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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2014
Volume 14 Issue 42
Santa Monica Daily Press
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Top news of 2014 left public grasping for answers ADAM GELLER
THE NEW YEAR’S EVE ISSUE
Callahan’s closes today BY DAVID MARK SIMPSON Daily Press Staff Writer
WILSHIRE BLVD. After decades, Callahan’s will serve its last French toast today. The building was purchased by new owners earlier this year and the diner’s lease expires on Jan. 1. The restaurant owners
will close out 2014 with a breakfast and lunch shift today. Ingo’s Tasty Diner, a farm-to-table restaurant, will replace Callahan’s next year. The restaurant group behind Ingo’s, LGO Hospitality, also owns The Misfit on Santa Monica Boulevard at Second Street and three establishments in Pasadena.
The same restaurant group owns an Ingo’s Tasty Food in Phoenix, Ariz. that has 132 reviews and 4.5 out of five stars on the crowd-sourced review site Yelp. Vienna Pastry, which rents the other half of the building, has an eight-year lease and SEE CALLAHAN PAGE 6
AP National Writer
Twenty-thousand feet down the answers may be waiting, hidden in some underwater canyon far off Australia’s coast. But more than nine months after searchers began scouring the seas for a Malaysia Airlines jetliner that vanished with 239 people aboard, the catastrophe defies resolution. In that way, the long, fruitless hunt for clues to Flight 370’s fate set the tone for many of the headlines that defined 2014. It was a year upended by calamity and conflict, disease and division that often left the public and its leaders grasping for answers. From Ukraine to the Middle East, from the Ebola threat to the tensions exposed by police killings in Ferguson, Missouri, and elsewhere, many of the top news stories fed into a growing sense of frustration. Confronting the questions raised by the headlines brought little peace of mind. Instead, one event after another exploded, demanding attention but often rewarding it with weariness and lingering unease. Unlike 2013, when much of the news centered on Washington’s political dysfunction, many of this year’s biggest stories were rooted in farflung locales, but their impact kept rippling. That was certainly the case with the conflict over Ukraine, stretching back to President Victor Yanukovych’s ouster in February. When Russia filled the vacuum by grabbing the Crimean peninsula and working with militants bent on taking more territory from the western-leaning government, it set off a standoff reminiscent of the Cold War. Militants are blamed for downing a second Malaysian jet as it flew over Ukrainian airspace in July, killing all 298 aboard, the largest number of them Dutch. U.S.-led sanctions have begun tightening a vise on the Russian economy. Months later, both sides are locked in a stare-down that can hardly be called a peace. In less harried times, even many of the SEE NEWS PAGE 7
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LINED UP: Students painted pictures of the horizon for a project currently on display at the Santa Monica Museum of Art.
Student horizons fill Museum’s Wall BY MATTHEW HALL Editor-in-Chief
BERGAMOT STATION More than 500 students from the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District are part of the current “Wall Works” exhibit at the Santa Monica Museum of Art. For the show — titled “Horizon” — artists Silvina Babich and Alejandro Meitin of the Argentinian collective Ala Plastica
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asked students to look out on their horizon and draw what they saw. Youth-equipped with Tule reed “pens” locally harvested from the Ballona Wetlands, cardboard viewfinders, and Sumi ink - produced hundreds of observational drawings that form a collective horizon of diverse perspectives on our environment. The drawings are on view through Jan. 10 in the hallway of Bergamot Station’s G Building (2525 Michigan Ave.). Students from Edison Language Academy,
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Franklin Elementary School, Grant Elementary School, Lincoln Middle School, Will Rogers Learning Community, and more participated. Lincoln Middle School art teacher Kate Tomatti had 105 students participate in this year’s Wall Works show. She said it is a powerful experience for youth. “It connects the students to other conSEE ART PAGE 8
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