harrington has been known to sprinkle Pop Rocks candy on his ahi tuna with ponzu for a surprising crunch. Dinner entrees $20 to $42.

Blue Ginger Café, 409 7^th St., Lanai City; (808) 565-6363. A fun, casual spot where locals gather for breakfast, lunch or dinner for eggs with Portuguese sausage, shrimp tempura or chop steak. Most dinner entrees $12 to $16.

Pele’s Other Garden, 811 Houston St., Lanai City; (808) 565-9628. Colorful place for sandwiches, pizza, pasta, salads and other casual fare. Dinner entrees $17 to $20.