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Local Family Looking to Purchase
a Home in El Segundo up to 1.4M
– No Realtor Fees. Fixers welcome!
Stay in home as many months as
you need with cash in hand after
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Call/Text Maggie: (310) 467-2314.
Apartment For Rent
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Mth. 310.365.1481 or 310.641.2148.
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Whiting. Available May 1st. $2,450.
310-367-7951
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Part-time Sales. Looking for motivated
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Image Metrics, Inc. seeks a Lead
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CA for the install. & config. of scal.
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Brigitte Prouty, 129 Nevada Street,
El Segundo, CA 90245.
House for Rent
Comfortable 4 BD, 2 BTH home w
large fenced yard, in top condition,
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310.322.2837.
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Found Bird - Cockatiel - El Segundo
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Entertainment
‘Shiva Baby’ Review: Fans of
‘Fleabag,’ This Film’s For You
By Ryan Rojas for Cinemacy
In Judaism, “sitting shiva” is the week-long
mourning period that is observed following
the passing of a first-degree relative. In Shiva
Baby (now available to rent on Apple TV+),
the same sort of deep mourning is felt by a
millennial undergrad over the current state
of her young life and uncertain future. When
Danielle (Rachel Sennott) returns home from
NYU to join her family to attend a funeral, she
knows that she’s also entering the lion’s den
of an overbearing family who all ask “How
are you?” in the same sort of triggering tone
that’s equal parts overly eager and concerned.
Danielle easily soothes family members
expectations with talks of post-grad ambitions
(either business or law school), while concealing
the fact that in actuality, she’s academically
middling and currently involved with a sugar
daddy in the big city. It’s not until the arrival
of an unexpected guest that Danielle’s shakily
constructed life starts to crack, making for an
event where everything is set to come out.
Shiva Baby is such a refreshing and enjoyable
new comedy due to how totally authentic
the characters and situations all feel. It’s not
altogether surprising, given that the film is
based on the experiences and observations
from writer and director Emma Seligman’s
own life, here making her directorial debut.
Seligman’s shrewd observations of the Jewish
culture along with a new millennial identity
make for a wonderfully cringe-worthy but very
real culture clash. From the specificity of detail
in the shiva setting and the hilarious characters
who attend it, down to its stark portrayal of
young people owning their newfound sexualities,
Shiva Baby is the type of equal-parts defiant
and personal filmmaking that make for the
best kind of directorial debuts.
While set to a fairly conventional narrative
structure (that of a person returning to the home
they once left and by doing so, are forced to
confront their true selves), Shiva Baby merely
uses this foundation to then make daring leaps
from. Danielle (played note-perfect by newcomer
Rachel Sennott) brings a new young woman
character (made popular by Lena Dunham’s
Girls and Phoebe Waller-Bridges’ Fleabag) to
the big screen, who, for all of her flaws and
poor decision-making, remains unapologetically
herself. By her casually decided choices
of engaging with a sugar daddy as well as
exploration of bi-sexual attractions, Danielle
subverts every expectation that both her age
and gender are typically met with. In doing so,
Shiva Baby shows a very real and untraditional
character of female empowerment.
I absolutely love recommending a film like
Shiva Baby, a directorial debut that is both
successful in its own right and makes me
look forward to what lies next for the whole
filmmaking team. Especially as theaters slowly
re-open and new releases continue to struggle
to find mass distribution, it’s such a gift to get
the chance to be able to see a new film like
this one that also happens to be one of the
funnier adult comedies to come out in recent
times. Get behind this one, baby.
77 minutes. ‘Shiva Baby’ is not rated. Available
to rent on Apple TV+. •
Shiva Baby, courtesy Utopia Distribution.
Ryan Rojas
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Dear Neighborhood Therapist,
It seems like things are going back to normal
quickly and I’m not sure I’m ready for it.
I was lucky enough to be able to work from
home, and now I find myself rushing to do
things that I promised myself I would do during
the pandemic and feeling like I have “nothing to
show” for all this time at home. I didn’t clean
the garage, renovate anything, or read an encyclopedia.
Looking back, it’s hard to actually
think of anything I accomplished, and I cannot
figure out how that happened. I feel like I should
have done so much more, and I feel like a loser
because of it. Is there something wrong with me?
– Am I Lazy? El Segundo
Dear Am I Lazy,
It’s tempting, isn’t it, to think that if we had
a year to work from home we would be able
to dedicate countless hours to self and home
improvement? With no commute, no restaurants
or bars or concerts or museums or classes to
go to, and nowhere to travel, we could finally
get to all those projects we’ve been putting
off. Cleaning out the garage. Organizing the
closet. Throwing out old clothes. Learning to
play the guitar.
We internalize productivity from a young
age, to a point that we feel in our bones that
mere survival is never enough. We feel that we
must constantly optimize, increase our output,
and get bigger and better. Because idleness is
one of our dominant culture’s worst transgressions,
we tend to feel even when that idleness
is forced upon us.
So no, there is nothing at all wrong with
you. What you are feeling is what a lot of us
are feeling: the anxiety created when our lived
experience does not fall in line with what we
think our culture expects from us. The fact
that our dominant culture does not account for
pandemics - we have no frame of reference for
the current situation - means that our thinking
defaults to, “I should be productive.” But maybe
you actually shouldn’t. We just don’t know.
We should all give ourselves a break. In
the best of times, it’s much easier to make
a resolution than to keep it. Often we are
not as tough or resilient as we think we are,
or expect ourselves to be. Though the crisis
may be on the wane, its ripples may last for
years. We’re on our way (but not there yet,
by a long shot!) back to a version of normal
that is mostly similar to what we were living
in February of 2020, but nonetheless altered.
Some will pick up right where they left off,
but for others the changes have been nothing
short of permanent and life-altering.
These initial steps back into former circles
may be uncertain, awkward, or uncomfortable.
The circles may have changed. People passed
on; others moved away or moved in; jobs and
circumstances changed. Even in those moments
where you take stock and say, “I’m ok,” most
of us have been and remain in survival mode.
There is no right way or wrong way to survive.
We would do well to assume people did their
best, and treat them - and ourselves - accordingly.
You get to do that, too.
Please write to tom@tomandrecounseling.
com or text to 310.776.5299 with questions
about handling what is affecting your life, your
family, the community or the world. Tom Andre
is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
(LMFT119254). The information in this column
is for educational purposes only and nothing
herein should be construed as professional advice
or the formation of a therapeutic relationship. •
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