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Gardena Cinema has been owned by the Kim family since 1976, and has always figured out ways to serve its community — even through some very difficult financial times.This isn’t a story of stylish renovations, or of celebrity filmmaker intervention. This is the story of one family who fell in love with a movie theater and did everything to keep it up and running. Gardena Cinema is one of the last family-run movie theaters in L.A.
That’s where the Kim family comes in. John and Nancy Kim immigrated from South Korea and had the goal of operating their own business. They dabbled in a few different industries when Nancy found the theater. Kim reminisces about her father using a pole hand to change the letters on the marquee. However, she admits that she lacks the arm strength for such a technique, which led her to invest in a scissor lift.Kim updates the marquee letters approximately once a week to reflect the upcoming movies that will be showing at the theater.
“I realized that they were under extreme financial hardship, and they were embroiled in lots of legal problems,” she says. “Nobody was open and I had this big parking lot that I could show movies outdoors where people could sit in their car, safely, away from other people and watch a movie,” she says. “All they had to do was tune into the FM station that I told them to tune into.”As theaters in the city started welcoming folks back inside, the Kim family then had to navigate another major loss. “That time period is when my mom was fighting cancer,” says Kim. Nancy Kim died in 2022.
With her father’s blessing, Kim began the process in April of 2023. The theater got official recognition as a nonprofit in July. Between that and the success of summer films likeJudy Kim was now running a theater and a nonprofit entirely on her own. But, as she learned years earlier, you can’t underestimate the number of people willing to trade work for a free movie. It took months, but Kim now has a team of 40 volunteers who help her run the theater.
And Bill DeFrance has taken over a lot of John Kim’s duties in the cinema — cutting trailers, ripping tickets at the box office, building the show in the projector.— his and his wife’s favorite movie. “I programmed it for Valentine’s Day so I could be at the theater and on a date at the same time.” Do’s daughter’s group then reversed course, saying its employees would return to work, according to NAMI CEO Amy Durham.
NAMI President Steve Pitman told LAist over text message that he learned a “restructuring” is taking place at Viet America Society. Asked what the restructuring means, Pitman said a meeting is scheduled for next week to discuss it. Pitman did not respond to a request for an interview, but did reply to written questions.Messages for comment were not returned by Supervisor Do or Viet America Society’s leaders, including Do’s daughter Rhiannon Do and its founder, Peter Pham.
“We’re not sure what’s going on. We’ve tried to reach out to their leadership and haven’t heard from anyone,” said Mary Anne Foo, executive director of the “The information we received from NAMI is is currently restructuring,” said Ellen Guevara, spokesperson for the county Health Care Agency, which oversees the mental health funding that flows to Viet America through NAMI and OCAPICA.
Regardless of Viet America Society’s next steps, Pitman said Tuesday that the Vietnamese WarmLine will continue to operate and the nonprofit’s doors remain open. “An organization that is listed as delinquent is not in good standing and is prohibited from engaging in conduct for which registration is required, including soliciting or disbursing charitable funds.”to a mental health center where his daughter, Rhiannon Do, was president. That was over the course of the previous year.
Karen Ross, California’s secretary for the Department of Food and Agriculture, said the program was specifically meant to benefit communities identified as food deserts — communities suffering food apartheid through the lack of markets with fresh fruits and vegetables and the abundance of unhealthful processed food — by connecting them with small farmers. Ross estimates Market Match has delivered $90 million in benefits over the life of the program to California small farms.
The unions represent more than 60,000 film and TV workers. They are initially seeking an agreement on pension and health benefits. Then IATSE will negotiate additional issues with AMPTP. After last year’s WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes put crew members out of work for six months, the stakes are high for avoiding another work stoppage.The union is seeking increased compensation and worker protections, from safety on set to mandated rest periods to rules governing AI uses.
But preliminary primary results show that the nearly $3 million that Democrat Yvonne Yiu invested in her campaign — making her the top donor to any state race — could not help her secure a top two spot needed to advance to the general election.
Yiu, who used to run her own investment banking firm, had self-funded a previous campaign. She contributed nearly $6 million to an unsuccessful run for state controller in 2022.Yiu had generated more money than Peréz and the groups in support of Peréz by a margin of more than 2 to 1. But Pérez was able to rack up key endorsements from the California Democratic Party, Planned Parenthood and unions representing teachers, nurses and firefighters whom she said embraced her priorities.
The district's current senator Anthony Portantino, who is facing term limits, is running to replace Rep. Adam Schiff in the 30th Congressional District.Josie Huang reports on the intersection of being Asian and American and the impact of those growing communities in Southern California.
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