By Bruce Haight
©2018 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
10/31/18

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

10/31/18

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Release Date: Wednesday, October 31, 2018

ACROSS
1 Story with many
chapters
5 Hoops gp. since
1996
9 Colorado tribe
13 Curved fastener
15 Remote batteries
16 Former Persian
ruler
17 Actor who’s
anxious to get the
Halloween party
startled?
19 Only
20 Man __: trendy
hairstyle
21 Neighborhood
22 Sonnet line
fivesome
23 Communications
co. with a blue-
and-white globe
logo
24 Sci-fi character
trying to creep it
real?
27 Bends to retie
laces, say
29 Velvet-voiced
Tormé
30 Air rifle ammo
31 One might put
stock in it
32 Small keyboard
35 Comedian who
says no body’s
perfect?
39 Zero
40 Composer who
was a CBS
reporter
43 Medium ability
46 __ de deux
47 Everycity, USA
49 Pop group whose
music is in
en-crypted files?
53 __ shot
54 Pear centers
55 __ B’rith
56 Former Fed chair
Bernanke
57 Just barely
58 Actor who frights
for every part?
61 Show impatience,
in a way
62 Opposite of away
63 Actor Nick
64 Ice cream brand
65 Messy stack
66 Ran, as dye

DOWN
1 Speaker for low
sounds
2 Momentarily will,
after “is”
3 Travel with the
band
4 Greece neighbor:
Abbr.
5 Gets one’s feet
wet
6 Bedevil
7 Sweetie, in
slang
8 Donkey
9 50states.com
graphic, for
short
10 Crime film group
11 Dangling
jewelry
12 Mideast
chieftains
14 Pooch who
shared
spaghetti with
Lady
18 Crocus kin
22 Florida key, e.g.
25 Novelist Zola
26 Russo who plays
Frigga in “Thor”
films
28 Uncork, say

32 Smidge
33 Fenced-in area
34 “Africa” band
36 Chowderheads
37 Dudes-only
38 Spongy toy
41 Matte finish?
42 Like this puzzle’s
theme?
43 Way out
44 Brief TV plug
45 Kidd stuff
47 Remote button

48 Complete, as a
PDF contract
50 Gives over (to)
51 Michelle
Robinson’s
married name
52 Gen. Assembly
member
58 “Lower your
voice!”
59 Country singer
David Allan __
60 Steal from

It is a cool Saturday in late

Oct. and as most of Ann Arbor
sleeps, Kerrytown’s Detroit Filling
Station wakes up with the intent
of changing the world. As I arrive
at the activist brunch event, I
have little idea of what to expect.
All I know before arrival is that
the event is a partnership of sorts
between the owners of Detroit
Filling Station and the Restaurant
Opportunities Center of Michigan,
who are currently advocating
for the Michigan One Fair Wage
Campaign. The One Fair Wage
Campaign is a national campaign
advocating for better working
conditions and higher wages for
restaurant workers around the
United States. The server-for-an-
hour event held at the Ann Arbor
restaurant on Oct. 27 was just one
stop on a tour of public appearances
across Mich. this past weekend
featuring actress and activist Jane
Fonda, Restaurant Opportunities
Centers United co-founder Saru
Jayaraman and Black Lives Matter
co-founder Patrisse Cullors. Also
at the event was congresswoman
Debbie
Dingell,
former
state

legislator Rashida Talib (who is
running unopposed in Nov. and
will become one of the first two
Muslim-American women elected
to the U.S. Congress) and state
representative Yousef Rabhi.

Restaurant
Opportunities

Center
co-president,
Saru

Jayaraman, educated me further on
the cause and the current reasoning
behind their stop in Mich. when she
gave some opening remarks as the
event began.

“The Michigan state legislature

passed the law for a $12 minimum
wage for tipped employees in the
state of Michigan, and now they
are trying to take it off the ballot,”
Jayaraman said passionately as
patrons nodded in agreement. Her
rousing speech had a common
thread: urging everyone to call
their senators and condemn the
removal of One Fair Wage (OFW)
off the ballot.

The public appearance of these

celebrities to advocate for OFW
was well placed at Detroit Filling
Station — a restaurant that ensures
the respectful treatment of their
employees. They make sure to
provide fair wages, with everyone
— from dishwashers to servers to
cooks — making between $14 and
$19 an hour. Additionally, all who
work at least 30 hours per week are
eligible for Michigan’s top-of-the-
line health & dental plan, ensuring
that employees can cover all of the
necessary costs of living.

As the event carried on with

gusto and charisma, I walked
around and talked to some of the
customers and local community
members about what they thought
of the event, as well as what brought
them there.

“It is super exciting to be a part

of something in this community

dedicated to a fair wage,” said Ann
Arbor resident Lynn Dils, who was
enjoying her coffee and waiting
for the event to begin. “We have
waitresses in the family, so it’s great
to be a part of something locally
that supports them too.”

Many other patrons who I had

the chance to speak with shared
her sentiments exactly. There was
something stirring in the air as
the diner bubbled with passionate
discourse between one another.

“I am so excited to be here with

national celebrities who are lending
support to a local issue… and it’s
also my favorite restaurant,” said
patron Marian Gonsior when asked
about how it felt to be at an event
like this in Ann Arbor.

The event was an amalgamation

between so many different people
from the Ann Arbor community,
all sharing a common love for social
activism and vegan food. It pushed
people to want to leave the doors
of Detroit Street and go out and
spread the word about One Fair
Wage. Activist and actress Jane
Fonda, the biggest name on the
bill, had a lot to say on the topic of
paying it forward and marching on
past the doors of Detroit Street, in
order to really make a difference.

“My former husband (Tom

Hayden) came from Royal Oak,
went to the University of Michigan
and was the editor of The Michigan
Daily, and he taught me to really
love this state,” she began when
she took the microphone to speak
in front of anxiously awaiting

Over vegan food, a fight to
raise the minimum wage

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COURTESY OF DETROIT FILLING STATION

customers.

“This is a midterm election and

it is the most important election
that I’ve ever lived through. If we
don’t at least take back the House,
we’re in even more trouble, and
it’s very important that everyone
understands to vote down the
ticket,” she said.

“Call your representatives after

the election and tell them you will
not stand for them repealing One
Fair Wage, or for taking it off the
ballot,” she finished strongly, before
introducing co-founder of Black
Lives Matter, Patrisse Cullors, who
agreed with and elaborated on her
sentiments.

“Black Lives Matter has really

been on the front lines of changing
the debate and the conversation
about racial justice in this country
and also around the world. And
I think that this particular bill
really challenges the idea of who is
deserving and what they deserve.
We live in a country that has built
our foundation on who is inferior
and who is superior,” Cullors said.

“So in our efforts to challenge

the state and local governments to
make sure that this bill isn’t gutted
— it’s going to take everybody in
this room. It’s going to take all of
our work, all of our love and all of
our commitment,” Cullors said. “I
hope that after today you go home.
You talk to your family members,
you talk to your co-workers, you go
on your social media and you make
sure that you say that this One
Fair Wage bill cannot be gutted in
Michigan.”

With her conclusion, the crowd

roared in agreement, picking up
their forks again to finish piles of
thick vegan pancakes, layered with
strawberries, whipped rice cream
and Mich. maple syrup.

I overheard Congresswoman

Dingell
expressing
her

commitment to being involved and
present at the local activist events
over last weekend — including an
event for domestic violence and
a breast cancer awareness event.
Right away, she asked the manager
of Detroit Street for an apron, so
that she was ready to serve.

“I can’t just stand here and not

remind you that we’re 10 days
away from an election,” she began,
which elicited a laugh from the
audience. Many of the speeches
by the guest servers surrounded
voter mobilization. In recognizing
that, for the Democratic Party
especially, this election is extremely
important, they emphasized the
issues of unfair working conditions
and low wages to bring to light
the necessity of voting in the
coming election. They expressed
repeatedly that the only way One
Fair Wage will see light on a Mich.
ballot in the future, and maybe one
day become a reality, is if everyone
in the room and beyond goes out
and votes.

In addition to the myriad of

celebrities present, Paul Saginaw,
co-owner of Zingerman’s Deli,
took the floor to agree with all of
the previous sentiments and offer
opinions of his own. Zingerman’s
is another restaurant that, like
Detroit Street, treats its employees
well and stands in support with
One Fair Wage.

“It is very easy to not be political,”

he began. This, to me, spoke
directly to the eligible University
students who did not vote in the
2016
presidential
election.
Of

eligible
voters,
approximately

44.7 percent voted in the election
according to the National Study of
Voting, Learning and Engagement
2016 campus report.

On
the
topic
of
voter

mobilization, I was able to talk
directly with Rashida Talib. She
is a passionate speaker, an astute
woman and a fierce individual. She
expressed how excited she was to
have a hands-on job serving people
in the restaurant that morning.

“So many of us march together

and won’t vote together,” she said
when asked why voter mobilization
is so important in young people.

“You are needed,” Talib said.

“You and your peers have a really
important role right now in coming
out and selecting leadership with
compassion.”

The air was filled with chatter

and the mouth-watering scent
of breakfast food as the morning
progressed. I overheard young
girls who couldn’t be out of middle
school declaring they’d be an
activist at some point in their lives,
people at neighboring tables sharing
moments between one another
and co-owners Phillis Engelbert
and Joel Panozzo connecting with
everyone around them, ensuring
the event was running smoothly.

I had the privilege of stealing

Phillis Engelbert away from her
busy life as a restaurant owner
and activist for a moment to say a
few words about the restaurant’s
mission and the event itself.

When
I
asked
Engelbert

what she and Panozzo thought
the
intersection
between
the

restaurant industry and activism is,
she had a lot to say.

“For us, they go hand in hand.

My business partner Joel Panozzo
and I both have histories of social
activism. So it makes sense that
we apply a community organizing
model
to
our
restaurants,”

Engelbert
said.“We
see
our

restaurants as resources, to be
used for building community and
making social change. We try to set
an example for other businesses by
offering our employees a fair wage,
health and dental benefits, earned
time off, retirement benefits and a
fitness bonus.”

Engelbert and Panozzo have a

commitment to the food they serve,
but an even bigger commitment to

the community they foster through
their restaurants.

“People eat at our restaurants

monthly, weekly and sometimes
even daily. We are told time and
again that we are their favorite
restaurants. I believe that, yes, our
food is good, but that is only one
thing that keeps people coming
back,” Engelbert said. “The other
thing is that people feel welcome
and a sense of belonging here. I
have been told by some, that they
were first attracted to Detroit Street
Filling Station by the rainbow flag,
hung near our entrance. Others
have mentioned being comforted
by our Black Lives Matter signs.”

Clearly, the team at Detroit Street

is motivated on so many levels of
social activism and in so many
different topics, but when asked
specifically about One Fair Wage
and how Engelbert incorporates it
into her businesses, she was very
passionate and excited.

“We try to stay ahead of the

curve.
When
activists
were

pushing for earned sick time, we
brought them into our restaurants
and helped them collect petition
signatures. And we began offering
it to our employees,” Englebert said.
“For us, One Fair Wage is do-able,
and it’s the right thing to do.”

After attending such a riveting

event, I was curious when I could
come back on my own accord to
taste more of this activism and
vegan food fusion. I inquired what I
could expect in the near future, so I
could mark my calendar, tell all my
friends and make the trek over to
Detroit Street for some gluten-free
Tater Tots and social advocacy.

“You can expect bold new

directions in vegan cooking, a
continued lineup of great music,
expanded
opportunities
for

activism — buses to the women’s
march in DC anyone? — possibly a
mural, a vegan Thanksgiving Feast
on Nov. 20 and a New Orleans-
themed New Year’s Eve Dinner
Party,” Englebert said. “Everyone
needs a good party, right? As Emma
Goldman said: ‘If I can’t dance,
I don’t want to be part of your
revolution.’”

That sentiment certainly rang

true at the event on Saturday.
Though a lot is at stake in the
coming elections for many people
and the issues at hand are severe
and life-changing for large groups,
everyone was able to be light-
hearted, silly at times and overall
just excited to try and make a
change. Their positive attitudes
and spirited words mingled with
the great food, warm environment
and strong sense of community
etched in the walls of Detroit Street.
It may seem unconventional for you
to enjoy a side of social activism
with
your
Saturday
morning

brunch, but I urge you to head over
to Kerrytown and try it — at Detroit
Street. It just makes sense.

It’s the ‘Great Pumpkin’

Halloween at 19 and Halloween

at nine are two very different
experiences: Costumes tend to be
a little more revealing and, while
some of us still go door-to-door,
we’re looking for a party instead
of candy from a neighbor. Some of
us might take on the adult role of
passing out the candy or even skip
celebrating altogether to study or
work. Yet despite these seemingly
glaring differences, “It’s the Great
Pumpkin Charlie Brown” serves
as a reminder of the wholesome
Halloween fun that accompanies
the holiday, whether or not you’re in
the third or 13th grade.

“The
Peanuts”
Halloween

special, in which Linus spends
a night in a pumpkin patch and
Charlie Brown finally gets invited
to a party, is surprisingly similar to
the way Halloween plays out here
at the University. Most obviously,
the characters are all just a bunch
of kids who think they know what
they’re doing but, in actuality,
have no idea what’s happening.
Whenever an adult voice of reason
tries to interfere with their fun —
looking at you Schlissel — all we
hear is a muffled garbling that really
makes no sense.

But it goes even further than

that. Take Charlie Brown for
example:
His
consistent
hope

that someday, somehow, he is
finally going to kick that football
is the same kind of naïve dream

that all of us carry into game day
(only to watch Michigan fumble
somewhere critical or miss a field
goal). Charlie Brown’s unexpected
invitation to a Halloween party, and
his subsequent joy, is the same kind
of feeling we all got when Michigan
actually
beat
Michigan
State.

Unfortunately for Charlie Brown,
the similarities don’t stop there; his
night of trick-or-treating is brought
down by the fact that instead of
getting all the candy he could ever
dream of, he gets rocks. Similarly,
my expectations for going out on
any night far exceed what actually
happens and more often than not,
I end up dead asleep by midnight
regretting my decision to even go
out at all.

Lucy,
on
the
other
hand,

encompasses the person bent on
having a good time and who is
baffled when anyone seems to
think there’s anything to do other
than party on Halloweekend. Her
criticism of Linus waiting for the
Great Pumpkin carries the same
kind of disappointed tone I might
hear from friends as I say no to the
frats or when I leave at 11:45 p.m.
to go hop in bed. She might even
call me a blockhead on my way
out. Snoopy is that one person that
gets so into their costume and their
character — I have to wonder why
they aren’t in SMTD; his World War
II flying ace costume is elaborate
and detailed, down to his dog house
as the plane. There are people in
this world, and on this campus,
who go to the same extremes. I just
can’t help but think about the time
it would take to come up with a

quality costume and execute it well.
I can barely do that with homework.

I will also proudly admit that I

am Linus and that I have, in fact,
carried a security blanket around,
which I will shamelessly take
to class and lecture. Linus also
happens to be that person who
insists on doing something other
than partying and talks excessively
about these different plans. In our
21st century case, I would liken it to
posting it on Instagram. He writes
a letter to the Great Pumpkin; I’ll
post a picture of myself studying
at Espresso Royale on a Saturday
night.
Interestingly
enough,

whether someone is waiting for the
Great Pumpkin or studying for a
good midterm grade, both rely on a
healthy level of sincerity that Linus
and I both don’t have.

Charlie Brown and Linus always

also have their little chats on a brick
wall — in “Great Pumpkin” the two
recap Halloween night, discussing
the highs and the lows of trick-or-
treating and the disappointment
of
the
Great
Pumpkin.
This

whole segment of the cartoon is
reminiscent of the morning after
brunches we all go to with our
friends while ignoring whatever
responsibilities we may or may not
need to address in the near future.

This Halloween, make sure you

watch, or re-watch, “It’s the Great
Pumpkin Charlie Brown.” Whether
you do it while pregaming a house
party or baking a pumpkin pie with
your mom, just remember to never
jump into a pile of leaves with a wet
sucker and always get your signed
documents notarized.

EMMA CHANG
Daily Arts Writer

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