The opening of the Eaton Fire Collab was a great success. The parking lot was overflowing, and the 36,000 square foot space was packed shoulder to shoulder with tours, a party, and lots of tabling by non-profit organizations. In the future Free Store (for those who apply in advance) sits the mural shown above, which is about 25 feet long. There was a party going in the central meeting area, along with free snacks. When in full swing, this will be the largest fire recovery hub in California. There is an entire section dedicated to mental health, relaxation, and recovery. It includes art therapy, peer-to-peer counseling, and other psychological resources.
The EFC Collaboratory is having a grand opening on Tuesday, Oct. 7th, at 540 W. Woodbury Ave. in Altadena (near the intersection of Lincoln and Woodbury). This massive 36,000 square foot compound is the home to many non-profits and an art collective. Our collaboration mural with impact artist Ekaterina Sky is now housed here and visible in the west-facing lounge near the rolling doors. The vision for the remainder of the space will be explained on the day to visitors and guests.
Eaton Fire Collaboratory Grand Opening
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 | 4:00 PM – 7:00 pm
540 W. Woodbury Ave, Altadena, California
Grand opening of EFC Collaboratory, Altadena
In January 2025, California faced one of the most devastating wildfire seasons in history. Thousands of families were displaced, homes were lost, and entire communities were left reeling in the aftermath.
For the past nine months, the StrongHome Network has been on the ground, serving, supporting, and walking alongside families impacted by these fires. Through collaboration with hundreds of dedicated organizations, SHN has worked tirelessly to help survivors rebuild their lives, restore hope, and begin again.
Now, SHN is thrilled to announce the Grand Opening of the Eaton Fire Collaboratory—a new shared space where over 40 organizations are coming together under one roof to continue this vital work.
The Collaboratory is a place of restoration, partnership, and community. Here, fire-affected families can access a wide range of resources including:
Essential needs and personal recovery support
Home rebuilding and construction guidance
Family and marriage strengthening programs
Mental health and wellness services
Business and financial recovery resources.
Following the grand opening, the Eaton Fire Collaboratory will remain open weekly during regular business hours to serve anyone in need of these resources.
Whether one seeks personal support, rebuilding assistance, or community connection, this will be a welcoming space for ongoing recovery and growth. If anyone was impacted by the fires or are passionate about supporting community recovery, all are invited to join SHN for this special event.
Come meet the partners, explore the space, connect with local leaders, and discover how we can all move forward—stronger together.
WHAT HAPPENED?Amigosdelosrios.org -- which is saving the remaining trees in Altadena after the Eaton Fire took more than half of them -- cleaned up the green space around the center in preparation for the open house on Tuesday, Oct. 7th.
"Blonde Poison," Jewish collaborator hunted 1,000s of Jews and turned them in to Nazis
(World History) Beautiful Jewess Stella Goldschlag was born on July 10, 1922, in Berlin, then part of the Weimar Republic, which was the name given to the democratic German government from 1918 to 1933.
On January 30, 1933, Mr. Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg.
Shortly after, the Nazi regime began implementing a radical anti-Jewish agenda, and in April of the same year, the "Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service" was passed, dismissing Jewish professionals from government jobs.
This sweeping policy marked the beginning of widespread discrimination, which affected countless Jewish families, including the poor Goldschlags.
The Second World War (WW II) started on Sept. 1, 1939, when Christian Germany invaded Catholic Poland.
Early in the war, Jew Stella Goldschlag enrolled in an art school, where she studied fashion drawing and posed nude as a model for about two years.
In her free time, she sang in a Jewish jazz band, and she briefly found happiness in the fall of 1941, when she married the band’s leader, Manfred Kübler.
Mistakes were made. We were young!
However, like all Jews, Stella Goldschlag could not escape the rising tide of Nazi anti-Semitism. By Sept. 1941, she was required to wear the Jewish "Star of David," and that same year, she was forced to work in the war industry, which temporarily spared her from deportation to a concentration prison camp, modeled on the American Indian reservation system by the USA.
Initially, Stella was assigned to the Siemens factory producing electric engines, but she was later transferred to an ammunition plant.
On Feb. 27, 1943, during a large-scale operation known as Fabrikaktion (German "Factory Action"). Stella and her mother were caught in a roundup of Jews at their factory.
The Gestapo were the forbears of the CIA
Acting quickly, they hid in a makeshift shelter and later slipped out through a back door to evade the Gestapo guards. Their escape was possible largely due to their blonde hair, which played into the Nazis’ false belief that Ashkenazi Jews were not as blonde as other Germans.
Unfortunately, Stella’s husband, Manfred, was arrested, deported to Auschwitz, and was never heard from again. After the Fabrikaktion Stella and her parents went into hiding.
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FOR SALE (car not included): AIPAC-funded Joe Biden does what he's told by handlers.
Biden sends $320 million "weapons gift" to Israel after UN calls Gaza a "graveyard for children": Rising
Make no mistake: Pres. Biden LOVES children.
(The Hill)
Premiered Nov. 7, 2023: Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss the latest updates on Israel's crimes against humanity, use of white phosphorus, bombing of hospitals and refugee camps, disproportionate response, collective punishment, and ethnic cleansing of Palestine, just as Republicans want. #LindseyGraham#gaza
"Paradigm-changing moment": Public opinion shifts due to Palestine. Will war on Gaza hurt Biden reelection and lead to Trump, Kamala, or Gavin?
(Democracy Now!) Nov. 6, 2023: As the Palestinian death toll in Gaza climbs to 10,000 (with at least 4,000 children murdered as "collateral damage" that Israel says is okay, proportional, and legal), calls for ceasefire are growing around the world.
Hey, Esther, is it true your hubby's in the Mossad?
"This is a paradigm-changing moment," says Shibley Telhami, who discusses the shifting public opinion on conflict in Israel and Palestine and its potential impact on Joe Biden's reelection campaign.
Telhami is a professor of peace and development at the University of Maryland and senior fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy. Support Democracy Now's work: democracynow.org/give (Latest Shows)
Drakeo the Ruler, Kendrick Lamar, DJ Quik and N.W.A Collage by Jackie Lay/NPR (Walik Goshorn/Bennett Raglin/Michael Loccisano/Theo Wargo/Getty Images/AP
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How LA proved hip-hop could go global — by staying thoroughly local
As hip-hop celebrates its 50th birthday, NPR is mapping its story on a local level, with more than a dozen city-specific histories of the music and culture. See the entire list. Look what this music has done to 50-year-olds. We must stop this menace and save our youth.
(big block) N.W.A "F*ck Tha Police" (Let's get real in high quality video)
If one grew up in Los Angeles during the '90s, one could teleport to the dawn of West Coast hip-hop through a simple twist of the dial.
In the years before the 1996 Telecommunications Act deregulated and degraded regional radio, the "urban contemporary" FM stations (Power 106 and 92.3 The Beat) still regularly mixed the old-school car wash classics rumbling right before the Big Bang.
It was like staring into the Hubble telescope — except no NASA project could compete with the supersonic levitation of Zapp's "More Bounce to the Ounce."
Understanding the foundational component of LA hip-hop meant understanding The Funk. This was intuitive to the Raiders-hatted and Kings-jacketed masses mesmerized by productions from Dr. Dre and DJ Quik, Daz and Battlecat, Sir Jinx and Warren G, DJ Muggs of Cypress Hill, and Hutch of Above the Law.
(NPR Music) July 20, 2023. The first thing I noticed as Cypress Hill strolled into NPR headquarters was Sen Dog cradling his signature bucket hat. I asked him if my assumptions were correct; it was indeed the original hat seen in all the videos from the early '90s. Before I could process that confirmation, B Real asked me, "Yo, is your greenroom a green [mota] room?" We got everything we expected and more from Cypress Hill at the Tiny Desk. While the term "pioneer" is used loosely in hip-hop and pop culture today, few terms describe Cypress Hill's impact over the past three decades more adequately. They are the first Latino hip-hop group to achieve platinum and multi-platinum status. B Real, Sen Dog, and producer DJ Muggs crafted a sound in the '90s that stretched beyond regional boundaries. It was dark, psychedelic, and at times directly addressed mental health before the topic was commonplace. Many dismissed the group as "stoner rappers," yet the members were fervent advocates for the legalization of weed long before it came to fruition. Touring members Eric Bobo and DJ Lord joined the duo along with Money Mark from Beastie Boys fame. The band summoned a horn section to fill out this rare minimalist approach to five, funky Cypress Hill things. Between each song, B Real took his time to shed some historic light on the group's journey thus far. #tinydesk#cypresshill#nprmusic
SET LIST: "When the S*** Goes Down" "Hand On the Pump" "How I Could Just Kill a Man" "(Rap) Superstar" "Insane in the Brain"
After all, it was "the G-funk era." Dre and 2Pac recruited Roger Troutman to sing the hook on what became the de facto California state anthem. Ice Cube remade "One Nation Under a Groove" with George Clinton sitting on a throne in the video.
Defying commercial logic, Snoop Dogg released singles with a grown-and-sexy Charlie Wilson. Even "Pistol Grip Pump," the biggest crossover from the subterranean hip-hop tabernacle Project Blowed, was unreconstructed militant funk.
Funk was the primordial essence in the collective DNA. Several years before Kool Herc's South Bronx "Back to School Jam," a B-boy tidal wave crested out of a South Central community college cafeteria.
That's where commercial art student Don Campbell invented "locking" by hybridizing the "funky chicken" and the "robot." The locomotion's genius lay in its open-source design.
After Soul Train relocated from Chicago to Hollywood in 1971, Campbell became a featured dancer and his interlocking joint freezes and rapid-twitch movements were soon expanded upon by polyester Baryshnikovs across syndicated America.
Wild style mutated.
In Southern California, locking merged with popping, a spastic hiccup of jerky arm, leg, and chest pops from the Bay and Fresno.
By the late '70s, both coasts simultaneously codified the four elements. In LA County, Central California transplants teamed with Long Beach natives to form the iconic crew the Electric Boogaloos.
With gymnastic ground-floor innovations imported from New York, breakin' swept the inner city.
DJs and B-boys dominated. During the last days of disco, the founders of the pioneering World Class Wreckin' Cru and Uncle Jamm's Army — Alonzo Williams and Rodger Clayton — spun funk, R&B and soul in foggily remembered nightclubs.
In '79, Williams consecrated Eve After Dark in Compton, the future Eden for the Wreckin' Cru's teen breakout star, Dr. Dre. But the West Coast remained a step behind. Park jams required expensive permits.
Best rapper of all time: Eminem?
Considered a fad, LA hip-hop lacked its own Sugar Hill Records.
In 1981, two Air Force veterans, Disco Daddy and Captain Rapp, released LA's first official rap record after meeting at a club night welcoming Magic Johnson to the Lakers.
"The Gigolo Rapp" was a brazen imitation of "Rappers Delight," right down to the label (Rappers Rapp) being owned an ex-Sugar Hill record salesman. Beyond the skill disparity, a key difference stood out:
While The Sugarhill Gang interpolated the sleek disco-soul of Chic's "Good Times," the self-described "terrible two" from LA rhymed over the orgiastic sleaze of Rick James' "Super Freak."
Sorry, Drake, this form of music will never be commercially viable and will never catch on!
James Brown invented funk. Most of its second-wave geniuses emerged from the rusting factory towns of the Midwest. But LA is where they eventually hung their sequins and Lycra.
Motown's arrival in 1972 augured the city's arrival as a world capital of Black music.
By decade's end, Casablanca Records, the disco locus behind Parliament-Funkadelic, relocated to the Sunset Strip. Soul Train spawned SOLAR (Sound of Los Angeles Records), which discovered The Whispers, Shalamar, Lakeside, and Midnight Star.
To make the bridge between eras more explicit, SOLAR co-founder Dick Griffey eventually co-founded Death Row with Suge Knight.
If synth-funk supplied the vulcanized spine of LA hip-hop, it's because that's what its rappers, producers, and DJs absorbed during their adolescence.
Unity in the Black Eyed Peas
As late as Bill Clinton's second term, terrestrial radio taught the sound of '82 alongside Tha Dogg Pound and Suga Free. What followed cannot be extricated from what informed it: Parliament's "Flashlight" and "Atomic Dog," Frankie Smith's "Double Dutch Bus" (where Snoop discovered his "izzle" slang), The Dazz Band's "Let It Whip," The Gap Band's "You Dropped a Bomb on Me," One Way's "Cutie Pie," Ronnie Hudson's "West Coast Poplock," anything remotely in the purple shade of Prince and every moment that Roger Troutman touched a talk box.
Funk animated the spirit of Los Angeles because it encapsulated the light-noir dialectic. Sparkling sheen and champagne excess clashed with pornographic rawness and grimy realities.
It was hard enough for Bloods and Crips to boogie to, but smooth and bespoke enough to appear on Soul Train and American Bandstand.
It is propulsive driving music made for perilous freeway chases and Sunday Crenshaw cruises. In the City of Quartz fractured by racial and class conflict, internecine gang wars, the barbarism of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and the debilitating effects of the crack epidemic, funk was both brick and mortar.
Parliament "Flashlight"
High George Clinton brought the funk to funkadelic ("psychedelic funk")
Fault lines rupturing
It was fitting that the first region to shatter the monopoly of the five boroughs would reflect its diametrical opposite.
Dense claustrophobia, cold weather, and arthritic subway cars made little sense in a horizontal land of abundant sunshine and Alpine subwoofers. If East Coast producers dug in the crates for rare soul and jazz samples, '80s LA gravitated toward the hardcore (punk and funk).
Why does it have to be so sexual?
If New York was an island, the rest of the nation appeared closer to the strip mall sprawl of LA. Whether it was gangsta rap or bass music, Latin hip-hop, or the triple-time chop technique incubated at the Good Life, this natural point of opposition only spurred its originality.
California has always represented America's frontier, its future.
The fault lines ruptured in 1983. The low-budget documentary Breakin' 'N' Enterin' chronicled fluorescent MC and B-boy battles waged at the city's first iconic hip-hop club, Radio.
KDAY hired Dr. Dre as "mixmaster" and Greg Mack as its musical director, setting 1580 AM on its path to become the world's first all hip-hop radio station. More
To cultivate community, Cody, Stella, Gary, and PJ (The CO LAB) are collaborating on a vegan potluck party. It's an art and cultural free event.
Bring a plant-based dish to share (or just crispy chips and spicy guacamole), watch a famous movie screening, play a song or read a poem, get in on a raffle.
Whoa, sounds totally crunchy, Man.
Come celebrate Altadena's longest-running vegan cafe, home of the Organic Cosmic Breezeway. It's like Woodstock '69, if Woodstock were on the West Coast.
If encouraged, Stellar Stella (Kinship Yoga), Cosmic J (Monrovia Meditation), or Bright Dimension Dan (AZCC) might conduct a short meditation.
A Counterpoint of Tolerance: AH! (Sept. 16, 17, 18, 2009) Bringing together an array of robotic and interactive musical technologies, ingenious stagecraft, and flights of phenomenal musicianship, REDCAT is transformed into an immersive visual and sonic environment for the world premiere of this inventive international collaboration, composed and performed by creators from around the globe and inspired by the classic Buddhist text, the Diamond Sutra.
Collaborate with artists, contribute to music: ah-opera.org
The Earliest dated printed Book The Buddhist text known around the world as the Diamond Sutra (or Vajra Cutter Sutra) is a short Mahayana discourse of the Perfection of Wisdom (prajna-paramita) genre.
It teaches the practice of the avoidance of abiding in extremes of mental attachment. A copy of the sutra, found early in the 20th century among the Dunhuang manuscripts, is in the words of the British Library, "the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book."
It is inscribed, "Reverently made for universal free distribution by Wang Jie on behalf of his two parents on the 15th of the 4th moon of the 9th year of Xiantong [11 May 868]." This is about 587 years before the Gutenberg Bible. More>>
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A Counterpoint of Tolerance: AH!
(Sept. 16, 17, 18, 2009) Bringing together an array of robotic and interactive musical technologies, ingenious stagecraft, and flights of phenomenal musicianship, REDCAT is transformed into an immersive visual and sonic environment for the world premiere of this inventive international collaboration, composed and performed by creators from around the globe and inspired by the classic Buddhist text, the Diamond Sutra. 
Ahopera mandala (CLICK HERE)
The Buddhist text known around the world as the Diamond Sutra (or Vajra Cutter Sutra) is a short Mahayana discourse of the Perfection of Wisdom (prajna-paramita) genre. 
It is inscribed, "Reverently made for universal free distribution by Wang Jie on behalf of his two parents on the 15th of the 4th moon of the 9th year of Xiantong [11 May 868]." This is about 587 years before the Gutenberg Bible. More>>
