christening

Doris was known for her frankness, as well as for refusing to make the salad for Neil the Baby's christening.

After delays caused by construction and permitting in the wake of L.A.’s January fires, the venue will open its doors in mid-August with local favorite Robert Glasper christening the new venue Aug. 14 and 15.

"Anthony Pierce was a man entrusted to preside over christenings, funerals, weddings and prayers," she added.

The houseboat is safe, as is the Windmill Chapel, where weddings, christenings and memorials are held.

And pretty quickly thereafter, some slamming winter rains did their own kind of christening and Prospect Bar got washed away, to be replaced almost at once by the even more grandly named Eldoradoville.