Neighborhood Councils Roundup— Crime is down in San Pedro p. 2 Carson Council stays mum on failed gun control resolution p. 5 Macbeth comes up short p. 9 Oktoberfest at Alpine Village ― Much needed tradition, comradery and beer p. 10
Port Approves Another Flawed China Shipping Plan
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Ben Westhoff’s dive into the “deadliest wave of the opioid epidemic” is the most frightening book of the year.
BY CHRIS FARAONE
On March 28, 2001, the members of the Port of Los Angeles Harbor Commission approved construction of the China Shipping terminal without a proper environmental impact report, in violation of the California Environmental Quality Act. On Oct. 8, 2019 they did it again. The 2001 decision led to a historic lawsuit, which the port lost at a cost of more than $50 million. That, too, could happen again. But first, the original plaintiffs and some allies, represented by Natural Resources Defense Council, have appealed to the Los Angeles City Council, calling on it to “overrule and reject” the port’s decision, and directing it to “negotiate a new agreement… that avoids litigation and keeps the terminal open by making good on past legal agreements.” The first lawsuit led to a 2004 settlement agreement and a 2008 Environmental Impact Report. But in 2015, following a records request from Random Lengths News, the port revealed it had not implemented 11 of the mitigation measures promised in the 2008 EIR, even granting secret waivers to China Shipping. The new supplemental EIR was meant to redress that failure, but has failed to do so. “The goal of this final Supplemental EIR is simple: to sweep under the rug over a decade of the port’s failure to comply with the law,” the NRDC wrote in its comment letter. But under the settlement agreement, “the port is rolling out the carpet for economic losses to the tune of millions of dollars,” which would kick in automatically under the terms of the 2004 agreement, in the case of arbitration. “I should have hauled the port into court four years ago,” NRDC attorney David Pettit said in his public comment. “What we’ve seen is four years of stalling and moving backwards.” Similar sentiments were echoed by the South Coast Air Quality Management District, which said in its comment letter that “the project should not be allowed to move forward,” after noting that “the
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By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor
opioid epidemic. This deal could help push the parties toward settling more than 2,400 similar claims filed across the country. The $260 million settlement will give the Ohio counties badly needed cash and anti-addiction medication.
Plaintiffs Seek City Council Override
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irst, a spoiler alert: Among the multiple apocalyptic revelations in Ben Westhoff’s Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic is sour news for all hard drug users, from casual weekend abusers to full-time cocaine cowboys. In light of developments presented in this epic book in gruesome and unprecedented fashion, putting questionable substances up your nose, in your veins, or even on your tongue is highly discouraged from here on in. “Any drug where it’s a powder or a pill, you just can’t trust it,” Westhoff said in an interview about his latest project. “There can be fentanyl in anything … [Home drug-testing kits] are getting very sophisticated, and there are websites you can consult, but in terms of going to a party and someone offering you some blow or something like that, it’s over.” Of course, many will not see this book or heed such warnings, and in tens of thousands of cases this year, will steer directly off a cliff. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “among the more than 70,200 drug overdose deaths estimated in 2017, the sharpest increase occurred among deaths related to fentanyl and fentanyl analogs (other synthetic narcotics) with more than 28,400 overdose deaths.” When he started this endeavor nearly four Between 2011 and 2017, there was an average of 464 years ago, Westhoff couldn’t have imagined deaths from accidental opioid overdoses in Los Angeles those statistics. Fentanyl showed up and kicked County. There were over 47,000 opioid overdose deaths in the hinges off a prior psychedelic focus that the United States in 2017. That’s more deaths than are caused turns up in trace amounts throughout the by automobile accidents or firearm-related homicides. book but that is overshadowed by the Just this past week, 18 pounds of fentanyl was seized by eponymous grim reaper. Quoting a CDC report, Westhoff notes, “in 2013 the ‘third authorities in Santa Ana — enough to create four million lethal wave’ of the opioid epidemic began.” doses with an estimated street value of more than $1.25 million. And “because of fentanyl, it is the The seizure yielded almost half the amount of fentanyl confiscated by most deadly one yet.” Focusing on authorities in the county during all of 2018 — a sign the drug is rapidly urban Missouri in one especially becoming a substantial public threat. harrowing chapter, he reports: “In On Oct. 21, two counties in Ohio and four drug companies agreed to a 2012, St. Louis saw 92 opioid$260 million settlement in the landmark lawsuit over responsibility for the related deaths, a number that
[See Port Flaws, p. 2]
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Community Announcements:
Harbor Area Long Beach National Conference 2019
Join the fourth annual Wonder Women Tech National Conference presenting two stages with over 150 world class speakers, Virtual Reality and immersive tech experiences, a fashion tech show and breakout workshops. Explore the intersection between tech, entertainment, the arts, and interactive technology, in addition to exploring innovation, Diversity and Inclusion initiatives, career development, leadership in all things related to science, technology, engineering and math. Time: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Nov. 7, 8 Cost: Free Details: https://wonderwomentech.com/ conferences/long-beach/ Venue: Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach
Foster Care, Adoption Workshop
This is a community effort designed to make the process of becoming a foster or adoptive parent easier and more inclusive for all families. Refreshments will be provided. Time: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 2 Cost: Free Details: www.fosteringhome.org Venue: Dyer Hall, Long Beach City College, 1305 Pacific Coast Highway, Long Beach
LA Youth to Speak on Cuba Environmental Conference A broad delegation of Latinx youth from the Harbor Area and Los Angeles, El Camino College students, members of the LA Maritime Youth Crew and local educators will report back on the proceedings of this year’s international environmental conference. Time: 6:30 p.m. Nov. 1 Cost: Free Details: lbrenda2013@yahoo.com; Venue: Lawndale High School, Rm. A205, 14901 S. Inglewood Ave., Lawndale
LB Walk to End Alzheimer’s
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Held annually in more than 600 communities nationwide, the Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s® is the world’s largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s care, support and research. Participants of all ages and abilities may join. While there is no fee to register, participants are encouraged to fundraise in order to contribute to the cause and raise awareness. Time: 8 to 11 a.m. Oct. 26 Cost: Free Details: act.alz.org/lb Venue: Shoreline Village, E. Shoreline Drive, Long Beach
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Metro Opens A Line (Blue) with Three Days of Free Rides
On Oct. 18, Metro announced the reopening of the A Line (Blue) on Nov. 2 and will offer three days of free rides from Nov. 2 through Nov. 4 on the reopened train. Customers will see station upgrades such as new digital screens providing information on train and bus arrivals, digital artwork, new station identifiers and route signage, repainted stations and refreshed landscaping. The Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station will also be reopening on Nov. 2 with a complete renovation, including a longer platform, new lighting, better connections to the surrounding community and a new security center and bikehub. Work will continue on some elements of the project beyond Nov. 2, but the station will be ready again for passengers.
A Community Grants Program Workshop
The Port of Long Beach will host two public workshops to discuss 2020 funding priorities for its Community Grants Program. Potential projects include air filters, health care programs, parks, bicycling and walking infrastructure, window and door replacements and energy efficiency projects, among others. Attendees will learn about and offer input regarding the Port’s plans to disburse Community Grant Program funding in three areas: community health, facility improvement [See Community Announcements, p. 8]
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POLA Releases Its 2018 Emissions Report and Crime Is Down By Hunter Chase, Reporter
CeSP Neighborhood Council
At the Oct. 10 meeting of the Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council, Chris Cannon, director of environmental management for the Port of Los Angeles, gave a presentation on the port’s 2018 inventory of emissions. Every year the port looks at its own activity and how many emissions they create. They track how much progress has been made since 2005. And by 2018, they had an 87 percent reduction of diesel particulate matter, 60 percent reduction in nitrogen oxides, 98 percent reduction in sulfur oxides and a 10 percent reduction in greenhouse gasses. The port set a goal to have continued reductions in emissions by 2023, even though there was growth in how much cargo they are handling. From 2017 to 2018, the port went up between 3 to 7 percent in four emissions types; 1 percent in diesel particulate matter emissions, went down but it went up 1 percent in emissions of nitrogen oxides and went up 7 percent in carbon monoxide emissions. The port is trying to limit emissions as it
remains the single largest source of air pollution in the entire Southern California area. The two ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach move 40 percent of the cargo into America and jointly are the largest port in North America, moving cargo faster, using bigger ships incentivized by the use of cleaner fuel. Still, the challenge facing the port is how they can reduce pollution to zero on dock by 2030.
On Waterfront Development
The board unanimously approved a letter asking the Harbor Commissioners to include neighborhood council members and members of the community as part of the team that will look over comments from the public about the Public Access Investment Plan for the port. Eugene Seroka, the executive director of the Port of Los Angeles, assembled a team of experts to review comments, but locals should be involved as well, said Central boardmember Frank Anderson said. The letter also asks that town hall meetings on the plan and requested the port present the project at neighborhood councils nearby.
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project will exceed the significance threshold for nitrogen oxide by up to 159 times,” and that it would “reverse previous commitments to mitigation, including zero and near-zero emission trucks and equipment.” AQMD also noted that the SEIR “does not bind the tenant to the mitigation measures and lease measures,” as is required under CEQA. That’s precisely why the SEIR had to be done in the first place. “The port is responsible for achieving the agreed emissions reductions previously committed to,” testified Jillian Wong, the AQMD planning and rules manager. “The port is allowing the project to move forward with an increase in its cargo throughput, while removing and weakening— instead of adding and strengthening—existing airquality mitigation measures.” AQMD’s letter quantified the increased pollution that resulted when the Port did not implement the mitigation measures it had promised — in 2012, an additional 772 pounds per day of nitrogen oxide; in 2014, an additional 1,203 pounds per day of nitrogen oxide; and in 2018, an additional 1,360 of nitrogen oxide. It noted that those emissions “will continue to increase into the future for the next 20 years,” if the project moves forward. Perhaps the most telling comments came from Joe Lyou, president and CEO of the Coalition for Clean Air, who was an original China Shipping lawsuit plaintiff, and an AQMD board member from 2007 through March of this year. “This is a very risky decision for you,” Lyou told the commissioners, “because it’s not doing everything that can feasibly happen in order to mitigate the air quality and public health impacts.”
Natural Resources Defense Council lawyer David Pettit. File photo
Lyou referenced the 2004 settlement agreement. “That legal agreement can’t be unilaterally renegotiated by this port,” he said. “You have to work with us on figuring out where we go from here.” Pettit pointed out that the resumption of litigation triggers the flow of tens of millions of dollars into an escrow account, which will go to community mitigation projects should the port lose in court —which history suggests is likely. Lyou made a strong case for all sides coming together to negotiate an agreement. “Other than that, it’s going to get messy, it’s going to get ugly and we don’t want the port to shut down China Shipping terminal,” Lyou said. “That’s not the option that we’re looking to do. At this point as commissioners you’re going to have to step up — going to have to actually come in and negotiate with the plaintiffs as commissioners— because we got nowhere with staff working on
The board voted 6-2 to approve the payment of $1500 to Moore Business Results for work on redesigning the council’s website. The board was supposed to pay Moore Business Results $3,000, but since the work on the website was not complete, they decided to pay half, and pay the rest when it was finished. Moore Business Results was supposed to post committee meetings on the website, but they are not accessible, at least not on mobile, said board member Jeff McBurney.
NWSP Neighborhood Council
At the Oct. 14 meeting Northwest San Pedro Neighborhood Council, the board elected high school senior Sofia Scalon as their youth representative. She is interested in dealing with the issues of homelessness, automation and littering. She was recently selected to join Mayor Eric Garcetti’s youth council. Crime in Northwest San Pedro is down overall, said Senior Lead Officer Dan Brown of the Los Angeles Police Department. The only outlier is the homicide rate. There were 16 [See Roundup, p. 3]
this issue for the last four years.” But Lyou’s comments—just like NRDC and AQMD—seemed to go right over the commissioners’ heads. “With all due respect to the speaker who said he thinks the commissioners have to step up,” Middleton said, “Sorry, I reject that. I’m perfectly happy to have staff negotiate the settlement.” But staff hasn’t negotiated. That’s precisely the point. The NRDC’s comment letter stated that “the Final SEIR violates CEQA’s command to inform the public and decision makers about the environmental harms of the project”—due to both past and future emissions—and that it improperly rejects feasible mitigation measures, “including new zero-emissions technologies that have become available since the 2008 EIR was prepared.” AQMD provided a list of companies providing a range of zero emission cargohandling technologies—RTG cranes, top handlers, and forklifts—along with a list of local terminals which had already ordered or begun using them. “At the end of the day, the community shouldered more pollution than it should have,” NRDC attorney Melissa Lin Perella told Random Lengths. “Under the revised project, the community is going to shoulder more pollution than was envisioned if those measures have been complied with. Perella pointed to the report’s use of a 2008 baseline for the AMP (shoreside power) requirement, which was 86 percent that year. But for most years, the original EIR required a 100 percent compliance rate. So past shortfalls were undercounted. “Now they want to roll back that mitigation measure to 95 percent,” Perella said. CEQA does allow mitigation measures to be [See Port , p. 3]
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Chicago Teachers Strike, Follows UTLA Strike and Gains
Cautious Optimism
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By Mark Friedman, Reporter
Tens of thousands of teachers in Chicago staged their first walkout in seven years on Oct. 17. The Chicago Teachers’ Union, which represents more than 20,000 educators, have been negotiating with the city for months, but the differences between the two sides goes beyond traditional debates over pay and benefits. Chicago’s mayor, Lori Lightfoot, was elected this year after campaigning on a platform of putting full-time nurses, social workers and librarians in all city schools, and promising to expand counseling services. She also campaigned on recruiting more black and Hispanic teachers and increasing the number of after-school programs. Teachers on the picket line are saying she is reneging on those commitments now. One woman at the front held a “We got catfished” sign accusing Lightfoot of campaigning for “schools first” while delivering “schools last.” The city offered pay raises 16 percent within 5 years, while the union calls for 15 percent over 3-year contract. Like in Los Angeles, the union wants a promise — in writing — of smaller class sizes, more paid time to prepare lessons and the hiring of more school nurses, social workers, librarians and counselors. Other issues include affordable housing provisions and protections for immigrant students. [Port, from p. 2]
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more honest analysis would assume that none of the new mitigation measures for the revised project that depend on lease amendment would be implemented.” AQMD did propose a workaround to combat China Shipping’s intransigence, “a mitigation fee program to incentivize and accelerate turnover of trucks and cargo handling equipment to be zero emissions,” made available to all port tenants. A calculation based on existing state guidelines (the Carl Moyer Program) “results in a range of $26.9 million to $89.8 million in mitigation fees, which could be reinvested into incentivizing zero-emission truck and equipment technologies for the China Shipping terminal to reduce emissions,” AQMD noted. In short, there are a lot of problems with SEIR that the Harbor Commission approved, and there are a number of potential solutions. The appeal to the City Council asks them to “direct the Board [of Harbor Commissioners] to negotiate a new agreement” where those can be sorted out. The council should take action within six to eight weeks, Perella estimated, based on past experience. But mediation and litigation remain distinct possibilities as well. “The community has waited 20 years for justice at the China Shipping terminal, and the port promised it would deliver that in 2008, and it failed,” Perella said. “That’s a really unfortunate breach of the public’s trust. And on top of that, a real unfortunate loss for the environment and community health.” It’s a failure that’s been constantly repeated. “The port just can’t get it right when it comes to China Shipping,” she said.
Union clashed with Ms. Lightfoot’s predecessor, Mayor Rahm Emanuel during the 2012 strike. In December 2018, Chicago was the site of the first teacher strike at a charter school network.
modified or even abandoned if proven infeasible, but mere sayso is not legally enough—especially if compliance has been previously achieved. “There’s actually a presumption that 2008 measures are feasible,” Perella noted, “because the port supposedly did the analysis that they were.” Likewise, the port approved rolling back vessel speed reduction requirements below levels that have also been achieved in the past. There are multiple issues regarding different baselines in the port’s report, but they all come down to one thing. “All were asking is for the use of a baseline—and CEQA allows for this—that will provide the most comprehensive and honest accounting for the environmental impacts from the project,” Perella explained. “And we don’t believe that their baseline results in that honest account.” A further complication is the port’s assumption that the lease will be updated to incorporate the required measures—but that’s exactly what didn’t happen previously, which is the whole reason for this new EIR. Expecting things to be different now, “is just not supported by how things played out in the past,” Perella said. In its comment letter, NRDC called it “irresponsible and misleading” to assume things would change, yet, “in its analysis, the port inexplicably takes full credit for the emissions reductions that may never happen, and that certainly will not happen starting in 2019. This has the effect of drastically understating the true pollution impacts of the revised project. A
About 7,500 school support employees represented by a different union (which includes security officers, bus aides, custodians and special education classroom assistants) also rejected a contract offer and planned to strike with teachers. The city, which has an annual budget of $5.98 billion, cites high unfunded pension liabilities as the culprit behind why the city isn’t offering more at the negotiating table. “Our children deserve the best that this city has to offer,” said Davis Gates, the vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union. Gates said the city had failed to offer more than the status quo on some essential issues. Chicago was the birthplace of unionization among teachers in the late 19th century, and the heavily Democratic city has remained a hotbed of teacher activism. The Chicago Teachers’
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The United Auto Workers made a deal to end the 38-day strike against General Motors Co. Included in the deal is an agreement to drop a lawsuit that accused the automaker of violating the previous contract if it went ahead with plans to close some U.S. plants. That issue will go to arbitration. Additionally, the agreement will include pay raises, a ratification bonus of at least $8,000 and a 7- to 8-year progression for temporary workers to become permanent with benefits.File photo
homicides this year as of Oct. 14, which is the same amount as 2018. September 2019 was a good month, with crime down by a third, Officer Brown said. Northwest San Pedro had 33 crimes, but most categories of crime were down. Robberies were down 50 percent, aggravated assault was down 20 percent, burglaries were down 37 percent, burglaries and thefts from vehicles were down 20 percent, there was only one grand theft auto and no rapes were reported. The board unanimously approved a proposal asking that Garcetti present his proposed budget on Feb. 1. Melanie Labrecque, budget advocate and secretary for the board, said this would be a way for budget advocates to see the mayor’s proposed budget 80 days before the charter mandated date of April 30. The board unanimously approved a letter asking the City of Los Angeles Recreation and Parks to add a new lockable swinging gate to the Gatun Street entrance of Harbor Highlands park, which would restrict the number of cars that can enter and asked for non-removable stanchions at the other entrances.
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Fentanyl in the Family
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rose to 123 in 2013 and up to 256 in 2017.” “Fentanyl completely changed the game,” one character, a former jam band road dog who jumped from newfangled hallucinogens into the far more dangerous opioid scene, told Westhoff. Beyond the numbers, which are ugly but far from reliable in this nascent abusive honeymoon phase of the crisis, this is a story about people, and Fentanyl, Inc. features a roster of villains and victims who stray far from movie archetypes. From fast and furious nerdy bros brewing up alphabet soup in bunkers underneath the desert, to 20-something call center employees who peddle poison by phone from the back offices of semilegal chemistry labs in China, their stories follow a theme reflected in all of Westhoff’s vignettes: Everything you think you know about drugs has changed. Even the people packing, slinging, sniffing and filling their vaults thanks to this garbage don’t know the half. Or the wrath. They mostly only care about the math. “A lot of drug dealing comes from people who have addictions of their own,” Westhoff said. “Painting the dark web or these people with a broad brush isn’t a good idea, because everyone has their own philosophies. A lot of people are in it for harm reduction; there’s a legitimate case to be made for getting a lot of these psychedelics and other potential medicines out to people they can potentially help. And then it gets a little harder when you get this guy who is selling nasal spray with fentanyl analogues and saying that he’s helping opioid addicts maintain their addictions in a more affordable way.” Westhoff, a relatively early explorer into the unknowns of these notorious intoxicants, stresses the lack of common facts and figures in this postmedicine chest Wild West. “They used to say that touching fentanyl can make you overdose,” he said. Unsure of the verdict on the epidermal
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threat, the author nevertheless said some of his sources “were dealing [the extremely dangerous carfentanil] and breaking it up with their bare hands.” “This stuff is so new that there isn’t much agreement—there’s not even agreement about how to pronounce the word fentanyl. Half the country says, ‘fenta-nall,’ the other half says, ‘fenta-nil.’ But nobody knows. It’s like a black box … a lack of information.” As for the innumerable analogues available online and maybe at your local McDonald’s, Westhoff said, “It evolves too quickly for people to even come up with a clever name for [new drug incarnations] … People don’t even realize what they’re taking—whether it’s heroin, or pills, or cocaine, or whatever.” In his quest to source answers to new wideopen questions, Westhoff “consulted politicians, police, DEA agents and international drug policy makers, who would like to put these traffickers away forever,” as well as “counselors, doctors, activists, and policy wonks, some of whom believe these drugs should be legal.” He even “corresponded with two infamous, nowimprisoned LSD kingpins who worked together out of an abandoned missile silo in Kansas.” “The demise of their operation in 2000,” he writes, “may have inadvertently fueled the rise of a new hallucinogen whose effects are far worse than LSD.” You may be wondering, Is this one of those stories about the real Walter White? You could say that, but there are thousands of them, wearing different hats on multiple continents, dealing on the web and in your backyard. Fentanyl, Inc. is like Breaking Bad, sure… meets Night of the Living Dead meets New Jack City, Gummo,
Kids, and Gremlins. With a cast from a lot of the places on President Donald Trump’s shithole list. As one candid former U.S. State Department special agent explains: “Fentanyl can be produced anywhere a laboratory can be set up, such as a warehouse in an industrial park, a home in a residential area or a clandestine lab in the mountains.” For Westhoff, the first taste of disaster came nearly a decade ago, in Los Angeles. He writes: In 2010, 15-year-old Sasha Rodriguez fatally overdosed at Electric Daisy Carnival at the LA Coliseum, reportedly from ecstasy. Local politicians revolted, and the event was forced to relocate to Las Vegas. A Plymouth State University student named Brittany Flannigan overdosed and died in late August 2013 after attending a Boston EDM concert featuring the popular DJ Zedd, and just days later a University of Virginia student named Mary “Shelley” Goldsmith passed away as well. Both were 19, and reports said they had taken “Molly.”
“I had a friend who died from multiple fentanyl patches a while back, before I even knew what fentanyl was,” Westoff said. “My way in was through the rave scene in LA when I was the LA Weekly music editor. I had gone to raves a lot back in the day, and ecstasy was pure MDMA, and people weren’t dying … But at these raves, someone if not multiple people were dying at every one. I wanted to investigate that, and I found out about all of these ecstasy substitutes and learned that there were all these new drugs coming out of China. But then all that stuff was really just the tip of the iceberg, because by 2016 fentanyl was much worse than all of the others by far. So it’s a completely different project than I envisioned.” Westhoff includes ample relevant history— from when “one could buy opium from the Sears, Roebuck catalog,” to a Boston dealer who unknowingly tipped off the DEA in 1992 about the nation’s first known leading source of black market fentanyl, and back to the industrial revolution and addiction in the United Kingdom, which attempted “to balance its trade deficit by using its British East India Company to ply
opium in tremendous quantities to the Chinese, causing a pair of wars.” The latter is especially critical background, as fentanyl and other new drugs have not caught on there, spurring many to think that’s why China has been so lax about laws and exports. “In May [China] blanket-banned all fentanyl analogues, which has been proven to be effective,” Westhoff said. “When China actually bans stuff it has an effect. At the same time, there’s all these loopholes. China is shipping the fentanyl precursors by the boatload to Mexico, and they’re getting [government] incentives for it. … It’s a huge sprawling bureaucracy— there’s not this one person who has a plan and is manipulating everything. It’s just capitalism gone awry. On the other hand, how could they not know what they’re doing?” In the words of one of Westhoff’s Chinese sources, a lessthan-clandestine manufacturer: “We are afraid that a reporter come to our lab, to our country, to find out why we synthesize these chemicals, or why we sell these chemicals to your country. To let your people’s health down. To harm your country’s people.” There is plenty of blame to go around. Some fingers can be pointed at figures like former presidents of the United States, including but by no means limited to Barack Obama, whose 2012 Synthetic Drug Abuse Prevention Act outlawed multiple kinds of synthetic cannabinoids, but which Wired magazine cracked, “was obsolete before the ink of his signature dried” thanks to “the speed of innovation in drugs culture.” More generally speaking, the culprit is every rank and file greatest generation prohibitionist who ignorantly warned us that our drugs could be laced with something deadly long before that was a thing that really happened. Other formerly contrived tropes about the horrors of drugs have also become real, like the one in which dealers walk around offering complimentary samples to teens. As one young woman from the Rust Belt told the author about a strip that doubles as a literal trap in her town: “They’ll come up to anybody who’s parking, getting gas, even getting cigarettes. They’ll drive up to you and ask if you mess around. They give it to you for free.” The only condition is you must give them your cell phone number. Of course all of the yellow bricks lead back to governments, complicit politicians, all those gratuitous checkboxes. Those pining for the halcyon days when it seemingly couldn’t get worse than regionally concentrated crack, meth, and heroin scourges may take aim at lazy and misguided attempts to throw a wrench in the cycle of supply and addiction, like with the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005. After that law limited the amount of drug store staples like Sudafed that you could buy and subsequently harvest to manufacture methamphetamine in your barn, Mexican cartels stepped in to fill the gaps and we all know how that’s turned out. To learn more about the source of so much mayhem, Westhoff “infiltrated a pair of Chinese drug operations, one a sophisticated laboratory operation distilling outsize quantities of the world’s most dangerous chemicals in industrialsize glassware and the other an office of young, cheery salespeople, who sat in rows of cubicles and sold fentanyl ingredients to American dealers and Mexican cartels.” After demasking wizards in China and possibly learning more than any other American civilian has to date about the mechanics of that country’s fentanyl trade, Westhoff came to understand that the problem is bigger than the F-word and its awful analogues. [See Fentanyl, p.8]
Gun Control Measure Fails, City Leaders Slow to Return Calls By Dennis J. Freeman, Reporter
Barely one month ago Carson Mayor Albert Robles failed to win city council approval for a package of gun restrictions that would have all but banned firearms in the city. But that package of proposals was done in when the city council’s decisive vote was deadlocked — two in favor, two opposed and one abstention. What almost happened? Random Lengths News has tried to find out by following up. A few weeks later, it’s still hard to say —or so it seems, inasmuch as nobody’s saying anything. Random Lengths made several tries to connect with the mayor by phone. Robles responded with several phone calls to Random Lengths reporter Dennis Freeman, but without warning or advance notice he was not successful. Freeman called back, too, but never got closer to Robles than his voicemail greeting. Random Lengths also tried twice to reach Robles and city council members by email, sending along several questions. 1. What originally motivated the push to have the city council vote to legislate firearms in the City of Carson? 2. How divisive is this issue for the city?
3. Even though the vote failed to pass, will this matter be brought up again? If so, when?
4. What type of feedback—pro and con—did you receive from residents in regards to the gun control matter?
5. How did each vote break down and why did each member voted the way that they did? It was only a month ago that Robles failed to get his resolution to cripple gun sales and restrict nearly all possession of firearms in the city pass the council chambers this past September. A month later, the council was silent on the issue when ˆ attempted to inquire about the vote and the next steps. When Robles attempted to pass the resolution, the foiled school shooting plot in Desert Hot Springs had just occurred that month and Los Angeles Unified School District had directed district school staff to conduct two active shooter drills a year starting in Fall 2020. “That is insane,”Robles reportedly said at the Sept. 17 council meeting. “When I was in school here in our LAUSD, the only drills we ever did was for earthquakes,” Robles said. Besides Robles, the other yes vote belonged to City Councilman Jawane Hilton. Councilmember Jim Dear and Mayor Pro tem Cedric L. Hicks Sr. voted no. A fair concern about litigation was also part of the heavy mood around the vote. The city attorney was asked for a staff report on reasons the resolution was presented to the city council. Because the resolution would have were responsible for dropping the no votes, going against Resolution. No. 19-163, which would
have restricted the same and possession of firearms in the city. It was requested that the city attorney’s office bring forth a staff report on why matter was being presented to council. Ben Jones, representing the city attorney’s office provided a sound and detailed explanation of the importance of restricting firearms in the city. “To help protect the public from gun violence and prevent mass shootings from occurring in the city of Carson, the proposed resolution provides for the council to direct staff to move expeditiously to exercise the city’s legal authority to the maximum extent possible, to impose land use and regulatory control on gun sales and possession in the city,” Jones said. The proposal would have discouraged
anybody in possession of a firearm from coming within a mile of a school or church, recreation area, bars, restaurants and/or residential zones. If Robles had pushed through the resolution, firearms would have been banned from sale on city-owned property. But Robles ban on guns did not extend to firearms in the possession of residents on private property. Hicks presented his doubts about the legality of the resolution, hitting the city attorney’s office with a flurry of questions. He then answered his own question by stating the obvious: “I know a lawsuit is coming, and we don’t need an additional lawsuit when we’re already up against so many obstacles for this city,” Hicks said. “And I don’t want to put nothing else on the backs of the taxpayers when we don’t need to do it.
Dolphin Park Gets All-Abilities Playground
The Carson City Council celebrated the construction of an all-abilities playground at Dolphin Park with Del Amo Elementary School students on Oct. 3. Carson City Council approved a design concept that would appeal to users differing in age, physical and mental abilities. Photo by Terelle Jerricks
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All Part of the Same Problem Housing, Transportation, Homelessness, and Jobs By James Preston Allen, Publisher
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Just the other day I read a story about how the government’s response to the housing crisis isn’t hitting the mark. From the mayor of Los Angeles to the governor of California they are scurrying around showing concern but not enough is getting built and probably won’t be soon enough to stem the homeless crisis. With the average cost to build reaching upwards of $500,000 per unit and the amount of time it will take to actually build 10,000 new apartments, it still won’t be enough to cure the problem. Realizing that access to transportation is critical in Los Angeles, city planning and zoning have reduced the number of parking spaces for projects along transit corridors. The thinking, I suppose, is that when traffic gets bad enough people will actually give up driving to work. That may happen sooner than most Angelenos care to admit. After all, Los Angeles is car culture — we love them and hate them. We have museums dedicated to them and have built concrete monuments with sculptured steel infrastructures that will outlast the most durable cars and us. Freeways are the legacy of the 20th Century brought to us by the intentional demise of the Red Car by the oil corporations and auto industry. One hundred years ago there were thousands of miles of tracks that stretched from the mountains to the sea both east and west, north and south. You can see the remnants of these here and there, but mostly covered over now. A few years ago the city was digging up the street in front of the historic Warner Grand Theater on 6th Street in San Pedro and, low and behold, underneath the asphalt were the old Red Car tracks coming up from the Harbor. They had to cut out a section just to get to the plumbing under the street. The history of this place has been paved over, stuccoed and “modernized.” We’re lucky to have anything remotely historical left in a city hell bent on reinventing itself. Just look at all the new developments going up. Even so, with the newfound “rush” to build, build, build, the San Pedro Harbor Area is still years behind the curve and a significant distance from reaching the housing goal set out for this part of LA’s closest-to-sea neighborhood. At the turn of this century, the Urban Land Institute was hired to study downtown San Pedro and issue two reports. In those reports, it was stated quite clearly that for there to be a viable local economy, 3,000 to 5,000 new units of housing needed to be built. Before the Great
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Recession, some 1,200 units might have been built and expectations were on the rise. Then there was nothing for close to a decade. Even with Councilman Joe Buscaino’s cheerleading there are only 420 new units being finished now after years of waiting. Of these, not even 3 percent will be for low income tenants. The bright side is that there are at least another 400 units now working their way through the labyrinth of city planning with the hopes of being built before the next recession. If you don’t count the project on Western Avenue, once called Ponte Vista (now called High Park), then we might get close to some 2,200 units, but that doesn’t even approach the low end of the ULI report’s target. Lest we forget the hard times of the 1980s in the Harbor Area after the loss of some 30,000 jobs to free trade and the closing of the local shipyards, San Pedro was left without any plans and has struggled at every turn three times since. You may be thinking that the third time’s the charm but I’m not given to magical thinking. This time around, it’s imperative to bring back and retain good, local middle class jobs, build affordable housing, while solving the homeless crisis and at the same time, adding transportation. Any smart urban planner will tell you they are all one problem, not four separate ones. Yet, civic leaders are trapped in a whack-a-mole problemsolving paradigm, completely unable to consider more holistic solutions. This is not just true of LA’s biggest little town. It’s true for the entire urban sprawl. Nobody actually plans for urban development, even when there’s a community plan. It’s just a lot easier to see it here in San Pedro. So what’s there to do? It’s been years since a comprehensive traffictransportation study has been completed that projects the impacts of port and trade expansion; a study that also projects what will happen when San Pedro meets the ULI goal of 3,000 units; a study that projects what will happen once the port develops the west side of the main channel and attracts millions visitors a year to this quaint slice of Los Angeles? The unintended consequences of all these aspirations will converge into a massive traffic jam with only two ways to the freeway. Without what we once had 100 years ago — a rail line that will get us from here to the rest of LA without getting in a car. Currently, that plan is decades in the future unless we wake up and demand that it happens sooner rather than later. Publisher/Executive Editor James Preston Allen james@randomlengthsnews.com Assoc. Publisher/Production Coordinator Suzanne Matsumiya
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To Joe Biden, Trump’s Potential Successor, Mike Pence, ‘Is a Decent Guy’ By Norman Solomon
When Joe Biden told an audience that Mike Pence “is a decent guy,” Pence had already been vice president for more than two years. After the comment drew fierce criticism, Biden responded that he’d said it “in a foreign policy context” —an odd effort at damage control, given that Pence has publicly backed every one of President Trump’s countless abhorrent policies, whether foreign or domestic. Now, with impeachment in the air and the remote but real possibility that Trump might not end up running for re-election, Biden’s attitude toward Pence and Republicans overall should get a closer look. That he could call Pence “a decent guy” after witnessing the stoic loyalty of his service as Trump’s highest-ranking henchman illuminates a lot about Biden’s style—and substance. Biden’s tribute to Pence’s purported decency was not atypical. Biden has long praised racist Republican senators and defended his past collaborations with them. Biden likewise has been effusive in expressing warmth toward the notorious man who preceded him as vice president. “I really like Dick Cheney for real,” said Biden while speaking at George Washington University in October 2015. “I get on with him, I think he’s a decent man.” Such statements speak volumes about Biden’s standards of decency and about his suitability to be the Democratic presidential nominee. At a time when elected Republicans in Washington have amply shown themselves to be depraved
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sycophants to Trump—no matter how viciously vile and deadly his policies—Biden still wants to pretend that those GOP stalwarts can be brought into the fold of democratic civility, from the current vice president on down. Insisting that “history will treat this administration’s time as an aberration,” Biden contended during a campaign swing in Iowa a few months ago: “This is not the Republican Party.” He went on to cite his bonds with “my Republican friends in the House and Senate.” The latest polling tells us that Biden should no longer be called the “frontrunner” for the nomination. (Elizabeth Warren’s numbers are now at least as strong.) As Politico pointed out: “Biden’s descent has been months in the making, the result of continuous fire from progressives, questions about his age and stamina, a drumbeat of negative coverage over lackluster debate performances and frequent misstatements, according to pollsters and party insiders.” But Biden still has plenty of aces in the hole, including corporate media outlets that go easy on him and wealthy donors who lavish highdollar fundraisers on him to shore up a largely AstroTurf campaign. There’s a big market among mainstream political journalists and Wall Street types for the reach-across-the-aisle blather that Biden supplies. Biden’s praise for Pence has a perverse logic. “His pitch is that with Trump gone, things —and Republicans—will return to ‘normal,’” CNN
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RANDOMLetters Gentrification in San Pedro
Your astute publication of “Gentrification in San Pedro: What We Lose” (by Arlo Tinsman-Kongshaug; Sept. 26, 2019) hits the nail on the head. If gentrification’s purpose is to award exclusivity and destroy diversity, then gentrification causes us to lose everything: our sense of community, innovation, self worth, humanity, open space, intelligence, fair and equal housing benefits and privileges, and compassion for those less fortunate. Speaking of the housing crisis, in contradiction to all those who still cling to the notion that affordable housing and habitable living conditions will take years to cut thru the proverbial red tape, the city of San Jose has set a new standard by promoting granny flats/tiny houses that can be built in 10 to 12 weeks. Bravo! Geary Juan Johnson Los Angeles
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RE: “Trump Isn’t Going Down Without a Fight,” Oct. 10. 2019: Thank you for your sanity and insights, James! Lieve Jerger San Pedro Bravo on your OpEd! Sabrina Skacan, San Pedro Great article James … and I posted it on my FB page. I especially like the “arguing with a corpse” :-) Richard Pawlowski Oregon Coast Editor James Preston Allen claims that President Trump’s support stems from “branding, not facts.” The truth is that the president has accomplished a great deal for the United States, including forcing China to sell their stake in the Port of Long Beach to another owner. National security matters, and the President’s tough stance on China’s abusive practices in trade and human rights are long [Decent from p. 6]
his absolutely despicable record. Biden apparently views that approach as helpful to winning the White House. And it’s certainly in sync with Biden’s own record of teaming up with Republicans. But whether progressives support Bernie Sanders (as I do) or Elizabeth Warren or one of the other candidates, it’s essential to recognize—and avert—the dangers posed by the Biden for President campaign. Progressives often feel that they’re on the outside of electoral politics looking in. Corporate news media routinely reinforce that impression, treating progressive activism as invisible or inconsequential. But Politico’s latest assessment—that Biden’s steep fall in the polls is partly due to “continuous fire from progressives”— tells us something important.
politicians immunity to lie on its platform. Heather, Nilda, Carmen, Jessica Free Press Action freepress.net
Facebook’s Blatant Misinformation
Facebook says it cares about protecting our elections, but it’s profiting off of disseminating politicians’ lies — both in the form of ad revenue and our attention. Tell Mark Zuckerberg it’s unacceptable to give politicians free rein to lie and misinform the public. When politicians speak, people listen. You can draw straight lines between the lies that Trump and other white supremacists are spreading via social-media platforms and the manifestos of mass shooters both domestically and across the globe. Facebook’s lax attitude toward blatant misinformation and its willingness to appease Trump is a threat to the health and safety of people of color, women, And to what end? Could Trump and others get away with ads targeting people of color saying that the day of the election has changed? Or that they have to bring their passports with them to the polls? What’s worse is that Facebook is making money off of hate and misinformation. In fact, according to a recent report, Facebook has made millions by promoting content from hate groups —
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pundit Chris Cillizza wrote. When Biden spoke to a gathering of lobbyists and donors in early summer, he sounded an upbeat note about the basic character of Republican leaders. “With Trump gone you’re going to begin to see things change,” Biden said. “Because these folks know better. They know this isn’t what they’re supposed to be doing.” Biden is campaigning with the central claim that he’s the most qualified candidate to restore bipartisan cooperation after defeating Trump. As if Republicans should be wooed more than fought, Biden likes to portray typical GOP leaders as honorable—a pretense that is in harmony with calling Mike Pence “a decent guy” regardless of
Earlier this week, Joe Biden called Medicare for All “ridiculous.” He compared us to Trump. He said we were “trying to con the American people.” The truth is, it is really sad that Joe Biden is using the talking points of the insurance industry to attack Medicare for All. Joe must know that we currently spend twice as much per capita on health care as the people of almost any other major country and that we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. He must know that under Medicare for All, funded in a progressive manner, all Americans will have comprehensive health care coverage as a guaranteed human right and, with no premiums, co-payments or out-of-pocket expenses, ordinary Americans will be spending far less for that care than they currently pay. We knew that we would be taking on Trump and the Republican Party in the fight to guarantee health as a right for every man, woman and child. We knew that we would be taking on the drug companies and the insurance industry. But I am honestly a bit tired of Democrats who insist on defending a dysfunctional system, a cruel system, that leaves millions uninsured and underinsured and tens of thousands of people dying every single year. But that is what we are up against — and it is a fight we must win. And I cannot do that alone. So I am asking: Ours is a campaign with the guts to stand up to the greed and the corruption of the insurance companies and the drug companies whose reckless pursuit of profits is killing Americans. We are going
including white-supremacist organizations. Facebook is profiting off of deception: Demand that Facebook stop giving
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to fight them — not beg them for money. And if we stand together, we are going to win. Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vermont
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in coming. Neither Trump’s Republican and Democratic predecessors did anything about China’s rampant, global abuses. His trade and economic reform policies are helping American workers, as well. I thought that Allen and Company were prolabor. He is our duly elected President. He won, fair and square. Despite rampant voter fraud in California (which allowed Crooked Hillary Clinton to receive a majority of the national popular vote), Trump swept the Electoral College, winning over disaffected, long-dismissed blue collar workers in the Rust Belt. From economic growth to border security, from tackling the corrupt media to taking on Big Tech, Trump is a fighter, a champion for the United States both at home and abroad. For the Democratic House Majority to obsess on impeaching Donald Trump is just nothing short of insane. After two years of investigations into so-called “Russian collusion”, Robert Mueller came back with nothing. House Democrats have sought after the President for his tax returns, and now they want to launch impeachment inquiries because of his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump released the transcript, which showed no “quid pro quo.” To be honest, however, I hope that Alzheimer’s Nancy Pelosi and her aged Democratic majority leadership do force a vote on impeachment. Hell, I hope that there is a trial in the United States Senate, which will be summarily dispensed with, since there’s no crime, no corruption, no collusion. Any impeachment effort from the House Democrats will blow up in their faces, and Republicans will take back the House in 2020 along with holding the U.S. Senate and the White House. Then we can hopefully have a Congress that will get things done for We the People. Arthur Christopher Schaper, Torrance Well Arthur, I can always count on your delusional take on current affairs
and your blind faith in the Trump Brand. I do suggest that you read The Cult of Trump, by leading cult expert Steven Hassan and get back to us when the House of Representatives finally submits their articles of impeachment. As far as insanity one need look no farther than Trump’s own 71minute speech in the cabinet room with reporters this week — it was truly the delusional stuff of a madhatter. James Preston Allen, Publisher
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and community infrastructure. Spanish, Khmer and Tagalog translation will be provided. RSVP. Time: 10 to 11 a.m. Oct. 26 and 6 to 7 p.m. Nov. 7 Cost: Free Details: grants@polb.com Venues: Oct. 26, Michelle Obama Library, 5870 Atlantic Ave., Long Beach and Nov. 7 Admiral Kidd Park Community Center, 2125 Santa Fe Ave., Long Beach
New Voting System Information Sessions
In 2020, the county will introduce its new voting system, the Voting Solutions for All people. Attend an information session led by a representative from the Lps Angeles County Registrar’s Office. Hosted by the PV League of Women Voters, hear more about ballots, vote centers, the new ballot marking device and vote by mail. Time: 2 to 4 p.m. Oct. 29 Cost: Free Details: 310-377-0735. Venue: San Pedro Library Community Room, 931 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro. - And Time: 10 a.m. Oct 26 Cost: Free Details: 310-377-9584 Venue: Peninsula Center Library, Community Room, 701 Silver Spur Rd., Rolling Hills Estates
Arts and Entertainment Career and Internship Expo
Join a career expo at one of the most diverse colleges in Los Angeles County. Time: 12 to 2 p.m. Nov. 6 Cost: Free Details: www.csudh.joinhandshake.com Venue: Loker Student Union, CSUDH, 1000 E. Victoria St., Carson
Climate Change Presentation
October 24 - November 6, 2019
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Citizen Climate Lobby speaker Connie Sullivan will describe the concept of a market-driven solution to climate change. Rep. Ted Deutch introduced the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, for carbon fees and dividends. This bipartisan bill now has more co-sponsors than any other climate change legislation before Congress. Hear about this very important and promising solution to climate change. Time: 11 a.m. Oct. 26 Cost: Free Details: www.pvplc.org Venue: White Point Nature Education Center & Preserve, 1600 W. Paseo Del Mar, San Pedro
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SP Democratic Club October Meeting
Immigration will be the topic of this month’s meeting — how do we protect ourselves and our neighbors, how can we help our friends, family, and neighbors obtain citizenship — what is the status of DACA and immigration legislation. Time: 7 to 9 p.m. Oct. 28 Cost: Free Details: https://www.spdemocrats.org Venue: Think Café, 302 W. 5th St., San Pedro
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Fentanyl
There are countless oddball drugs available on the black market. Take U-47700, for example; “originally created in the mid-1970s as a morphine alternative, it never received FDA approval.” Nevertheless, for one of Westhoff’s sources and who knows how many others, U-47700 “was like an ‘antidepressant,’” making them feel “whole, confident, and happy, very little stress.” Also of note is that fake weed can kill you. “Even today,” writes Westhoff, “synthetic cannabinoids remain the fastest growing class of drugs … Some are twice as potent as marijuana; some are one hundred times as potent or more. And there is little formal testing, almost nobody knows how safe each blend is, not even the scientists who invented them.” The good news keeps on coming. “Even more disturbingly,” the author reports, “fentanyl began to be pressed into pills that look exactly like name-brand prescription tablets. Raids across the United States have turned up operations in houses and apartments that turn fentanyl powder into tablets using specialized presses. Both the drugs and the machines are bought from China. These operations can make thousands of pills per hour. They stamp pills with the OxyContin or Percocet logo, and they’re indistinguishable … The dosages of these fake pills vary greatly. One might have 10 times as much fentanyl as the next. Investigators believe such counterfeit pills were responsible for the death of music star Prince; about one hundred white pills found on his property looked exactly like Vicodin but actually contained fentanyl.” From Paisley Park to the park behind your apartment, no place seems to be immune. “When you think of the opioid epidemic, you think of a lot of white middle class people,” Westhoff said. “That certainly has been a big part of it, but there’s always been a huge African-American population using heroin, and now that fentanyl is in the mix it’s causing massive casualties in places like LA and Chicago. This is not a death sentence for just one demographic. Just when the prescription pill deaths were finally falling, and just when the heroin deaths were finally falling, the deaths from fentanyl are going way up. And prescription pills are still abused at a very high rate, so if fentanyl really starts getting cut into pills, then this thing can balloon even worse than it already is. Toward the end of Fentanyl, Inc., Westhoff points to some solutions. “The crack epidemic, the meth epidemic—keep in mind people were blaming the user back then, so thankfully we’re moving beyond that.” He also supports harm
reduction strategies like supervised injection facilities, which he argues “is really just a nobrainer.” “We know from the failure of the war on drugs that focusing on the supply side is not going to work,” Westhoff said. “Killing a drug kingpin from Colombia or capturing El Chapo doesn’t do anything—the drug supply is just getting worse. The drugs will find a way to get here, drug users will find a way to get their drugs, and all we can do is focus on the demand side.” The shifting goal posts make the problem nearly impossible to smother; still, the author hopes his contribution can play an important role in navigating us out of this state of emergency. “The inventor of fentanyl, Paul Janssen, there’s literally nothing written about him, and
so I wanted to tell his story and that of the other people who brought these drugs to life. No one did it on purpose really—these are all drugs taken from scientific literature. “I tried to have it not just be about statistics, but about bigger trends. Even when this information is out of date, I think people are going to want to look back on how this fentanyl crisis got off the ground.” Chris Faraone is the editor-in-chief of DigBoston and the editorial director of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism. This article was produced in collaboration with BINJ as part of its Film Intervening Getting High Team (F.I.G.H.T.) initiative. For more information and coverage of the epidemic visit binjonline.org.
The Great Shake-out On the day California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that the nation’s first statewide Earthquake Early Warning System is available for the public to download, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti went to Point Fermin Elementary School in San Pedro to give students pointers on earthquake preparedness. The California Earthquake Early Warning System is a marvel. Designed by UC Berkeley seismologists and engineers, it employs a statewide network of ground motion sensors to detect quakes before humans can feel them, then blends a new mobile phone application with traditional alert and warning methods. But the system provides only a few seconds of warning, which officials suggest be used to “drop, cover and hold on.” Photo by Terelle Jerricks.
Pamela Lilla Seager, 1944 - 2019 Pamela Lilla Seager, whose leadership during nearly three decades as executive director led Long Beach’s Rancho Los Alamitos historic site to prominence, died Sept. 14. Seager was born July 17, 1944 in Dorking, Surrey, England to Amy Robson Seager and Horace Henry Seager. At 18, Pamela went to work for Vogue in London. Pamela was also an efficiency expert evaluating U.K. government contractors before working for Marlborough Galleries in London, New York and Venice. Later she worked for J.S. Holliday as associate director of the California Historical Society. When Katharine Bixby Hotchkis and her son, Preston B. Hotchkis, were seeking an especially talented individual to build a team for the restoration of Rancho Los Alamitos, Pamela came to their attention. They offered her the job three times. On the fourth try, Pamela accepted the position with a sixmonth commitment. For more than three decades Pamela served as executive director of Rancho Los Alamitos and president of the Rancho Los Alamitos Foundation. She oversaw the restoration of the barns, ranch house, and historic gardens on the site in Long Beach.
In one of her major accomplishments at the Rancho, Pamela created an award-winning master plan for the site which included 167 recommendations for a new interpretive program, upgraded infrastructure, and the restoration of the historic buildings and grounds. During her time at the Rancho, Pamela provided leadership and support to the Long Beach community. She served on the California Preservation Foundation, Long Beach Heritage, and the Soroptimists. Pamela is the recipient of awards and honors, including Preservationist of the Year from Long Beach Heritage, and Outstanding Contributor to the Preservation of Historic Landscapes in the United States from the American Society of Landscape Architects, and a rare Crystal Vision Award from Boeing Corporation. Pamela is survived by her husband Scott Burchard, a Long Beach actor and artist, and her many cousins in England, including Janet Milner and Hayley Reader. A celebration of life took place at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center at California State University Long Beach, Sept. 29.
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New TheatER Company’s Macbeth Comes Up Short By Greggory Moore, Curtain Call Columnist
Every time I go to the theater, every single time, I very much hope for a great show. Sure, I want to be entertained (moved, etc.), but mostly it’s about wishing the best for the brave artists on and offstage who make themselves vulnerable night after night to the high-wire act that is staging a play. Few of these folks are making any real money at it, and all are in complete earnest. They are doing what they love and giving it their all. The House of Bards Theatre Co. is a new, nonprofit troupe clearly putting their whole hearts into their inaugural production, Macbeth. And before addressing the show itself, it’s only fair to be up front about my feeling that “the Scottish play” is the most flawed of Shakespeare’s major works — maybe the most flawed in his entire oeuvre. Yeah, it’s a tour de force of a treatise on ambition (one of the Bard’s strongest subjects), and it has more than its fair share of great lines, but it’s shot through with plot holes (implausibility is de règle for Shakespeare, but Macbeth goes beyond the pale) and badly bloated. All in all, Macbeth doesn’t do it for me under the best of circumstances.
Take that for what you will when I tell you that House of Bards’ Macbeth does not present the best of circumstances. Because there’s no point in piling on, I will confine myself to a few observations, in no particular order: • The vast majority of the words we hear in this show are recited in an orotund manner fitting the common stereotype of Shakespeare, with far too little modulation. It is not clear to me how well or ill director Michael Richey tutored his cast on the dialog’s meaning (I can’t help but notice the lack of a dramaturge among the production staff — probably a major sin of omission in any Shakespeare production), but more often than not there appears to be insufficient understanding of their lines. At times this holds true even when surely the actor does know what he’s saying. I have no doubt, for example, that Jed Sura knows when he says “Is this a dagger which I see before me” that his character [See Curtain Call, p.11]
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Scary Stories Returns to Angels Gate By Andrea Serna, Arts and Culture Writer
As a child Melanie Jones lived in Japan while her father served in the U.S. Navy. Deprived of American TV she turned to radio which was broadcast by the military. Her favorite show was the Peabody Award winning series Suspense, known as “radio’s outstanding theater of thrills.” She and her sister would take a transistor radio and hide under the covers on Saturday evening shivering in fear to the tales of horror. The days of radio were already fading in the United States, but in a foreign country the imaginations of children could work overtime listening to stories written to keep you awake at night. Writers such as Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Wells provided scripts performed by Hollywood’s premier actors of the day. Jones retains her love of drama and for the 17th year she will present Scary Stories
at Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro. Scary Stories 17 promises to spark your imagination with tales of terror read aloud in the dark, around a bonfire. “Human beings since the beginning of time loved to sit around a communal fire and tell stories,” Jones said. “That was the original entertainment. That’s what this is, only with sound effects. The stories are a mix of things that are scary and sometimes things that are humorous. Fear reminds you of your connectedness to things. Even when you are up against forces that you don’t understand, and in these stories people save themselves with whatever skills they may have. There are lots of things in life that can be very frightening and come at you from surprising angles … indulging the unpredictability is a way to acknowledge
those feelings in a productive way.” Jones is joined this year by readers Heather Handwerk and Bill Wolski reading works by Shel Silverstein, Carol Gorman, Chris Priestly and David Lubar, among others. Handwerk is a member of Actors Equity Association and Screen Actors Guild, appearing with American Musical Theater of San Jose, LA Theater Center, Norris Theatre, Little Fish Theatre and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts Co. She offers private coaching and teaches workshops, Love Your Voice and Being Home. Heather lives locally with her husband and their two daughters. Wolski grew up in Cleveland but has called LA home for the past 17 years. He’s a company member at Little Fish Theatre, where he has given more than 300 performances over the past 13 seasons. Jones, who appears as The Witch, has bewitched audiences as Emily Dickinson in The
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A witch’s welcome to Scary Stories at Angels Gate Cultural Center.
Downtown Books and Art CONRAD BUFF
Downtown Books and Art presents select works by Conrad Buff (1886-1975), a primarily realistic painter of the American Southwest. In 1905 Buff emigrated to the United States, painting in Arizona. He and his wife, Mary Marsh wrote and illustrated many children’s books, several of which were nominated for Caldecott and Newbery awards. In the 1920s Buff developed friendships with the modernist architects Rudolph Schindler and Richard Neutra, and the artist, Maynard Dixon. He accompanied Dixon on painting trips through the Southwest, and executed two mural commissions with Dixon in the late 1920s. Works of Conrad Buff can be viewed on First Thursday, Nov. 7, 5 to 9 p.m. Downtown Books and Art, 414 W. 6th St., San Pedro.
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Belle of Amherst, and cast her various spells on stages all over the country, both as a performer and director. Previously she was artistic director at Little Fish Theatre. This unique, annual event showcases unforgettable tales for the Halloween season. The audience provides the visual effects with your own imagination, inspired by the bonfire, the night, the evocative readings and the marvelous sound effects. This year’s performance will feature all new stories. Jones recommends to bring your own seating and dress warmly, but free folding chairs are available on site. Picnics are welcome. Time: 6:30 p.m. Oct. 26 Cost: $5 general admission, children free Details: angelsgateart.org/events-calendar/ Venue: Angels Gate Cultural Center, 3601 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro
(Macbeth)[...] is hallucinating or being haunted [...], yet there is no shift in tone to differentiate this startling experience from how he felt during the previous line, when he simply told his servant to go to bed.
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• The fight choreography is painfully stilted. • The sound design detracts more than it adds. The main offender is a single trumpet flourish that repeats ad nauseam, often to no apparent purpose. • Where Macbeth should feel big — even if only with the aid of suspension of disbelief — is where it feels smallest. For example, the banquet in Macbeth’s castle once he is king is five people sitting at something smaller than a picnic table. What works? Well... Although I don’t much care for
Shakespeare’s employment of the Witches as a device, at least Richey and his trio of Brendan Kane, Courtney King, and Iris Sura give us a hissing, over-the-top take I haven’t quite seen before, something along the lines of the ghouls you can find at the Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor right now. Particularly good during the “Double, double, toil and trouble” bit. There are a couple of good lighting cues in that scene, too. The costumes are good (except for Macbeth’s armor, which is basically a studded
leather vest). Although I don’t much care for the comic relief Shakespeare inserts into this tragedy, Andy Kallok’s monolog on the dichotomy of alcohol’s effect on sexual desire and a man’s ability to act on it gave the groundlings some good laughs. I appreciate how hard it is — even for long-established theatre companies with far more resources than are available to the House of Bards — to do Shakespeare well. And I appreciate the obvious effort made by all involved here. And no doubt my feelings about the play did not predispose me to enjoy what I saw here. For all that, there’s simply no getting around the fact that this show comes up short. Times: 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Friday, 2 p.m. Sunday (no show Sept. 27), through Nov. 3 Cost: $20-$60 Details: 310-279-7534; HouseOfBards.org Venue: Grand Annex, 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro
NOV 7 5-9 pm
PacArts Gallery
MARIO DRED LOPEZ: KALEIDOSCOPE DREAMS
Michael Stearns Studio@The Loft FAREWELL: ASSEMBLAGE, INSTALLATION AND PAINTING
Pinta*Dos Philippine Art Gallery
RECUERDOS ~ SOUVENIRS: ELISEO “EL1SY” ART SILVA
Details: (310) 514.9139; www.pintadosgallery. com
Details: (562) 436-0700; www.engagedaging.org
Peggy Silvert, Nothing is Everything.
Peggy Silvert’s current work explores the symbolic parallels of the horse to our evolving civilization. Ben Zask’s assemblages of recycled materials are installed in three rooms representing war, music and climate crisis. The pieces are intended to have the viewer connect on an emotional level, with each room having a different impact on viewers’ sense of urgency. The show opens on First Thursday Art Walk, Nov. 7, 6 to 9 p.m. Artists’ reception Sunday, Nov. 10, 2 to 5 p.m. Through Dec. 22. Michael Stearns Studio@The Loft, 401 S. Mesa St., San Pedro. Enter the Loft at the loading dock on 4th St.
Eliseo Art Silva, Girl with Camera.
Studio Gallery 345
Mario Dred Lopez is an upcoming artist from Wilmington. As a student, he was always interested and inspired by street art. In 2002, Mario became a member of the Slanguage Art Collective, founded by artists Mario Ybarra and Karla Diaz. Slanguage works with local artists, curators and historians on projects and workshops. In 2008, he traveled to New York as a featured artist in the exhibit Black Squirrel Society at the Lehmann Maupin Gallery. Kaleidoscope Dreams opens Nov. 7, 6 to 9 p.m. and runs through Jan. 31, 2020. See more of Mario’s work at mario_dred_ lopez@instagram.com PacArts Gallery, 303 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro. Presented by EngAGE Inc.
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Recuerdos ~Souvenirs, was organized by Edwin Ramoran an independent curator for Pinta*Dos Art Gallery. The exhibit is open free to the public through Nov. 23. Hours: Wed. through Fri., 3 to 6 p.m. and by appointment. Pinta*Dos Philippine Art Gallery, 479 W. 6th St., Suite 108, San Pedro.
Details: 562-400-0544
Details: 310-545-0832 or 310-374-8055; artsail@roadrunner. com or www.patwoolleyart.com.
Brought to you by the artists and restaurants of the Downtown San Pedro Waterfront Arts District
October 24 - November 6, 2019
Pat Woolley
Studio 345 presents paintings by Pat Woolley and Gloria D Lee. Open 5 to 9 p.m. on First Thursday and by appointment. Studio 345, 345 W. 7th St., San Pedro.
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W
hile not to the same degree as following Barbara Streisand, it must have been tough to host Alpine Village’s annual Oktoberfest celebration this year. This past year was the 50th anniversary of the Alpine Village being built in the unincorporated strip of land next to the 110 Freeway near Torrance. It was a grand affair as one would expect from a golden anniversary, but this year, the event has shrunk. In scale if not in festive atmosphere. The official reason given by Alpine Village in their marketing materials is that this year is a “Throwback Oktoberfest,” which sees the grand outdoor tents of the “Beer Garden” removed in favor of moving indoors to the Alpine Village restaurant only, much like it was when they started the annual celebration in 1969. (Yes, that means that this year is the actual 50th anniversary of the Oktoberfest celebration at Alpine Village, but last year was the anniversary of the location being in existence.) “The rumor has been that maybe they’re selling this place, so maybe they’re scaling back,” said Jennifer Flick, a frequent Oktoberfest-attendee from Torrance. “But I don’t know, I like this. It feels like it’s slightly
Oktoberfest at Alpine Village:
The Home of Much Needed Tradition, Comradery and Beer By Adam R. Thomas, Reporter
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Attendees partook in the revelry of Oktoberfest during the final weeks of the beer celebration at the Alpine Village. Photo by Adam R. Thomas
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more intimate. I also feel like it’s definitely secured a little bit more. It seems a bit more mellow this year. Which I’m not gonna lie, I kinda like.” While Alpine Village’s management would not comment on rumors of any sale of the property, and a “concerned citizens” Facebook group is campaigning to nominate the landmark as a historic site with Los Angeles County on Oct. 25, Flick isn’t wrong. Moving from the grand outdoor tenting of years past to the entirely indoor restaurant has done something to the Torrance tradition. It’s become cozy. Comfortable even. For within the still rather large property of the restaurant, with its mezzanine above a
central dance floor and long series of “bier hall” communal tables, the place fills up fast with people only minutes after opening. While guests grab food in the cafeteria style back all – mostly traditional German comfort food favorites – they mingle at the festival style benches and the atmosphere is much less raucous than one might expect, at least, at the start of the night. It’s good, hearty food too. Wonderfully moist sausages and Germanic-fried potatoes give you plenty of savory flavors to well, savor, while the surprisingly sweet sauerkraut provides a wonderful counterbalance to the palate. The pretzels however, while large and with wonderfully warm dough, seem to have
more salt than necessary. They are, perhaps, an acquired taste. Of course, it’s Oktoberfest, so the main event as far as consumables go is the beer which flows freely at multiple bars throughout the restaurant. This year Alpine Village partnered with Hofbräuhaus to bring their centuries of experience making beer all the way from Bavaria with three flavors on tap: the signature Oktoberfest golden lager, a Hefeweizen and the Dunkel. It’s easy to see why the lager is the biggest hit with most who attend. It not only tastes great, but it’s incredibly smooth and you can find your stein emptier far faster than you’d expect. It might be a bit dangerous for those who are only used to domestic lagers. This lager has a rather high degree of alcohol content at 6.3 percent. The lighter and fruitier Hefeweizen may be a bit too fruity for those that start the night with the seasonal lager, but it stands out well for those who want a touch more sweetness. The Dunkel is beautiful this report has had in years. Jeramy Duncan, the manager for Hofbräuhaus’ California region, explained that what separates their imported beer from more locally sourced brews is actually simplicity itself. “We follow the ‘Reinheitsgebot,’ which is the German purity law. Which just says that we’re going to use grain, water, hops, and yeast and that’s it. No adding fruit or adjuncts or barrel aging or anything like that. It’s just … beer.” It’s not long into the night before the other main event (aside from the brews) appears and takes to the stage: the Oom-Pah-Pah band. Only, this year’s Oom-Pah-Pah band is filled with a much younger set of musicians than in year’s past. The change is even reflected in the band’s name, Haderlumpen: Next Generation, referring to the fact that the group was started by the son of one of the former bands that would come to Alpine Village in years past. This new Oom-Pah-Pah band feature European members trained in jazz music and more than able to belt out traditional tunes on the brass here in the
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A MUSIC Oct. 25
Friday Night Jazz Professionals Dine on good food and relish good music in an English Pub. Time: 7 p.m. Oct. 25 Cost: Free Details: 310-832-0363; www.whaleandale.com Venue: The Whale & Ale, 327 W. 7th St., San Pedro
Oct. 26
Princeology 4 Costume Party Costumes encouraged, but not required. DJ Crucial will be back with deep cuts the radio won’t play. Time: 8:30 p.m. Oct. 26 Cost: $15 to $20 Details: www.Bit.ly/2FtJYd8 Venue: 313 E. Carson St., Carson Mariachi Night Gather with friends and enjoy a night of Mariachi in the Museum of Latin American Art Sculpture Garden. Be serenaded and dance under open air to Mariachi Arcoiris de Los Angeles y Mariachis Lindas Mexicanas. Time: 7 to 10 p.m. Oct. 26 Cost: $25 Details: 562-437-1689; www.molaa.org Venue: MoLAA, 628 Alamitos Ave., Long Beach
Oct. 27
Nov. 1 First Fridays at First The recital series presents Founding member of the famed Calder Quartet, cellist Eric Byers, with fellow USC Thornton alumni pianist Robert Thies. Time: 12:15 p.m. Nov. 1
Nov. 2
Soul Sacrifice Enjoy the music of Santana with Chuck Alvarez, Ed Callen, Adam Idell, Jerryl Thompson, Paul Vargas, Chico Hernandez and Armando Fuentez. Time: 8 p.m. Nov. 2 Cost: $25 Details: www.alvasshowroom.tix. com Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro
THEATER Oct. 24
Macbeth The new House of Bards Theatre Co. debuts with Shakespeare’s gripping tale of power and malice. Time: 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 2 p.m. Sun. Oct. 24 through Nov. 3 Cost: $20 to $60 Details: www.tinyurl.com/ macbeth-grandvision Venue: Grand Annex, 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro
Nov. 2 Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley The story begins two years after the conclusion of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as the Bennet family gathers at Pemberley, the home of Elizabeth and her husband, Mr. Darcy. Mary, the quiet, bookish sister, has grown tired of watching her sisters’ romantic escapades and has yet to find a beau of her own. Time: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, through Nov. 30 Cost: $14 to $24 Details: 562-494-1014; www.lbplayhouse.org Venue: Long Beach Playhouse, 5021 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach One Small Step The race between the United States and Soviet Union to send the first human to the moon is an inventive, funny and surprisingly moving, action-packed show. Time: 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. Nov. 2 Cost: $15 to $25 Details: 310-781-7171 Venue: James Armstrong Theatre, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance Four Queens Ted Lange’s comedic play invites you to listen in on the brazen, bawdy conversations of four women who meet weekly to play cards. Time: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 2, 3 Cost: $30 Details: www.mercurystage.org Venue: Ken Miller Assembly Room, 3341 Torrance Blvd., Torrance
ART
Oct. 24
Local Notions San Pedro Artists Juried by Kristina Newhouse, curator of the Kleefeld Contemporary at California State University Long Beach, this exhibition features works by
artists living or working in San Pedro, showcasing the best of our community. The exhibition runs through Dec. 14. Galleries are open Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 24 Cost: Free Details: www.angelsgateart.org Venue: Angels Gate Cultural Center, 3601 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro Root Cause The Long Beach City College Visual and Media Arts Department and sculpture program invites you to the opening reception of Root Cause, curated by Coleen Sterritt. The exhibition runs to Nov. 7. Time: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Oct, 24 Cost: Free Details: 562-938-4815 Venue: LBCC, 4901 Carson St., Long Beach
Oct. 26
Identity Flags Learn how to make Maritime Flags. These flags are hung on boats to alert and share information whether it’s friendly or not and if it can even communicate its cargo. Time: 3 to 6 p.m Oct. 26 and Nov. 2 Details: 310-519-0936; www.angelsgateart.org Venue: Angels Gate Cultural Center, 3601 S. Gaffey St., Building G, San Pedro Long Beach Open Studio Tour In celebration of Long Beach’s Arts Month local artists will be opening up their studios to visitors for the LB Open Studio Tour. Come see your local artists in their working environments that are not usually open to the public. Time: 12 to 5 p.m. Oct. 26, 27 Cost: Free Details: http://lbopenstudiotour. com Venue: Wrigley Hub Long Beach Like the Ocean with Alexis Slickelman Create an ocean using tiles and collaborate with the community to make a mural. Time: 3 to 6 p.m Oct. 26 and Nov. 9 Details: 310-519-0936; www.angelsgateart.org Venue: Angels Gate Cultural Center, 3601 S. Gaffey St., Building F, San Pedro Painted Architecture Painted Architecture brings together a circle of a spiritually like-minded fellowship and presents to the audience the best of Estonian art juxtaposed with the architectural paintings of Latvian artists. Time: 2 to 5 p.m. Oct 26 Cost: Free Details: juri@veniceica.org Venue: Venice Institute of Contemporary Art, 401 S. Mesa St., San Pedro
Nov. 5 One Artist Five Oceans Artist Talk Danielle Eubank will discuss the process of documenting the world’s oceans and her travels, which have included expeditions aboard replica historic tall ships. View her new exhibition at the Aquarium of the Pacific before the lecture from 6:30 to 7 p.m. Time: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Nov. 5 Cost: $5
Farewell Peggy Silvert and Ben Zask in a mixed media exhibition Farewell. Silvert uses imagery of powerful horses in action to understand parallels of the horse to our evolving civilization. Zask’s found object assemblages challenge the viewer to connect on an emotional level with a sense of urgency in the face of climate change. The exhibition runs through Dec. 22. Time: 2 to 5 p.m. Nov. 10 Cost: Free Details: 562-400-0544; michaelstearnsstudio@gmail.com Venue: Michael Stearns Studio at the Loft, 401 S. Mesa St., San Pedro Kaleidiscope Dreams Mario Dred Lopez was amazed by street art as a child. He published an early piece of art in the Wilmington High School yearbook. Over two decades later, Mario is showing and selling his artwork through social media and local art shows. He expresses himself through his artwork while building a relationship with the beholders. Time: 6 p.m. Nov. 7 Cost: Free Details: www.engagedaging.org Venue: PacArts Gallery 303 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro
FILM
Oct. 26
Beetlejuice Dust off your dancing shoes and get ready for a special screening of Tim Burton’s cult-classic, Beetlejuice. After Barbara and Adam Maitland die in a car accident, they find themselves stuck haunting their country residence, unable to leave the house. Time: 11 a.m. Oct. 26 Cost: $9 to $12 Details: www.boxoffice. diamondticketing.com Venue: Art Theatre Long Beach, 2025 E. 4th St., Long Beach
Nov. 3
Quadrophenia Quadrophenia, a cult movie of the English Mods and scooter scene is celebrating its 40th anniversary and will be screening at Elinor. Are you a Mod or a Rocker? Time: 2 to 6 p.m. Nov. 3
Nov. 5
Playing with Fire In association with art exhibition B.A.T. State III, the intimate story of the legendary painter Carlos Almaraz, chronicles the life of an extraordinary artist and examines his impact on the Chicano Art Movement as well as the challenges and explorations through sexuality and art movements around the globe. Time: 5 to 7 p.m. Nov. 5 Cost: Free Details: www.tinyurl.com/playing withfirefilm Venue: CSULB University Theater, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach
FOOD Nov. 3
Horn of Plenty Fall Flavors Join in celebrating the flavors of fall with produce expert Robert Schueller and PacFAB Director Tracey Mitchell,whoe will be presenting a cooking demo, and tasting. Afterward, Robert will have a book signing on several books on the creative preparation of fine produce. RSVP. Time: 2 to 3:30 p.m. Nov. 3 Cost: Free Details: www.pacificfood.org Venue: Pacific Food & Beverage Museum 731 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro
LITERATURE Nov. 2
Women Who Rock Author Evelyn McDonnel will read and sign her book on the women of rock ‘n’ roll. Time: 4 to 7 p.m. Nov. 2 Cost: Free Details: 562-588-7075; www.facebook.com/patmbooks Venue: Page Against the Machine, 2714 W. 4th St., Long Beach
WELLNESS Nov. 3
Meditation Open guided meditation and book study is hosted every other Sunday. Time: 9 to 10:30 a.m. Nov. 3 Cost: Free Details: 310-519-0936
Venue: Angels Gate Cultural Center, 3601 S. Gaffey St. San Pedro
COMMUNITY Oct. 25
4th Fridays on 4th Street There will be extended store hours, food and drink specials, free trolly rides, live music, in store pop-ups and specials, art shows and a bike valet. Time: 6 to 9 p.m. Oct. 25 Cost: Free Details: 4thstreetlongbeach.com Venue: 4th Street from Temple to Cherry Avenue, Long Beach Filipino Heritage Tour of Carson In conjunction with RecuerdosSouvenirs, currently showing at Pinta*Dos Philippine Art Gallery, artist Eliseo “EL1SY” Art Silva will conduct a tour of his Carsonbased “recuerdos.” Time: 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Oct. 25 Cost: Free Details: 310-514-9139; info@pintadosgallery.com Venue: Rizal Monument, Carson Civic Center, 701 E. Carson St., Carson
Oct. 26 Third Annual LGBTQ+ Coming Out Community Picnic Celebrating the diverse and vibrant LGBTQ+ community in Houghton Park for a familyfriendly afternoon of events and activities. Time: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 26 Cost: Free Details: 562-434-4455; www.centerlb.org. Venue: Houghton Park, 6301 Myrtle Ave. Long Beach Pit Bull Appreciation Day Live Love Animal Rescue and Lucky Dog Humane Education partner with Blockhead Brigade on this community event featuring guest celebri-pitties, favorite pit bull-centric non-profit groups, local vendors, dog adoptions, a pack walk, yummy food, pet portraits, a pit bull muralist, humane education, fostering info and training demos All breeds, mixes, and mutts welcome. Time: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 26 Cost: Free Details: www.liveloveanimal rescue.org Venue: Marine Stadium Long Beach, 5255 E. Paoli Way, Long Beach
Halloween & Dia de los Muertos Events Oct. 26 The Nightmare Before Christmas Sing-along Join Jack Skellington and his merry cast of ghouls, monsters, zombies and vampires in Halloween Town as they learn to celebrate Christmas. Based on a poem by Tim Burton. Time: 7 p.m. Oct. 26 Cost: $9 to $12 Details: www.tickets.vendini. com Venue: Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro Women Making a Difference The Jewel Box Children’s Theater Jr. Theater Troupe will be joining us at the 24th Annual Historical Cemetery Tour for a special readers theater presentation. Time: 9 to 3 p.m. Oct. 26 Cost: $20 to $25
Details: 562-424-2220 www.heslb.org Venue: Sunnyside and Memorial Cemeteries, 1095 E. Willow St., Long Beach Sea Scare and Trunk or Treat Sea Scare is back and more spooktacular than ever! Enjoy all the chills, thrills and gills you love —plus new this year, Trunk or Treat. Dive into candy and sweets trick or treating at more than 30 trunks. Time: 7 to 10 p.m. Oct. 26 Cost: $5 to $10 Details: www.tinyurl.com/ seascaretrunkortreat Venue: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, 3720 Stephen M. White Dr., San Pedro Scary Stories Snuggle up around the bonfire for an all-new program of spellbinding stories suitable for young and old,
living and...shhhhhh. Bring your own seating. Picnics welcome. Time: 6:30 p.m. Oct. 26 Cost: $5 Details: www.angelsgateart. org Venue: Angels Gate Cultural Center, 3601 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro Happy Hauntings Trick or treat through a haunted Point Fermin Lighthouse. Time: 1 to 4 p.m. Oct. 26 Cost: Free Details: 310-241-0684; www. pointferminlighthouse.org Venue: Point Fermin Lighthouse, 807 W. Paseo del Mar, San Pedro
October 24 - November 6, 2019
Los Cancioneros Master Chorale Music can transport you and that is just one of its many blessings. If we focus on “imagination” the musical possibilities become endless. Enjoy an evening of musical imagining. Time: 7 p.m. Oct. 27 Cost: $15 to $25 Details: 310-781-7171 Venue: James Armstrong Theatre, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance
Cost: Free Details: 310-316-5574; www.palosverdes.com/ ClassicalCrossroads/firstFridays. htm Venue: First Lutheran Church & School, 2900 W. Carson St., Torrance
Nov. 7
Cost: Free Details: www.eventbrite.com/e/ quadrophenia-40th-anniversaryscreening-matinee-tickets Venue: Elinor, 250 N. Tribune Ct., Long Beach
Hot Fusion Jazz Ezzi/Jazz brings its unique brand of entertainment to The Whale & Ale along with a cavalcade of their many friends. Time: 4 p.m. Oct. 27 Cost: Free Details: 310-832-0363; www.whaleandale.com Venue: The Whale & Ale, 327 W. 7th St., San Pedro
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Details: www.tinyurl.com/ oneartistfiveoceans Venue: Aquarium of the Pacific, 100 Aquarium Way, Long Beach
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Andy Cahan with Soñador Andy Cahan, solo artist and former member of The Turtles, found himself among luminaries like Jimi Hendrix, Ringo Starr, Frank Zappa and Dr. John. The former music director for The Grammys and American Bandstand, Cahan is on speaking and performing tours while finishing a book on his life’s work. Time: 4 p.m. Oct. 27 Cost: $15 Details: www.alvasshowroom.tix. com Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro
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Long Beach Zombie Walk Calling all rotting, brain-
[See Calendar, page 14]
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Halloween & Día de los Muertos Events [Calendar, from p. 13] eating, flesh-dripping folks in varying states of decay. Join Shoreline Village for celebration of all things undead, including live music, vendors, and of course, a ghoulish walk/shuffle down Rainbow Harbor. Time: 4 to 10 p.m. Oct. 26 Cost: Free Details: www.shorelinevillage. com Venue: 401-435 Shoreline Village Drive, Long Beach El Dorado Nature Center Howl-oween Join the El Dorado Nature Center for creepy crawlers and haunted hoots, as you trick and treat your way along the trails. Don’t forget to wear your Howl-oween finest. This is a family friendly event. Parent participation is required for children under 16 years. Time: 2 to 6 p.m. Oct. 26 Cost: Free Details: 562-570-1745; www.longbeach.gov/nature center Venue: El Dorado Nature Center, 7550 E. Spring St., Long Beach
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The Historical Society of Long Beach Living History Tour The tour features graveside performances by actors who relate the life and demise of the person[s] lying at rest. The tour is family-friendly and appropriate for all ages and there is nothing scary about the vignettes or the location. Gates open at 8:30 a.m. Performances run 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Time: 9 a.m. Oct. 26 Cost: $1 to $25 Details: 562-424-2220; www.hslb.org Venue: Sunnyside & Municipal Cemeteries, 1095 & 1151 E. Willow St., Long Beach
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Popfuji Halloween Join a spooky Halloween costume dance party edition of the Popfuji concert series. Fartbarf will bring their mutant synth sounds to the Brouwerij West stage, along with Ottto, Clown Sounds, Liive Wire and DJ Homie Paul E Wog.
Time: 5 p.m. to 12 a.m. Oct. 26 Cost: Free Details: www.ticketweb.com Venue: Brouwerij West, 110 E. 22nd St., San Pedro
Oct. 31
Halloween at Lomita Park Join a costume parade, carnival games, balloon twisting, pumpkin decorating and a Halloween DJ. Time: 6 to 8 p.m. Oct 31 Cost: Free Details: 310-326-0140; www.lomita.com/cityhall Venue: Lomita Park, 24428 Eshelman Ave., Lomita; Halloween at the Bathhouse Bring your little ones for candy, games and arts and crafts, plus a costume contest, ages 5 to 12 years. Time: 4 to 8 p.m. Oct. 31 Cost: Free Details: 310-548-7554 Venue: Cabrillo Beach Bathhouse, 3800 Stephen M. White Drive, San Pedro
Día de los Muertos Oct. 27 8th Annual San Pedro Día de Los Muertos Experience a vibrant and historic downtown filled with a live entertainment lineup including energetic and globallyinspired performances by twotime Grammy Award-winning performers, Mariachi Divas, and celebrated local headliners including Aztec dancers, Cunao and Trio Ellas Time: 3 to 9 Oct. 27 Cost: Free Details: www.tinyurl.com/ diadelosmuertosSanPedro Venue: Downtown San Pedro, 390 W. 7th St.
Nov. 1 First Fridays Day of the Dead Celebration Join First Fridays for our annual Day of the Dead celebration complete with sugar skulls, traditional music and art and a
[Oktoberfest, from p. 12]
Oktoberfest
states. “It’s a great opportunity to come to America and experience the world,” says Rebekka Rebmann, who plays clarinet for Haderlumpen. “Americans are great! Perhaps it’s just coming here, this place, but everyone treats us well.” Haderlumpen does their job exceedingly well. They start out the night focusing primarily on playing German standards from the stage, but once the crowd is good and sloshed, they pick up the energy and start jumping onto tables and leading contestants in drinking contests and chicken dances. Every few minutes, the band’s leader, Phillip Drenkard, leads the whole venue to toast and drink at once with the familiar chant of, “Zicke zacke, zicke zacke, hoi, hoi, hoi!” There’s a sense of community in this moment and space, created in part by the band’s engaging in call and response drinking chants, but also created by the seating arrangements which place strangers right next to each other. It is in this space where the magic happens at Alpine Village’s Oktoberfest. Angelenos spend a lot of time driving
community altar. Time: 6:30 to 9 p.m. Nov. 1 Cost: Free Details: www.bixbyknollsinfo. com Venue: Bixby Knolls, 4321 Atlantic Ave., Long Beach
Nov. 2 Día de Muertos, Dominguez Rancho Adobe The public is invited to view ofrendas honoring the dead, live performances by Semillitas Preschool’s Aztec Dancers, Ballet Folklorico Alma de Oro de Carson and Mariachi Academy of Carson; in addition, Mexican cuisine, arts and crafts will be available for purchase. Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 2 Cost: Free Details: 310-603-0088 Venue: Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum, 18127 S. Alameda St., Rancho Dominguez Día de los Muertos and Avalon Join the Cultural Alliance 4th Anniversary celebration with artists, vendors, food trucks, music and a beer garden. Time: 5 to 10 p.m. Nov. 2 Cost: Free Details: www.wilmingtonartwalk. com Location: Avalon Boulevard between C and E streets, Wilmington
Nov. 3 Día de los Muertos Family Festival Explore Día de los Muertos, a vibrant celebration of life and loved ones at Museum of Latin American Art’s annual family festival. Learn more about this cultural tradition through art workshops, live performances, gallery tours and an interactive community altar, face painting, food and unique artisan vendors. Time: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 3 Cost: Free Details: www.molaa.org Venue: MoLAA, 628 Alamitos Ave., Long Beach
alone in their cars, separated but always in competition with one another. We continue the race at school or at work. We continue this isolated competition against our neighbors and online on social media. You don’t go to Alpine Village to get drunk on the beer – though it is good – you go there to get drunk on the people— people you meet for perhaps just one night, or perhaps will become lifelong friends, but people who live here with you, only you didn’t know it yet. It would be a tragedy for a such an experience to leave LA, let alone the South Bay. We simply don’t have enough staples of our community like this holding us together anymore. “It’s great,” said Kathy Montoya, an eightyear veteran said at Oktoberfest on opening night. “It keeps up that tradition. People don’t keep up with tradition anymore.” Times: 6 p.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday, 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday, through Oct. 27 Cost: $10 to $22 Details: 310-327-4384; www.alpinevillagecenter.com/oktoberfest Venue: Alpine Village, 833 Torrance Blvd., Torrance
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Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2019258767 The following person is doing business as:(1) RDS Consulting, 1180 W 7th Street Apt #1, San Pedro, CA 90731, Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Rodel Filio, 1180 W 7th Street Apt #1, San Pedro, CA 90731. This Business is conducted by an individual. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: 01/2012. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/. Rodel Filio, owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Sept. 26, 2019. Notice--In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920. A fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920 where it expire 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and
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1 Technique taught at the Groundlings and UCB 7 Here, in Paris 10 Like 7 or 13 13 Airport serving Tokyo 14 Magnetic metal 15 “La ___ en Rose” 16 ___ Berry Farm (California theme park) 17 1991 De Niro thriller, or what you shouldn’t have when answering the theme clues? 19 “Caribbean” plant more commonly called allspice 21 Holy Roman leader (abbr.) 22 Golf course supply 23 Piano exercises 26 “I’m off!” 28 Chiwetel Ejiofor, in 2019’s “The Lion King” 31 Donut maneuver 32 Start of many rap names 35 Cracker in sleeves 37 ___ Wonder (Robin’s nickname) 38 Puzzle activities where you want to leave? 41 Film street of nightmares 43 Turn from bad to mad, maybe? 44 Luau paste 45 Inventive Goldberg 47 “Eat It or ___ It” (Smosh Pit show on YouTube) 49 “Diary of ___ Black Woman”
(2005 film) 53 Phobic 55 Old saying 58 Drink that may be pale or Scotch 59 Key ingredients in boba tea 63 1990s web browser now owned by Verizon 65 Silent film’s successor 66 Olive loved by Popeye 67 Scott Turow memoir about law school 68 More malevolent 69 Small, in Scotland 70 Former M&M hue 71 Can’t stand
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1 Type of computer printer 2 Bahrain’s capital (not to be confused w/ a Central American country) 3 On time 4 “One Day at a Time” star Moreno 5 Super Bowl XXV MVP Anderson 6 Explorer ___ da Gama 7 “Dies ___” (“Day of Wrath”) 8 Duracell battery feature 9 Unskillful 10 Adds vocals to, maybe 11 ___ de los Muertos 12 ___ Spiegel 14 Gathering of the Juggalos band, to fans 18 Family conflict 20 Freemium game breaks, often
24 “Achtung Baby” coproducer Brian 25 Tough section of a jigsaw puzzle, maybe 27 “Happy Days” hangout 29 Minotaur’s island 30 Go on the radio 33 Neat drink’s lack 34 “The People’s Princess” 36 Where zebras may be spotted 38 Fortify for fighting 39 Pizzeria order 40 “Pulp Fiction” role 41 “Nurse Jackie” settings 42 “Star Trek” captain Jean___ Picard 46 Notable timespans 48 Org. with wands and X-ray machines 50 The Duchess of Sussex’s original surname 51 Partners 52 Dry zone 54 Center of Disney World 56 Director Michael of the “Up” series (now at “63 Up” in 2019) 57 Make on a loom 60 Amenable 61 Cartoon unit 62 Hit the ground 63 Right this moment 64 Knack for detail 67 Daily ___ (political blog)
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Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2019269762 The following person is doing business as:(1) 911 Rooter & Sewer Specialist, 25029 Vermont Avenue, Harbor City CA 90710 County of Los Angeles. Registered owners: 911 Rooter & Sewer Specialist,, Inc, 1180 W 7th Street Apt #1, San Pedro, CA 90731. This Business is conducted by a corporation. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: 09/2018.
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Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2019267000 The following person is doing business as:(1) L.A. Urban Ballet, 1231 S. Pacific Ave, San Pedro, CA 90731, Los Angeles County. Registered owners: San Pedro City Ballet, 1231 S. Pacific Ave, San Pedro, CA 90731. This Business is conducted by a corporation. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/. Patrick Bradley, CFO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Oct. 7, 2019. Notice--In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920. A fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920 where it expire
I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/. Giuseppe Sanzone, President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Oct. 9, 2019. Notice--In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920. A fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920 where it expire 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of the registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code). Original filing: 10/24/2019, 11/7/2019,
Michael T. Todd passed away on Oct. 12, 2019. He is survived by his wife Christine Shea, his daughers Heather and Michelle Todd, and grandson Tyler Todd.
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40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code). Original filing: 10/10/2019, 10/24/2019,
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