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CLINTON FAILS TO DELIVER Popular Vote: Clinton 59,796,267 : Trump 59,589,809 Electoral College Votes: Clinton 228 : Trump 279
By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor female president. She seems to have won a plurality of the popular vote, leading by more than 200,000 votes at press time. But Clinton lost by a total margin of 111,000 votes in three states where Democrats have won for decades: Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, giving Donald Trump the Electoral College votes he needed for an unexpected victory. He performed significantly better than pre-election polls had predicted. Third-party candidates took more than the margin of victory in all three states. The results sent shockwaves around the world, with stocks plummeting and people pouring out their thoughts online. “The unthinkable happened before, to my family in WWII,” Star Trek star and social activist George Takei tweeted. “We got thru it. We held each other close. We kept our dignity and held to our ideals.” “When a man says he will forcefully deport 12 million immigrants in 2 years don’t tell me we don’t need an organized resistance,” Black Lives [See Clinton, page 7]
Few Surprises on an Otherwise Sad Election Night
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In 1872, Victoria Woodhull became the first woman to run for president of the United States. She was a candidate for the Equal Rights Party, campaigning on a multi-front progressive platform of women’s suffrage, regulation of monopolies, nationalization of railroads, an eight-hour workday, direct taxation, abolition of the death penalty and welfare for the poor. In 1972, Shirley Chisholm—the first AfricanAmerican woman to serve in Congress—became the first woman to run for president in the Democratic Party primary. Her platform was left of George McGovern’s. This year, 144 years after Woodhull, Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first woman to run for president as the nominee of a major party. Running on much more conventional — if still progressive — political positions, but still facing spectacular levels of visceral hostility, she was poised to become America’s first
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late father, Kenneth Hahn. His service on that body has elevated him to a status that approaches political legend. Hahn captured 56 percent of the vote to defeat Steve Napolitano, the protégé and chief of staff of four-term Supervisor Don Knabe, by an unsurprisingly large margin of 50,000 votes. Next door to Hahn’s party, similar festivities were being planned by supporters of Isadore Hall’s campaign for the 44th Congressional District seat that Hahn vacated. By the end of
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LA County Supervisor-elect Janice Hahn celebrates with supporters Nov. 8 at Ports O’Call Restaurant in San Pedro. Photo by Phillip Cooke.
Rep. Janice Hahn’s election night party was supposed to begin at 9 p.m. But from the moment results started to roll in just after 8 p.m., it became increasingly clear that Donald J. Trump was far exceeding expectations and party time was repeatedly pushed back. It was after 10:30 p.m. when the celebrating finally began. For Hahn, election night represented the completion of a journey to what seems to have been her political destiny. In winning the District 4 seat on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, she walked in the footsteps of her
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The Long Beach Police Department is again warning the community about an increase in telephone scams targeting residents and businesses throughout Long Beach. Residents have reported a scam where the caller is posing as a law enforcement official who informs the resident of an outstanding arrest warrant for failing to comply with jury service or summons. The fraudster demands payment in lieu of arrest by directing the resident to purchase a prepaid MoneyPak card. Once purchased, the victim is instructed to call back the phone number provided and disclose the serial number on the pre-paid credit/debit card. Law enforcement encourages residents not to respond or disclose personal information. Here are a few “red flags” and prevention tips: • Law enforcement agencies do not call residents concerning outstanding warrants issued for their arrest • Verify with the law enforcement agency, the name and telephone number of the purported law enforcement official who called • Superior courts will never ask for financial information such as bank accounts, credit card numbers or personal information • Never disclose to anyone over the telephone or online, your social security number, date of birth, account numbers or personal PIN number. • Do not respond to emails requesting you to update your account records, i.e. date of birth, social security number, telephone numbers, etc. If you should need to confirm your status as a juror, you may contact your respective County Superior Court at www.courts.ca.gov/ juryservice.htm.
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Tale of Two Neighborhood Councils And the Steep Learning Curve of Governing By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor
Los Angeles neighborhood councils were intended to make city government more accessible to citizens, with hope that they evolve into a bicameral governing system similar to New York City’s borough system. But two Central and Coastal Neighborhood Councils meetings this past month showed the growing pains of realizing such a system.
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Coastal Neighborhood Council president James Baeza resigned from the board last month following a reprimand from the Los Angeles Department of Neighborhood Empowerment for “non-compliance with the laws, regulations, policies and rules that apply to the governance of the council.” Baeza’s resignation followed a meeting with, and subsequent letter from, the Department’s outreach and communications director, Stephen Box. The letter addressed illegal council actions, which including: • Holding a meeting that was not compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. • Failure to comply with a public records request despite being supplied with the information. • Violating the Brown Act in several different ways. • Violating its own bylaws and standing rules at the October Agenda setting meeting. • And, creating a hostile work environment in
James Baeza. left. with former Coastal San Pedro Neghborhood Council president James Dimon at the No Excuse Rally in support of Harbor Division of the Los Angeles Police Department in January 2016. File photo.
which board members and the public felt bullied, harassed, intimidated or stalked by members of the board.
At the Oct. 17 Coastal San Pedro stakeholder meeting, Baeza used the public comment period to air his complaints against Box and Octaviano Rios, another DONE representative, who were present at Baeza’s moment in the woodshed. “I thought I was being invited down there to figure out a way to fix it …make it better. To take
stock of the mistakes we made and to improve upon ourselves to make something better than what we have.” He called the meeting a one-sided recap of a list of complaints that have been lodged against the council—complaints with which the council has been most familiar. He admitted to the ADA violation, but noted the council corrected the mistake. Baeza strongly disputed charges of anti[See Governance, page 3]
“No Nukes” Movement Founder Advises Next Generation Activists By Christian L. Guzman, Community Reporter For more than half a century, activist Harvey Wasserman has traveled the country, protesting environmental dangers and social injustices, and calling people to action. On Oct. 19, Wasserman, spoke with students at Port of Los Angeles High School. Wasserman recalled that on one of his previous visits to California, he was jailed while protesting a nuclear power plant in San Luis Obispo. “I spent three nights in jail,” quipped Wasserman with pride. “Three times as many as Henry David Thoreau.” Wasserman’s pride comes from the fact that in his protests, he carries on Thoreau’s legacy of civil disobedience. He never uses violence. “Through one night in jail, Thoreau changed the world,” Wasserman said. “He wrote a 20page essay that influenced Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.” Wasserman was not successful in shutting down the facility in San Luis Obispo. But he’s had many victories. At 15, he marched to desegregate a roller rink in Columbus, Ohio. In his 20s he helped prevent a nuclear facility from being built in Massachusetts. Recently, he
Former Los Angeles City Councilman Robert Farrell, left, with Harvey Wasserman. Farrell invited Wasserman and organized his visit to POLA High School.
helped shut down the San Onofre nuclear facility in San Diego County. “There is no better feeling than when you change the world in a positive way,” Wasserman told the students. “I recommend it.” Wasserman has changed the world through more than just protesting. While he lived on a communal farm in Massachusetts in the early
1970s, he helped pioneer organic farming. When he first got to the farm, he had no prior experience with farming. But he had an education and an open mind. “That’s the real wealth in life,” Wasserman said. “The barn-full of manure we inherited also helped.”
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Semitism in reference to the fact that the stakeholder meeting was held on the Jewish holiday Sukkot. Baeza noted that no one in DONE warned the council of the holiday and allowed the meeting to go on anyway. The Coast Council president chalked it up as another tactic by opponents on the council to stall votes they didn’t like. “Does anyone know that today is the first day of Sukkot?” Baeza asked the audience. No one knows because nobody brought it up. No one wanted to stall this meeting.” “These are the things I spent my time dealing with as president of this council,” Baeza continued. “I have not spent any of my time dealing with community improvement projects and I have not spent any of my time dealing with neighborhood purpose grants.” Baeza accused DONE of being more
interested in protecting their jobs than assisting the council, saying that the department could have stopped the meeting. “I can’t continue doing this anymore. I am out,” Baeza said. “This is cronyism and founders syndrome. This is the city of L.A. making an established bureaucracy.” Baeza took note of the salaries of the officials that are at the head of DONE, saying the general manager earns $130,000 to $140,000 a year and the next person in line earns $100,000 a year. “They are just there protecting their jobs. They are not in fact assisting this council,” Baeza said. According to records by Los Angeles Controller’s office, DONE General Manager Grayce Liu actually earns a salary of nearly $180,000 when benefits are factored in. It’s worth noting that Baeza emerged at the end of another Coastal president’s term, Dave Behar. Back then, council members attempted to officially reprimand Behar on the grounds of self dealing and lack of transparency in council
business dealings overall. Baeza resignation was similar to the way Behar announced he was not going to run for the council again three years ago.
Latino community. The settlement resulted in the city implementing an application process that will assess the environmental impacts of new, or expanding, drilling sites. Stakeholders within 1500 feet will also have a chance to give input at public hearings. Wasserman shared his vision, detailed in his book Solartopia, of a Southern California that has moved beyond relying on fossil fuels. He urged his audience and their generation to help make it happen. He said that in fifteen years every roof will have solar modules. People won’t be able to buy a gasoline powered car. The people, not industries, will control their own energy supply. “And that’s not a wild fantasy,” Wasserman said. “It’s business. Right now, there 200,000 people working in the solar industry and only 100,000 in the nuclear industry. There are 80,000 people working in the wind industry and 60,000 in the coal industry. Renewable energy is growing .... It’s a good field to get into. Tell your families that work in the refineries around here to start
training for renewable jobs.” But no matter what the students will do in the future, whether it be protesting injustices or getting an education, Wasserman passed on the importance of perseverance. “Stick with what you want to accomplish,” Wasserman said. “It might take time … You might have to retreat for a bit. But if the earth wants what you are doing and it will increase the happiness of the human race, you’ll succeed. And when you do, have a big party. You always have to celebrate.”
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Wasserman further emphasized the importance of a well-rounded education, and choosing a career because it is interesting, not because it will make someone a monetary fortune. The students had the opportunity to share their own victories. Jocelyn worked with their teacher, Rachel Bruhnke, to start an urban farm and compost heap on the Port of Los Angeles High School campus. Beatriz Carrillo and Brandon Molina, are members of the youth division of Communities for a Better Environment. They said they were plaintiffs in a lawsuit in a successful class action lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles. Before the lawsuit, the city was rubber stamping oil drilling permits for oil companies in Wilmington. This led to violations of the California Environmental Quality Act and an environmentally racist policy against the mostly
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On Oct. 18, Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council held a special board meeting prior to the 6:30 p.m. stakeholder meeting to discuss the proposed Navigation Center on Pacific Avenue. This was the council’s first meeting after Councilman Joe Buscaino’s Oct. 4 town hall meeting where he and his homeless task force were taken to task by residents angry about the lack of outreach and proposed placement of the center. The board voted to oppose the proposed location of the Navigation Center, but amended the proposal so they council could forward recommendations to go along with the council’s community impact statement. The amendment was surprising since Danielle
Sandoval and Donald Galaz were most insistent in ensuring that recommendations were offered with their rejection of the center. Those two council members were most intimately involved with the Sept. 25 rally. Before the vote, Sandoval spent several minutes recalling how much she learned while on the council’s homeless committee and working on the issue while on the council’s board. She related her own experience with homelessness as a young single mother, recalling the proliferation of liquor stores and drug addiction. She described today’s homeless situation as different from what she experienced, one marked by widespread untreated mental health problems amongst the homeless and few resources to [See Governance, page 4]
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opportunities for the downtown area. But their plans soon grew into something more. Kleinjan grew up in San Pedro and knew it well, and Smith had more than 30 years of experience in the green industry. They figured the community would benefit much more with a comprehensive plan that linked the downtown and waterfront with other parts of San Pedro. Kleinjan was particularly motivated to revitalize Pacific Avenue. “To me, Pacific Avenue is our great street,” Kleinjan said. “It’s the hometown street with small businesses. It goes from the ocean to downtown.” Smith applied for and secured a $250,000 grant from the State of California to develop the San Pedro Urban Greening Implementation Plan. To help tailor the plan to San Pedro, Kleinjan reached out to Rep. Janice Hahn’s office, Councilman Joe Buscaino’s office, local neighborhood councils and the San Pedro Chamber of Commerce. Representatives from each formed a core planning committee. The committee selected the urban planning firm, Melendrez, to make a draft of the project. In 2014, the committee invited the public to provide input on the draft; it hosted workshops, open houses and presentations at the Warner Grand Theatre. “Working with the public was enjoyable … good ideas came out of the discussions that we took back to Melendrez for them to incorporate into the plan,” Kleinjan said. The final draft plan included improving and connecting key streets in San Pedro such as
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address it. During the regular stakeholder meeting, however, Sandoval took a few moments to call out this newspaper in objection to being connected to the flyer that drew Barton Hill residents to the Sept. 25 rally. “There was an article printed in Random Lengths,” Sandoval said. “I wanted the board to know that I never conducted an interview and I never said that I was a member of this neighborhood council and I never took responsibility for passing out the flyer… I never created the flyer nor did I pass it out to the community in reference to the Navigation Center. Elise was very upset with me asking “why did I put her name on that flyer, why did I put her phone number in that flyer.” My words were misconstrued and I just wanted to make sure I was on record.” Galaz and Sandoval thought they could exchange their neighborhood council hats for community activist hats and that the two roles would never meet. They had to learn the hard way that elected officials cannot turn off their status as public leaders whenever they want. In the cases of both Baeza at Coastal and Sandoval and Galaz at Central, the learning curve of running a system of government in a pluralist society is steep, and living up to the ideals of the neighborhood council is not always easy. Visit www.randomlengthsnews.com to hear the recording of her remarks in regards to her involvement with the Sept. 25 rally.
Pacific Avenue, Harbor Boulevard and Western Avenue. These streets, along with the Downtown area, have been selected as potential sites for bioswales (which filter rainwater and allow it to permeate into the soil), landscaped medians, parklets and turf replacement. Looking farther into the future, Smith pointed out more opportunities to expand the local flora: a greenway connection to Wilmington Waterfront Park along John S. Gibson Avenue, green rooftops in downtown, a trail connecting Leland and Peck Park, urban hydroponic farming and vertical gardens on freeway support pillars. Of course, the major element of the plan was adding more trees to town. Most of the them will come from another grant the Los Angeles Conservation Corps received, the Green Innovations Grant from the California Department of Fire and Forestry. The department created the grant to reduce greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide, in urban areas. The principle is that areas with more trees are able to remove more carbon dioxide in the air, since most trees store carbon through photosynthesis. Given San Pedro’s proximity to the Port of Los Angeles and accompanying freight transport system, two significant sources of greenhouse gases, Smith considered it an excellent candidate for the grant. The department agreed. “Our grant application was rated No. 1 out of the other applicants,” Smith said. “The plan [directly] reduces carbon dioxide through sequestration by the trees. And it [indirectly] reduces carbon dioxide since the trees will shade houses, which means less air conditioning.” The Green Innovations Grant provides 1,000 trees for San Pedro’s streets, 1,500 for open spaces like Knoll Hill and the Leland Park terraces, and 500 for front yards. In the approximately 40-year life-span of the planted trees, 11,333 tons of greenhouse gases will be removed from the air. Six species will make up the bulk of the trees; the common names are California Sycamore, Canary Island Pine, Coast Live Oak, Fern Pine, London Plane Tree and Western Cottonwood. Smith said that the species were chosen because of their combination of greenhouse gas sequestration ability, shade potential and suitability for San Pedro’s climate. Half of the species are indigenous to California. Establishing trees requires water. Since California is still in a drought, San Pedro’s urban forest would not survive naturally. So it’s good that the Green Innovations Grant also provides enough funding for one year of irrigation. Kleinjan explained that the funding is going toward a customized watering truck that will acquire recycled water from Terminal Island. Smith’s (and San Pedro’s) next challenge is to ensure the future of the trees beyond that. Smith lamented that there are more government and nonprofit funds for creating projects like this than maintaining them. Kleinjan stressed that the city will need to get in sync with the Los Angeles Conservation Corps and Clean San Pedro if this project is to be successful. Smith is coordinating with the San Pedro neighborhood councils to raise stakeholder awareness of the greening plan and to get them involved. Yet, Kleinjan and Smith remain optimistic. “The community members that participated in the plan’s design were some of the most engaged I’ve ever seen,” Smith said. “Now they need the opportunity and education to support the trees.” To adopt a tree or learn more about the plan: Lacorps.org; 424 558 6458.
Shipping Industry Delays Global Warming Action No Final Plan Until 2023 By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor
On Nov. 4, the Paris climate agreement went into force, a month after crossing the threshold of enough signatories for it to go into effect. But just the week before that, the world’s shipping industry declared itself AWOL from the battle against climate change. Ever since the Kyoto Protocols were signed in 1997, air and ship transport emissions have been dealt with by separate entities and, on Oct. 28, the International Maritime Organization announced it would wait another seven years before adopting a long-term climate change plan. “It’s incredibly alarming to see this industrydominated agency continuing to dawdle on shipping pollution even as climate change accelerates,” said Kassie Siegel, director of the Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute. “This disturbing decision highlights the need for the U.S. EPA to quickly use the Clean Air Act to regulate emissions from ships. If we want to ward off a climate catastrophe, the next U.S. president must move quickly to curb greenhouse gases from both ships and airplanes.” “We are disappointed that the IMO did not agree on a greenhouse gas reduction target,” said Natural Resource Defense Council senior attorney Barbara Finamore. “Right now that means that the shipping industry is the only sector that’s not subject to a climate change agreement at this point.” The International Maritime Organization tried to pretend it was taking action, with a seven-year “roadmap” for developing a “Comprehensive
The International Maritime Organization will put dealing with air and ship transport emmissions on hold for another seven years. File photo.
IMO strategy on reduction of GHG emissions from ships,” but “there’s nothing in the roadmap,” noted John Maggs, a policy advisor at the nonprofit Seas At Risk. That may be a slight exaggeration. “The IMO agreed to some steps, but they seem rather leisurely to me, in light of the urgent nature of our climate change crisis,” Finamore said. “They have been considering shipping emissions since at least 1998. So this is nothing new.” An unspecified preliminary plan was promised for 2018, followed by a three-year period of data collection, before a final plan would be adopted in 2023. “It’s a problem because the shipping industry is responsible for an estimated 3 percent of global
[carbon dioxide] emissions, and also more than 2 percent of the global black carbon emissions, which is the second most potent climate pollutant, after CO2,” Finamore explained. “That may not seem like much, but the shipping industry is also one of the fastest growing sources of transport greenhouse gases. These emissions could grow by 50 to 250 percent by 2050, if they’re left unregulated…. That could make shipping responsible for about 17 percent in 2050, if left unregulated.” There was some good news from the IMO on other emissions, however, most notably a drastic reduction in sulfur emissions. “That was a real win for the environment when they agreed to reduce the sulfur levels in marine
fuel by 85 percent by 2020,” Finamore said. Locally, port officials tried to put a more optimistic spin on things, primarily by focusing on their own efforts. “Our actions on greenhouse gas are separate from IMOs,” said Chris Cannon, Director of Environmental Management at the Port of Los Angeles. “While we can’t comment on the IMO’s actions, we can say that the Port of Long Beach welcomes efforts to reduce the environmental impacts of global shipping operations,” said POLB spokesman Lee Peterson. “Locally, we have worked hard to reduce port-related emissions of criteria pollutants and greenhouse gases. In fact, we he have dramatically reduced such emissions in the last 10 years.” “Climate change is the biggest environmental crisis facing the world today,” Cannon said. “It’s something we have to address immediately, and I think any kind of delay is extremely concerning…. I don’t want to criticize IMO, because they do a lot of good things. I was pleased that they agreed to adopt an initial greenhouse strategy in 2018.” He also praised the sulfur and nitrogen oxide programs cited by Finamore. But Cannon’s preferred focus was on POLA’s own actions. “We’ve done planning and testing for equipment that will reduce our carbon footprint,” he said. “The basic approach is to transition away from combustion-based engine sources. We have to move away from that as quickly as we can, with the understanding that some technologies are still under development. So we are begging to test these types of technologies right now, and in the coming months we are really going to be involved in some in-depth planning for greenhouse gas control and policies.”
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Campaign Ads Clarify Carson’s Political Divisions By Christian L. Guzman, Community Reporter A mailer from the independent expenditure committee of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers was among the torrent of political mail during the final weeks before the November 2016 general election. In it, a grinning, blue-haired circus clown almost leaped from the page with the question: “Sick of the Political Games at City Hall?” On the other side was the message: “Vote for Carson’s Team,” referring to Jawane Hilton
and Raul Murga, candidates for the Carson City Council. The punchline is that Jawane Hilton and Raul Murga weren’t a team. “I’ve never worked with Raul Murga,” Jawane Hilton told Random Lengths when asked about the mailer. “I don’t support the fliers.” The mailer was part of a series of advertisements put out by the union’s independent expenditure committee, called Good Government Carson. Each mailer posed questions such as “Who can we count on to responsibly manage Carson’s budget?” and “Who can we count on to keep Carson Safe?” Electing the Hilton-Murga team is always the answer. But since Hilton said that Murga and he are not a team, political figures in Carson view the advertisements as an attempt to mislead voters. “[The committee] is using Councilman Hilton’s name to elect their candidate…Raul Murga,” said Vera Robles Dewitt, owner of Carson Bail Bonds and former mayor of Carson. The electrical brotherhood which largely funds Good Government Carson has negotiated labor agreements with Carson under Mayor Jim Dear. It also contributed money to Dear’s latest campaign for mayor. Dear and Murga are both members of the South Bay Progressive Democratic Club. Furthermore, Murga had spoken out against Dear’s opponent for mayor, Albert Robles. In 2015, he provided evidence to the Los Angeles
County District Attorney that Robles violated the Brown Act when selecting Hilton as his replacement for the city council. Two current councilmen were campaigning to get elected, Hilton and Cedric Hicks. So Good
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Government Carson could have tried to use either councilman’s coat-tails to pull Murga into office. However on his own campaign materials Hicks displayed endorsements by Mayor Robles
The City of Carson’s character is being irrevocably altered by a frenzy of development along the Carson Street corridor. A Nov. 3 groundbreaking ceremony, for a project called Union South Bay, celebrated the coming of a luxury high-rise mixed-use project — the fourth to go up near City Hall in recent years. At the same time a mile-long street improvement is over budget and will drag on for at least another year, several reports cited. A full-service gas station and mini-mall were knocked down to make way for Union South Bay, which is being jointly developed by The Wolff Co. and Faring Capital. “The proposed 4- and 5-story wrap-style buildings will include 357 residential units as well as more than 30,000 square feet of retail space,” a press release from the Wolff Co. stated. The release also quoted Carson’s mayor, Albert Robles. “We’re happy to welcome the Wolff Co. to Carson, and believe the Union South Bay development will be a vibrant addition to our city,” Robles said. Darren Embry, project representative at Faring Capital, later explained the name. “We have officially named the project Union South Bay suggesting a point where LA and the beach cities meet and celebrating our location in the prestigious South Bay area,” Embry said. Embry also said the project was entirely privately funded and all its rental units are planned to be sold at market rate. There will not be any units specially priced at an affordable rate for seniors on fixed incomes. At the groundbreaking Carson’s city council members took turns praising the development. “This is what Carson deserves!”
Councilwoman Lula Davis-Holmes exclaimed. Elito Santarina talked about what’s going to rise in terms of buildings and amenities for veterans. “You have a destination to come to, you need to be here,” Councilman Cedrick Hicks added. “We can talk about Beverly Hills, Redondo Beach, [but] Carson is the Mecca.” Sen. Isadore Hall III also spoke, saying that the development would allow young professionals to make their first purchase. Union South Bay is one of many projects planned or under construction implementing the Carson Street Master Plan, which has been in process since 2002. According to Carson’s website, the plan is to create a beautiful, vibrant “Main Street” that would invite pedestrians, bicyclists and mass transit to make a more livable city. It’s part of creating “a distinctive mixeduse character” with “enhanced landscape for pedestrians” on a mile-long stretch between the 110 and 405 freeways. Carson’s website includes pages on the Carson Street Master Plan and monthly updates. Details range from a new façade for City Hall, to new landscaping and signage near Carson Street’s junction with the 405, to new bus benches, bike racks, utility boxes and trash cans. Landscaped bumper traffic islands are also being installed, separating parallel parking from driving lanes. This improvement (according to the city website) of Carson Street started in August 2015 and is far behind schedule. City staffer Gilbert Marquez said work on a reclaimed water line and underground utility lines was the reason for the delay. He said the budget, originally about $7 million, is now closer to $19 million.
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Clinton Wins Popular Vote buT Fails to Deliver Matter activist and writer Shaun King tweeted. “Q: How much of this result is about coastal complaisance with union decline?” independent journalist Marcy Wheeler (aka “emptywheel”) asked. “NV—Solid Dem win. Other key states— fuck you.” “Efforts to weaken union power in the Midwest sure seem to have worked,” Vox’s Matthew Yglesias chimed in. “The 2016 Dem primary, and specifically how it was tilted to Clinton by the machine, now becomes one of the darkest moments in party history,” tweeted David Sirota, of the International Business Times.
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Officials Identify Deceased Former CSULB Student LONG BEACH — The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office identified 19-year-old Jerry Vu, as the young man found dead near the Walter Pyramid on the Cal State University Long Beach campus on Nov. 4. The coroner ruled the death a suicide caused by a blunt force to his head. Vu, a resident of Huntington Beach, was last enrolled in the school during the spring of 2016.
Kemp Sentenced to Year in Prison
LONG BEACH — On Nov. 7, Long Beach-based lobbyist, Carl Kemp, was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison for failing to report more than $750,000 in income, which he received in a 6-year period, to the Internal Revenue Service. Kemp, 43, whose clients included illegal marijuana stores in Long Beach, was the owner of a public relations firm and a onetime Long Beach City Council candidate. He was ordered to pay $210,661 in restitution to the IRS to cover his back taxes. He pleaded guilty in July to subscribing to a false tax return for the year 2012. On his federal tax return for that year, Kemp reported that he had no taxable income, when his business took in about $180,000. In a plea agreement filed in court, Kemp admitted receiving a total of $754,783 in income that he failed to report on his taxes for the years 2007 through 2012.
Maersk, POLA, POLB Partner to Reduce Air Pollution SAN PEDRO— On Nov. 7, Maersk Line and the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach announced their partnership in a measure with environmental benefits of a $125 million upgrade for 12 Maersk container ships. This will involve the installation of hightech equipment to track vessel emissions and energy efficiency over the next three years, enabling more transparency and ultimately reducing the environmental impact of vessels calling at the San Pedro Bay port complex. The two ports are contributing a combined $1 million to real-time tracking systems that [See News Briefs page 10]
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ne exception was Nevada, where the Trump campaign brought a lawsuit challenging votes cast in several early voting locations that
“People all around the world had watched and waited, through the consecutive horrors of the 2016 election campaign, believing the Trump nightmare would eventually pass. But today the United States—the country that had, from its birth, seen itself as a beacon that would inspire the world, a society that praised itself as “the last best hope of earth,” the nation that had seemed to be bending the arc of history towards justice, as Barack Obama so memorably put it on this same morning eight years ago—has stepped into the abyss. Today the United States stands not as a source of inspiration to the rest of the world but as a source of fear. Instead of hailing its first female president, it seems poised to hand the awesome power of its highest office to a man who revels in his own ignorance, racism and misogyny.” — Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian from a compilation by Emily Temple entitled, “Literary Voices React to President Donald Trump, www.lithub.com
LONG BEACH—On Nov. 6, the Long Beach Police Department took Brandon Ivan Colbert, of Oklahoma, into custody in connection with the murder of 26-year-old Carina Mancera and her 4-year-old daughter, Jennabel Anaya, on Aug. 6. Mancera, Jennabel and the child’s father were walking from the store at about 10:20 p.m. near 9th Street and Locust Avenue in Long Beach, near their home, when the suspect shot and killed the mother and daughter, in front of the father. A motive for the murders has yet to be determined and the investigation remains ongoing. The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department confirmed a DNA match to Colbert Oct. 31. LASD officials connected the DNA evidence from an Aug. 27 Los Angeles Police Department arrest related to a stolen vehicle near Olympic and Westwood boulevards, officials said. He was held in lieu of $35,000 bail. In September, LBPD released a video of Colbert at a convenience store near the crime scene and aboard a Blue Line train. On Nov. 8, detectives presented the case to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office for filing consideration. Other suspects may also have been involved in the murder, officials said. A $40,000 reward for information is being offered. Anyone with information is urged to call (562) 570-7244 or visit www.LACrimeStoppers.org.
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ocally, Nanette Barragán narrowly won the 44th Congressional District’s vacant seat by a 51-49 margin. Janice Hahn, who gave up that seat to follow in her father’s footsteps as a Los Angeles County Supervisor, held a commanding lead in her District 4 race against Steve Napolitano. While Trump’s bigotry, vulgarity and childishness significantly inhibited public support for him by many in the GOP establishment, he continued to enjoy solid support in defiance of early expectations, thus allowing him to consolidate a base of voter support. “I heard it from John Boehner a week ago,” said Nicole Wallace, former George W. Bush communications director, on MSNBC. “I said, ‘What’s your message as he’s out there, a private citizen now?’ ‘Hold your nose and vote for him [Trump], for the sake of the Supreme Court.’” This logic connected with a broader Republican strategy of simply defying normal democratic norms. For a year they have refused to hold hearings on Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee. For decades they have manufactured “Clinton scandals” and then howled “cover-up” when they turn out to be nothing. This pattern repeated again with the bogus “email scandal,” and FBI Director James Comey’s unprecedented late October announcement suggesting that the FBI had uncovered some sort of new evidence only to say, “Nevermind” nine days later. There were widespread reports that an anti-Clinton clique of agents was responsible for pressuring Comey into this violation of Justice Department guidelines, which rules out doing anything to interfere in an election in the last 60 days. The GOP’s third defiance of democratic norms is its strategy of voter suppression. Before the election a flurry of lawsuits addressed a significant reduction in places to vote. A report from The Leadership Conference for Civil Rights found 868 fewer places to cast a ballot in counties previously covered by Section 5 of Voting Rights Act, which was struck down by the Supreme Court in 2013. The total number was undoubtedly higher, since it only included 381 of the 800 counties, where polling place information was available in 2012 or 2014. “Out of the 381 counties in our study, 165 of them — 43 percent— have reduced voting locations,” the report stated. But there were relatively few specific problems reported. Much harder to track is the more subtle effects due to increased difficulty of getting to the polls.
were open late because of long lines. The suit also sought the names of the poll workers at the sites. “Do you watch Twitter? Do you watch any cable news show?” the judge in the case asked, incredulously. “There are trolls who can get this information and harass people. Why would I … make information available to you about people who work at polls when it’s not already a public requirement to do so? So that those people can be harassed for doing their civic duty?” Democrats have now won the popular vote in six of the last seven presidential elections. But two of those six victories—Clinton’s this year and Al Gore’s in 2000—were transformed into defeats in the Electoral College. [Gore received approximately 540,000 more votes than George W. Bush, but Bush became the 43rd president by winning the Electoral College tally, 271 to 266.] The losses reflect the party’s far-ranging institutional weakness, which was underscored by the Democrats failure to regain control of the Senate, despite being slightly favored in preelection polls.
for middle-class majorities, accentuating longer wage-stagnation trends. Meanwhile, elites have recovered, and seem increasingly disconnected from the larger population. In the United States, a wide range of significant social indicators point to increasingly levels of political instability and potential crisis through 2020, according to a 2010 paper in Nature by cultural anthropologist Peter Turchin. Turchin just published a book-length expansion on the subject, Ages of Discord, which examines all of U.S. history in terms of a model that quantifies the main factors contributing to socio-political instability. These include popular immiseration (falling incomes, declining and health indicators), elite overproduction (too many elites competing for too few resources) and state fiscal distress (a combination of excess debt and declining trust). The model explains how non-linear feedback between different factors produces increased stability up to a turning point and then produces the opposite. This was most recently experienced in the United States around 1970. Turchin offered two thoughts. “First, our political class really doesn’t understand the population they govern,” he said in an email. “The indicators that I watch all continue to show increasing popular immiseration, so why is everybody surprised when a political entrepreneur figures out how to channel it?.... Uneducated people I know (not a scientific sample, admittedly) are actually not stupid and they don’t really believe Trump. But at least he is saying what they want to be said out loud…. Clinton, on the other hand, is perceived as a candidate of the wealthy and, worse, of foreigners (I can’t believe she accepted that large donation from Qatar during her tenure as Secretary of State).... We should expect growing intra-elite conflict, political instability, and government dysfunction…. Had Clinton won, it would be the same general trend, although particulars would, of course, change. I don’t think it will help Trump that Republicans are likely to keep control in the Congress. There is really no Republican party anymore; it has split up into three factions.” While political commentators across the board were shocked and surprised, Turchin sees more of a continuity — though not in an encouraging direction. “Unfortunately, we are still on the same disintegrative trajectory and this ‘shocking upset’ suggests that it may be entering the accelerating phase as nonlinear dynamical feedbacks are amplifying each other,” he said. At worst, this sort of dynamic is what sometimes leads societies into civil wars. But it doesn’t have to. In the 1910s and 20s, elites found ways to reverse the trends that were pulling their society apart. So, we know it can be done.
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A Stunning Defeat for America Clinton wins the popular vote but loses the election By James Preston Allen, Publisher
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Well, there you have it—a reality TV braggart has bullied his way into the Oval Office by flim-flamming the American electorate. To get there, he defied many respected national polls, especially the polls conducted by Nate Silver—the guru of political forecasting. Apparently, one of the few who got it right was filmmaker/activist Michael Moore who has been warning progressive Democrats for weeks that Trump will win. Trump did just that by amazingly narrow margins in several key battleground states including Florida, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. Election night was very depressing to say the least—especially for the 71.5 percent of Los Angeles County voters that chose Clinton. It felt more like a death in the family than a political defeat. I offer, or rather share, my condolences to all. Clinton did win the popular vote by a slim 240,000 votes out of some 118.88 million after all. But in one of our more curious American forms of democracy she lost the Electoral College vote 279 to 228. This undisputedly gives Trump the presidency even though he could be indicted and prosecuted on various criminal charges before he even takes the oath of office, which is something to ponder. Would anyone care to trade Trump for Mike Pence? Now that the Republicans control both houses of Congress, it seems improbable that even if Trump were charged with high crimes and misdemeanors (the term used for qualifying for impeachment), Congress would even convict him. Unless enough representatives from his own party joined Democrats to vote him out. But that’s mere speculation and of little consolation now. Trump has been, and will continue to be, a divisive figure and an embarrassment to those who voted against him. But perhaps the point that was made by this election was that voters weren’t so much trying to elect one candidate over another, but rather were voting against Trump or Clinton. I, however, cannot find it within myself
to be so gracious as Hillary Clinton was in her concession speech in which she said: I still believe in America, and I always will. And if you do, then we must accept this result and then look to the future. Donald Trump is going to be our president. We owe him an open mind and the chance to lead. I am far more skeptical than she. I don’t believe that we, the majority who voted against Trump, should after all of his fear mongering, hate speech and bigoted misogynist and racist rants give him the benefit of the doubt for one second. Keep an open mind on what exactly? A chance to lead this nation down the road to perdition (which is not a small town in Georgia) or worse, fascism? This guy has pulled off so many scams in his life that to give him a break now is like giving a thief the keys to your home and car. What happened Tuesday night was worse. We gave this scammer the keys to our nation! Resistance from the beginning is the only pathway to salvation and I’m with the university students who immediately started demonstrating after the election was called. Resistance is the only reasonable response. Trump doesn’t understand governance and unifying this divided country behind this bigot is a pipe dream that you can now legally smoke in California. I can’t imagine what President Barack Obama will say when he meets up with this imposter and turn over the reigns of power. But if I were him, I’d order all the flags to fly at half mast to mourn the passing of our republic. There’s already a storm brewing and there are no calm seas ahead.
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Just read the L.A. Times article—textbook “Pay to Play,” if not outright bribery. At least we now know why Joe wouldn’t answer your questions … he was too busy taking campaign contributions. Look, I’m not a Trump fan but this is exactly what he means by the system being rigged. If you don’t have $95 grand you can’t work in the system I’m just so disgusted. It took less than four years for Joe to get corrupted. Craig Shaffer San Pedro
Dear Craig Shaffer, I have often said that we could elect Jesus Christ to represent us at City Hall and within one year he’d be corrupted by the power, influence and money. The temptations are enormous and there are very few among us who would resist. This is not a defense nor an excuse. There are a few who can at least be honest about the arrangement. First, take as much money as is legally allowed, but don’t deny it. Second, talk to everyone about whatever project is proposed. And third, this is the hard part, never be afraid to vote against the money and always vote for what’s in the best interest of the community. This might not always get you re-elected but at least you can sleep at night. This pay-to-play scandal doesn’t look good for Councilman Joe Buscaino on a number of levels as he doesn’t appear to have handled it honestly. Thanks for writing, James Preston Allen, Publisher
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Great editorial Oct 13 RL edition. Keep up the good work and good writing. Gregory Hughey San Pedro
Eulogy for Joni Arnold, proprietor of the Royale Bar & Hotel The Queen of San Pedro the queen of San Pedro died this week. she was the last of the true Pedro saloon-keepers. she wore her hair back in a bun, the prettiest bun a man could ever see, with wisps of her golden hair falling upon her pretty neck, and a face so powerfully beautiful and strong, strong, with glittering blue-grey eyes and a glorious smile, she saved my life many times, she nursed me through my darkest days, she never gave up on me, or on any of the other last-chance residents of our bloody street in vinegar hill. she had an immense and forgiving tolerance for bullshit. she stood tall, all five feet of her, in the face of tremendous adversity. she took delight in small and simple things, a cat, a dog, a found antique chair, a flower pot. to all things she added her own personal touch, a little flower here, a balloon there, little feminine touches that made something ugly into a brave fight for a little [See Letters page 9]
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How Los Angeles County Voted President and Vice President Candidate(s)
Votes
Hillary Clinton (D) 1,601,382 Donald J. Trump (R) 525,308 Gary Johnson (L) 55,104 Jill Stein (G) 45,469 Gloria Estela La Riva (P) 13,060
United States Senator Candidate(s)
Votes
Kamala D. Harris (D) 1,246,356 Loretta L. Sanchez (D) 795,561
US Representative, 33rd District Candidate(s)
Votes
Ted W. Lieu (D) 144,541 Kenneth W. Wright (R) 73,433
US Representative, 44th District Candidate(s)
Nanette Diaz Barragán (D) Isadore Hall, III (D)
Votes
Votes
Alan Lowenthal (D) 67,629 Andy Whallon (R) 29,383
State Senator, 35th District Candidate(s)
Votes
Steven Bradford (D) 91,599 Warren T. Furutani (D 77,022
Percent
61.04% 38.96%
Percent
66.31% 33.69%
Votes
Measure 58—Preservation of multilingual education Yes 1,596,718 75.73% No 511,612 24.27%
Percent
Measure 59—California effort to overturn Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
Percent
54.32% 45.68%
Percent
73.85% 26.15%
66th District Candidate(s)
Al Muratsuchi (D) David Hadley (R)
Votes
69,410 61,489
Percent
53.03% 46.97%
Votes
Percent
70th District Candidate(s)
Patrick O’Donnell (D) 69,834 66.65% Martha E. Flores-Gibson (R) 34,948 33.35%
Supervisor 4th District Candidate(s)
Votes
Janice Hahn (N) 241,961 Steve Napolitano (N) 189,132
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There were two errors among the Random Lengths News political endorsements, which were published on page 3 of the Oct. 27 edition of RLn. Assemblyman Patrick O’Donnell is running for re-election in Assembly District 70 and Rep. Janice Hahn is a candidate for Los Angeles County Supervisor District 4. Random Lengths News regrets the mistakes and strives to continue bringing accurate and independent news to Harbor Area residents.
Nanette Barragan won the 44th Congressional District seat.
69.71% 30.29%
64th District
Mike A. Gipson (D) 59,373 Theresa Sanford (R) 21,019
tender person.
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Member of the State Assembly Candidate(s)
bit of beauty. her compassion and forgiveness and kindness knew no bounds. and all these qualities in a woman that changed her own oil in her pickup truck, who could knock you out with one punch, who was armed and dangerous if need be, a true frontier woman, a woman of bad weather and poor harvests, grim and brave, stoic, yet erupting in deep throaty laughter when the moment was right, a cowgirl and a tough person, a
71.48% 23.45% 2.46% 2.03% .58%
61,828 51.18% 58,983 48.82%
US Representative, 47th District Candidate(s)
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Measure 51--School bond measure for K-12 and community college facilities Votes Percent Yes 1,223,638 57.69% No 897,469 42.31% Measure 52--MediCal hospital fee program Yes 1,544,978 73.64% No 552,951 26.36% Measure 53—State revenue bond Constitutional amendment Yes 915,346 44.89% No 1,123,595 55.11%
Measure 55—Personal income tax increase extension Yes 1,407,565 66.60% No 705,950 33.40%
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Measure 60—Condom requirement for adult film performers Yes 1,076,816 51.42% No 1,017,186 48.58% Measure 61-- State prescription drug pricing standards Yes 1,058,312 50.40% No 1,041,640 49.60% Measure 62—Repeal of the death penalty Yes 1,090,487 51.56% No 1,024,437 48.44% Measure 63—Background check for Ammunition sales Yes 1,511,181 71.19% No 611,656 28.81% Measure 64—Legalization of recreational use of marijuana by adults 21 or older Yes 1,263,634 58.24% No 906,152 41.76% Measure 65—Redirection of money collected on carryout bags to environmental projects Yes 1,018,366 48.71% No 1,072,458 51.29% Measure 66—Procedure and appellate changes to challenges to death sentences Yes 993,302 48.95% No 1,035,850 51.05% Measure 67—Referendum on dingle use plastic bag ban Yes 1,165,729 55.90% No 919,660 44.10%
Measure 54—72-Hour legislation posting before vote Yes 1,303,884 64.33% No 722,971 35.67%
Votes
Yes 1,084,017 53.77% No 931,944 46.23% 4,988 of 4,988 precincts reporting (100.00%) | Majority of votes cast
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County Measures
Measure 56—Cigarette tax increase Yes 1,469,702 67.78% No 698,642 32.22%
Measure 57—Judicial discretion in criminal sentencing of juveniles and nonviolent felons Yes 1,415,597 66.66% No 708,110 33.34%
Measure M: Los Angeles County traffic improvement plan Votes Percent Yes 1,451,784 69.82% No 627,510 30.18%
Yes No
Votes
1,519,795 548,326
Percent
73.49% 26.51%
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the night, however, the would-be partiers found themselves offering condolences at a wake. Nanette Barragán’s narrow upset victory over Hall (51.1 percent to 48.8 percent) was nearly as big a surprise as Trump over Clinton. Hahn had endorsed Hall, but Barragán trailed him by only a few percentage points in the primary, countering his dominance in Compton and Carson with support from South Gate, Lynwood, Harbor City and Wilmington. She was nearly neck-and-neck with Hall in San Pedro. Barragán was the underdog throughout the election fight and campaigned like it. Hall was served with a summons to give a deposition involving a rent-to-own lawsuit by some of the condo’s tenants — a condo he voted to approve while a Compton councilman — at his election night party during the primaries. Barragán’s campaign tipped off the media that Hall was to be served. Her campaign repeatedly hammered Hall on his ties to Big Oil and attacked the California state senator on his vote as a Compton School Board member that gave a decorated high school basketball coach accused of child molestation his job back after initial accusations. For his part, Hall attempted to go high when his opponent went low by focusing only on her background as a Wall Street banker, linking her to the 2008 housing crisis and likening her campaign tactics to that of candidate Trump’s. It didn’t work. Hall seemed to lead much of the night and was one of the bright spots of optimism until the numbers started to tighten. By the next morning, Hall fell 3,000 votes short. Most other races in the state and Los Angeles went as expected. Attorney General Kamala Harris defeated Rep. Loretta Sanchez for California’s senate seat; Rep. Ted Lieu defeated Republican newcomer Kenneth W. Wright; Rep. Alan Lowenthal defeated Republican challenger Andy Whallon; State Assemblyman Mike Gipson defeated Republican challenger Theresa Sanford; and State Assemblyman Patrick O’Donnell defeated Republican challenger
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Martha E. Flores-Gibson. Assemblyman Steve Bradford posted a general election win against former Assemblyman Warren Furutani that was as dominant as his win during the more crowded primaries. During the primaries, Bradford showed deep support in the cities of Compton, Carson and Long Beach, but weaker support in Wilmington and San Pedro. That dynamic played out in the form of increased California Sen. Isadore Hall dancing Mariachi music as the election mailers in the San Pedro area returns came in at Ports O’Call Restaurant. The returns initially looked and appearances at such events good for him. Photo by Phillip Cooke as Janice Hahn’s gun violence sit-in this past start. Muratsuchi lost his seat to Hadley by a few percentage points in 2014, reclaimed his seat by June at Port of Los Angeles High School. The race between former State Assemblyman several percentage points this time around. Muratsuchi worked hard to portray Hadley’s Al Muratsuchi and incumbent Assemblyman David Hadley wasn’t a given from the very politics as closer to Trump’s than the typical South Bay voter, calling him out for not denouncing Trump’s candidacy, a step beyond simply not endorsing the president-elect.
Anxious election night partygoers looked at the television screen as Trump exceeded expectations. Photo by Phillip Cooke. Right, Al Muratsuchi and Kamala Harris won their races for State Assembly and US Senator, respectively.
San Pedro Bay Historical Society invites you to the
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E! T A D W E N January 28, 2017 10:00 am to noon Liberty Hill Plaza 100 West 5th Street San Pedro Guest Speakers • Music Light refreshments • Free parking Memorial.JoeHill100@gmail.com
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represent an industry leading application to pinpoint vessel emissions while ships are at sea and at berth. The three-year data collection and analysis project, called “The Connected Vessel Programme,” builds on the $125 million Maersk Line has invested in its “radical retrofit” program to reduce fuel consumption and increase the capacity of the vessels that regularly call at the San Pedro Bay ports.
Metro Bike Share Comes to POLA
SAN PEDRO — On Oct. 25, the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners gave the Port of Los Angeles, in partnership with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the green light to expand the Metro Bike Share program to the 12-mile Los Angeles waterfront by next summer. The LA Waterfront Bike Share will begin with 11 stations—eight in San Pedro and three in Wilmington, with about 10 shareable bikes per station. Payment kiosks at each station will allow riders to use either their Metro TAP cards or credit cards to pay, with costs varying depending on the option selected. Proposed station stops will include: • Fanfare Fountains & Water Feature/ World Cruise Center • Catalina Sea and Air Terminal • Battleship IOWA • Downtown Harbor • CRAFTED at the Port of Los Angeles • Ports O’ Call Village (future San Pedro Public Market) • DoubleTree Hotel San Pedro • Cabrillo Beach • Wilmington Waterfront Park – West • Wilmington Waterfront Park – East • Banning’s Landing Community Center Metro and the port will equally split the capital costs to create the new Bike Share infrastructure along the LA Waterfront, with the port additionally covering 65 percent of the ongoing operation and maintenance for the new Port Bike Share locations. Charges Filed Against Former LBPD Officer LONG BEACH — Oct. 31, a former Long Beach police officer was arrested by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department in connection with an assault with a deadly weapon investigation. The incident took place about a year ago. On Oct. 28, 2015, the Long Beach Police Department became aware of an off-duty incident that occurred the day prior. It involved 34-year-old Toby Benskin, a 14-year employee who had been assigned to the Investigations Bureau. The incident stemmed from a domestic situation that took place in Long Beach. Official said the Benskin threatened his estranged wife, her boyfriend and his roommate. Upon learning of the potential misconduct, the LBPD launched an internal administrative investigation. Due to the nature of the allegations, the officer was placed on administrative leave. The LBPD also started a criminal investigation. On June 20 Benskin was terminated. The case was presented to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Justice System Integrity Division, who reviewed it and filed criminal charges. The complaint included nine felony counts, which included burglary, assault with a firearm, criminal threats, and false imprisonment charges. The District Attorney’s Office subsequently issued an arrest warrant for Benskin. Benskin was arrested in the City of Orange, was booked, and is being held on $200,000 bail.
Sweeney Todd:
A work of genius, too big for a small stage By Greggory Moore, Contributing Writer Stephen Sondheim is a genius. We all know it, so there’s no point in saying it again. But Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is such a showy, awe-inspiring example of his considerable talents that every time you see or hear it the first thing off the top of your head is, “Stephen Sondheim is a genius.” While a script has the possibility of standing on its own (Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia is as fine a read as any novel), a musical score does not. Life exists in a musical only when singers and musicians breathe life into the abstract marks running up and down the clefs by concretizing them into the air vibrations we call ‘sound.’ With Sweeney Todd, Sondheim makes this task devilishly hard. It’s a work that is as much opera as musical, originally scored for an orchestra
of about two dozen players and requiring of its eight main singers not only strong voices and broad ranges but impeccable rhythmic control. With stunning regularity the vocalists are required weave rich, rococo tapestries of harmony and counterpoint, all the while acting their roles to bring out the darkness, humor, wit, irony and pathos that are all over this story of a talented barber wrongly bereft of wife and daughter returning to London to avenge himself. There is a lot happening in Sweeney Todd, musically, vocally and dramatically. Long Beach Playhouse is taking on this redoubtable challenge with far too little resources at its disposal. It may be possible to stage such a grand musical in such a small theater (the show is not on their main stage but in the smaller space upstairs), because if the music and [See Sweeney Todd, page 14]
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Carol Louise Duffis as Flower Seller and Noah Wagner in the title role in Long Beach Playhouse’s production of Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street runs through Nov. 18. Photo by Michael Hardy.
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Depending on which story you believe, when Wolfgang Puck named his first restaurant Spago, he either didn’t know or didn’t care what the word meant – he just liked the sound. It was oddly memorable and sounded sophisticated and that was all that mattered. If you have gotten this far without stopping to Google that, it’s the Italian word for string. Yes, the sign for that most famous California cuisine restaurant, the one that spawned a thousand imitators, looks mildly silly to Italians. Restaurant names are all over the map, often celebrating the name of the chef or region, perhaps the house specialty, but sometimes just a non sequitur. Baramee, the Thai restaurant on Sixth Street in San Pedro, is different. The name has no direct translation in English, but is a Buddhist concept that combines charisma, spiritual authority and integrity. It’s a mystic aspiration that might seem at odds with the mundane business of serving people food. I didn’t know that when I went inside, but could tell that something interesting was going on. A triangle of shelves on one wall held statues of Buddhist deities who stare impassively toward a plain brick wall, a striking contrast of east and west, divine and ordinary. Beneath the deities were the bar and a comfortable dining area. We had planned to sit in the garden patio area but found this combination of ancient and modern to be a fine alternative. The menu offers classic Thai specialties plus a few modern fusion dishes. We started with classics: chicken larb and tofu triangles. The latter are about as simple as anything you can order, triangles of bean curd flash-fried and rushed to the table along with dipping sauce.
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Buono’s Authentic Pizzeria
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A San Pedro landmark for over 40 years, famous for exceptional a w a r d winning pizza baked in brick ovens. Buono’s also offers classic Italian dishes and sauces based on tried-and-true family recipes and hand-selected ingredients that are prepared fresh. Dine-in, take-out and catering. There are two locations in Long Beach. Hours: Sun.-Thurs. 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Fri. and Sat. 11 a.m.-11 p.m. • Buono’s Pizzeria, 1432 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro • (310) 547-0655 • www. buonospizza.com
Baramee Thai Offers Charisma, Integrity, Maybe Even Spiritual Authority By Richard Foss, Guest Columnist
like things spicy, sour, and heavily herbal, and the combination of lime juice, slightly funky fish sauce, mint, and red and green onion accomplishes that nicely. We had asked for it ‘medium spicy,’ and had a nice bit of lip and tongue tingle when the plate was empty. The version here was light on the roughly ground toasted rice that gives it a distinctive texture. But the flavors were excellent. Our next item was a sweet and spicy shrimp salad – not a Thai dish strictly speaking, since lettuce salads are almost unknown in that country. It’s too hot for salad lettuces to grow well there. I went to an American-style Thai restaurant in Chiangmai where salads were [See Baramee, page 13]
The dramatic red interior of Baramee Thai welcomes diners. There’s patio dining, too. File photos.
Since even good tofu tastes like tofu, the only variables are the execution and the sauce. These arrived crisp outside and soft within, with a sweet and spicy sauce topped with chopped peanuts. It’s a world-class snack, albeit something you should never order to go because
PHILIE B’S ON SIXTH
Owner Phil Buscemi welcomes you to Philie B’s on Sixth, where New York–style pizza, Sicilian rice balls and pizza by-the-slice are the specialties. Fresh hot or cold sandwiches, gourmet pizzas and fresh salads are also served. Try the “white pizza” made with smooth ricotta, mozzarella and sharp Pecorino-Romano cheeses topped with torn fresh basil. Extended hours accommodate San Pedran’s unique work schedules. Catering and fast, local delivery ($15 min.). Philie B’s On Sixth, 347 W. 6th St., San Pedro • (310) 514-2500 www. philiebsonsixth.com
PIROZZI’S ITALIAN DELI
Walk into Pirozzi’s Italian Deli at Weymouth Corners and discover an ample selection of fine imported cheeses and salami, as well as a great assortment of imported prosciutto, pastas, sauces, olive oils and vinegars. Best known for making fine homemade Italian sausages in five distinct flavors, Pirozzi’s also carries freshly prepared and frozen entrées and sauces available for take-out. Pirozzi’s Deli offers a full catering menu, made-to-order deli sandwiches, homemade Italian cookies and desserts.
they’re best straight from the fryer. One of my companions who wasn’t familiar with larb glanced at the dish disinterestedly and said, “Oh, just ground chicken.” Then he tried a bite and discovered otherwise. Larb is from the Issan region near Laos, where they
Hours: Mon.-Fri. 10am-6pm; Sat. 10 am-5 pm; Sun. 10 am-2 pm. Pirozzi’s Italian Deli, 1453 W. 8th St., San Pedro • (310) 548-0000 www.pirozzisdeli.com
San Pedro Brewing Company
A microbrewery and American grill, SPBC features handcrafted award-winning ales and lagers served with creative pastas, bbq, sandwiches, salads and burgers. A full bar with made-fromscratch margaritas and a martini menu all add fun to the warm and friendly atmosphere. Live music. Open from 11:30 a.m., daily. San Pedro Brewing Company, 331 W. 6th St., San Pedro • (310) 831-5663 • www. sanpedrobrewing.com
Happy DineR AND HAPPY DELI
The Happy Diner isn’t your average diner. It’s the idea of fresh creative dishes in tow San Pedro locations, and now a third— the Happy Deli. The selections range from Italianand Mexicaninfluenced entrées to American Continental. Happy Diner chefs are always creating something new—take your pick of grilled salmon over pasta or tilapia and vegetables prepared any way you like. Open for
breakfast, lunch and dinner: Happy Diner #1, (310) 241-0917, 617 S. Centre St., San Pedro • Happy Diner #2, (310) 935-2933, 1931 N. Gaffey St., San Pedro • Open for breakfast and lunch: Happy Deli, (424) 364-0319, 530 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro.
The Whale & Ale
San Pedro’s British gastro pub offers dining in an oak–paneled setting, featuring English fish & chips, roast prime rib, sea bass, rack of lamb, beef Wellington, meat pies, salmon, swordfish & vegetarian dishes. Open for lunch & dinner, 7days/wk; great selection of wines; 14 British tap ales, & full bar. First Thursdays live band & special fixed price menu. Hours: Mon.-Thu. 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Fri. 11:30 a.m.-midnight Sat. & Sun. 1-10 p.m. The Whale & Ale, 327 W. 7th St., San Pedro • (310) 832-0363 www.whaleandale.com
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Boardwalk Grill
Casual waterfront dining at its finest! Famous for slabs of Chicago-style baby back ribs, fish-n-chips, rich clam chowder, cold beer on tap and wine. Full lunch menu also includes salads, sandwiches and burgers. Indoor and outdoor patio dining
available. Proudly pouring Starbucks coffee. Open 7 days a week. Free parking. Boardwalk Grill, 1199 Nagoya Way, LA Harbor - Berth 77, San Pedro • (310) 519-7551
PORTS O’ CALL RESTAURANT
S i n c e 1961 this landmark restaurant h a s extended a hearty welcome to visitors from around the globe. Delight in an awe-inspiring view of the dynamic LA Harbor while enjoying fresh California cuisine and varietals. Relax in the bar or patio for the best happy hour on the waterfront. With each purchase of the awardwinning Sunday Champagne Brunch, receive the first Spirit Cruises harbor cruise of the day free. Open 7 days, lunch and dinner. Free parking. Ports O’Call Waterfront Dining, 1199 Nagoya Way, LA Harbor, Berth 76, San Pedro • (310) 833-3553 www.portsocalldining.com
SPIRIT CRUISES
An instant party— complete with all you need to relax and enjoy while the majesty of the harbor slips by. Dinner cruise features a 3-course meal, full bar, unlimited cocktails and starlight dancing—the ultimate excursion for any occasion. Free parking. Spirit Cruises, 1199 Nagoya Way, LA Harbor - Berth 77, San Pedro • (310) 548-8080, (562) 495-5884, www. spiritmarine.com
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Spicy and delicate flavors combine at Baramee Thai. File photo. [Baramee, from page 12]
tossed with a sauce that used sweet vinegar and delicate herbs. If I knew how to make it, I’d be stealing the idea for home. The only disappointment was the seafood pad Thai, which had plenty of shrimp, mussels, and squid but was bland and had overcooked noodles. Pad Thai usually has bright flavors of cilantro and textures of peanut, cabbage, and bean sprouts, but this was soft and mild. It was the only thing we had that I wouldn’t order again. We paired our meal with Thai iced tea, house-made lemonade, and wine from their unusually good selection. They offer Reisling, sauvignon blanc and pinot grigio, all of which have enough sweetness and acidity to match this food. There is also a good selection of beer, which is more traditional. Dinner for four hungry people ran $132, a tad expensive but worth it for the elegant environment, good service and food quality. Baramee would do well in Thai Town. That’s not something that can be said of most restaurants that serve communities without an expatriate population. They have integrity and charisma, and while I can’t guarantee the other spiritual aspects, they sure know how to cook.
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regarded as exotic and strange. This salad was a mix of lettuces, cucumber, carrots, and cabbage topped by grilled shrimp in a sweet hot sauce. The shrimp had a little smoky grill flavor and the hot sauce over a cool salad was a nice touch, but it wasn’t my favorite item of the evening. Our other mains were a “crying tiger” ribeye steak, fried trout with green apple, cashews, and chili lime, roast duck with spinach, panang soft shell crab curry and a seafood pad Thai. The trout was a standout, the battered and fried fish topped with tart green apple slices, cashews, sautéed vegetables, and an onion-lime chili sauce. It’s not traditional Thai because neither trout or apples are native, but this was a brilliant fusion of Thai and Californian ideas. Crying Tiger is simple: a grilled steak served with a sauce made with fish essence, garlic, tamarind, sugar and spices. It’s a Southeast Asian Worcestershire sauce (a fair comparison because they’re made with almost the same ingredients —look on the side of a bottle if you don’t believe me.) The steak here was a perfect medium rare as requested and delicious, though it was served uncustomarily not sliced making it harder to share. The panang curry had a healthy portion of soft shell crab in a thick red curry with coconut and fresh basil, but was a bit milder than expected. All the flavors were there, but they were likely deliberately muted to accommodate our non-Thai palates. The duck was a conventional Chinese style crisp-roasted duck, made superb by a mound of lightly sautéed spinach. This had been
Gearing up with extra layers of shirts, pants, jackets and gloves and loading up the car with bladed skates to visit the Big Chill at the Queen Mary is an annual tradition for many Harbor Area residents. This year, the Queen Mary is presenting Alice in Winterland, a holiday adventure that re-imagines the classic Lewis Carroll story in striking colors and light fixtures. Attendees will wander through an immersive 14,000-square foot experience that tells the story of Alice in Winterland featuring hand-crafted lanterns made from hundreds of pieces of silky cloth and countless hours of preparation in a beautiful visual celebration of the holiday season. Radio-frequency identification technology, which uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects, will make the experience truly interactive. There’s also a 6,000-square foot outdoor Ice skating rink or you can grab a tube and glide down
Baramee is at 354 W. 6th St. in San Pedro. Open daily from 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. There only is street parking. Patio dining and wheelchair access good. Reservations are accepted. It offers local delivery. Details: (310) 521-9400; barameethai.com.
Monday, NOVEMBER 14, 6-8 p.m.
Chef Mario Martinoli presents “Turkey 101” with wild mushroom stuffing, stuffed tomatoes, garlic-infused green beans, brulé southern buttermilk pie!
For class dates and details visit: www.decoartdeco.com, calendar/ events page
Chefs Studio
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The event includes the demonstration class, recipes, appetizers, tasting dinner prepared during class, dessert & wine. Classes are held on a Monday each month, 6-8 p.m. (doors open at 5:30)
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Sweeney Todd, Demon Barber
acting are great, physical limitations won’t matter much. However, trying to communicate Sondheim’s complex score with three musicians (keyboard, drums, clarinet) is probably illadvised, especially if the instruments are piped to the house, sounding reminiscent of late-1980s synths (only cymbal washes made it clear to me that this isn’t the case). But it is beyond question
that the compositional brilliance of Sweeney Todd is a liability when you don’t have a cast with the vocal chops to pull it off. There is simply nowhere for singers to hide here, even in the ensemble. A partial exception is “My Friends”, which presents one of Sweeney Todd‘s most magnificent motifs. A love song sung by Sweeney (Noah Wagner) to his razors (hey, he’s
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a demon barber), “My Friends” is stately and austere, its drawn-out chords supporting a melody line that is right in Wagner’s wheelhouse. Harriet Whitmyer brings in Mrs. Lovett’s counterpoint competently enough. For a moment, we really experience the forceful success of Sondheim’s work. But as the last one-third of the song presents David Fairchild as Judge Turpin will soon meet his bloody end in Sweeney Todd at a modal shift, with the Long Beach Playhouse. Above, cast members. Photos by Michael Hardy. the ensemble joining in and the three they’ve chosen is a good fit for their particular instrumentalists attempting to evoke the music assembled talents. For this production, at least, swell of the score, we are reminded that the Long Beach Playhouse has not found a good fit. Playhouse has not put together what’s required Sweeney Todd will be playing through Nov. to pull off this masterwork. It’s not for lack of effort. The cast has put in the work; Sondheim’s 19 at the Long Beach Playhouse. Time: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturday, and 2 p.m. demands are just too great. Sundays, through Nov. 19 There isn’t an artist or artist group in the world who can perform every sort of art equally Cost: $14 to $24 Details: (562) 494-1014; lbplayhouse.org well. They all have one thing in common, though: their success in any given endeavor will Venue: Long Beach Playhouse, 5021 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach be largely dependent on whether the material
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Jimetta Rose Conducts Higher Vibrations By Melina Paris, Music Columnist
Nov. 11
Rob on the Piano Enjoy great food, great fun and great music. Time: 7 p.m. Nov. 11 Cost: Free Details: (310) 832-0363; whaleandale.com Venue: The Whale & Ale, 327 W. 7th St., San Pedro
Nov. 12
Ramon Ayala, Paquita La Del Barrio, Los Rieleros Del Norte Norteña music at its best with three of the great regional music artists. Time: 7:30 to 11p.m, Nov. 12 Details: http://tinyurl.com/Ayala-Paca-Rieleros Venue: Long Beach Convention Center, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach The Darts Stop Crying presents the debut of The Darts Time: 9 p.m. Nov. 12 Details: (310) 832-5503 Venue: Harold’s Place, 1908 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro
Jimetta Rose.
“I’m not trained in jazz but I love it,” she said. “My ear and my voice go there but I was raised in church. “Coming into this industry completely led by a gift, not by motivations of success, how do you even navigate this territory? I feel like I’m being pulled by an ability. My voice just keeps taking me places. When you get there you have to be ready.” Rose sings with a band because she hated singing with tracks. When she was young and starting out, that’s what everyone did. But she loved singing with live instruments and she could only do that in church, which she happily did. Eventually, Rose auditioned for a band similar to The Fugees, called Hoodie Smith. The experience showed her that she didn’t want to sing if she didn’t have a band. In 2007, a young Rose bravely started her own band. Still with them, Rose is yet again working on a new album. “I want to spread the sound out more,” she said. “I want more instruments on stage and for the live shows, a little more theatrics and more complex music.” From primarily performing with tracks to having a band, Rose realized the differences between a church musician and a jazz musician. [See Jimetta Rose, page 16]
Rob Garland’s Eclectic Trio This high-energy outfit lives up to its name, playing original music that blends jazz, rock, funk and blues. Time: 8 p.m. Nov. 12 Cost: $20 Details: (310) 833-7538; http://alvasshowroom. com Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro
Nov. 13
Iris Malkin, Robert Thies Second Sundays at Two presents an art song recital with mezzo-soprano Iris Malkin and pianist Robert Thies. Malkin represents a new generation of singers who effortlessly meld superb musical expression with exquisite vocal mastery and musicianship. Thies is renowned for his consummate musicianship and poetic temperament. Time: 2 p.m. Nov. 13 Cost: Free Details: (310) 316-5574 Venue: Rolling Hills United Methodist Church, 26438 Crenshaw Blvd., Rolling Hills Estates
Nov. 14
Heavy Justice Several metal bands will converge at the Black Light Lounge. Time: 8 p.m. Nov. 14 Cost: $5 Details: http://tinyurl.com/BlackLightLounge Venue: Blacklight District Lounge, 2500 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach
Nov. 18
Tim and Myles Thompson Tim is a Nashville-based session player, singer and songwriter. Myles is also a prolific singersongwriter and mandolin player. Time: 8 p.m. Nov. 18 Cost: $20 Details: (310) 833-7538; http://alvasshowroom. com Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro
Nov. 19
The Funk Show The most anticipated show of the year will feature Cameo, The Bar-Kays, The S.O.S Band, Con-Funk-Shun, Mary Jane Girls and One-Way. Time: 7 p.m. Nov. 19 Cost: $150 Details: http://tinyurl.com/jnstlbo Venue: Long Beach Convention Center, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach Rachmaninoff with Joyce Yang The 2005 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Silver Medalist, Joyce Yang will perform Rachmaninoff’s well known Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Time: 6:30 p.m.Nov. 19 Cost: $92 Details: http://longbeachsymphony.org, http:// tinyurl.com/joyceyang Venue: Long Beach Terrace Theater, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach
Nov. 20
Colors of Autumn The Nori Tani Group, a multicultural jazz band, will play popular jazz tunes and some Japanese tunes in their “Colors of Autumn” concert. Time: 4 p.m. Nov. 20 Cost: $25 Details: (310) 833-7538; www.alvasshowroom.com Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro
Nov. 28
DMT, Fracture, Meridian Get your introduction to Black Light Lounges Metal Mondays. Time: 8 p.m.Nov. 28 Cost: $5 Details: http://tinyurl.com/BlackLightLounge Venue: Blacklight District Lounge, 2500 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach
Dec. 3
Wagman’s Gold & Silver Celebration KJazz 88.1 FM presents a concert celebrating the career of host of Nothin’ But the Blues, Gary “The Wagman” Wagner. Headlining this special evening are Walter Trout and Friends, Janiva Magness, Coco Montoya and The Alastair Greene Band. Time: 7 to 10 p.m. Dec. 3 Cost: $25 to $55 Details: www.jazzandblues.org, http://tinyurl. com/Wagman-Gold Venue: Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro
THEATER Nov. 12
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street The infamous tale of Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled barber, follows his bloodsoaked return to 19th century London as he seeks vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him, ravaged his young wife, and keeps his daughter a virtual prisoner in his house. Time: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; through Nov. 19 Cost: $20 Details: www.lbplayhouse.org/show/sweeneytodd-the [See Calendar, page 16]
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Dirk Hamilton Dirk Hamilton returns to Alvas Showroom with a new CD, Touch and Go. Touch and Go is an album of 13 songs recorded and produced by Rob Laufer in Los Angeles. Time: 8 p.m. Nov. 19 Cost: $20 Details: (310) 833-7538; http://alvasshowroom. com Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro
The Joshua Tree Tribute to the loud and important band by a group named after its finest album. Opening acts include: The Contenders (tribute to The Pretenders) and Substance (tribute to New Order). Time: 6 p.m. Nov. 019 Cost: $10 Details: http://tinyurl.com/The-Joshua-TreeU2Tribute Venue: Gaslamp, 6251 E. Pacific Coast Highway, Long Beach
Rose said. “I like to write fiction and poetic prose more so than essay writing because I don’t want to program anyone. I just want to show people options to add to their program.” Jazz permeates through The Light Bearer. It doesn’t just have jazz inflections. Still, Rose hesitates calling herself a jazz singer. Choosing instead to refer to herself as a “jazz fan.”
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Artists, like stars, form constellations in the sky. I was reminded of this fact when I interviewed the standout jazz vocalist, Jimetta Rose. I first encountered Rose when she performed at the Grand Performances Peace Go with You Gil in 2012 and again at Young, Gifted and Nina in 2013, tributes to Gil Scott Heron and Nina Simone. At the time, my focal point was Dexter Story, the producer of the two events that was a part of the Grand Performances series on Los Angeles Civil Rights era during the 1960s. It was because of Story, that I was introduced to this generation’s greats such as jazz vocalist Dwight Trible, horn player Kamasi Washington, Nia Andrews and her husband and collaborator Mark deClive Lowe, Georgia Anne Muldrow and now vocalist Jimetta Rose. Rose recently released her latest album, The Light Bearer, a title that exemplifies her spirit on stage. Rose is known for her neo-soul and rhythm and blues work. Jazz was a rare foray for Rose until recently, but it’s not unexpected considering the company she keeps. The album takes you on a musically expansive journey for your soul. Her tone is unmistakably jazz. Her lyrics, whether in song or spoken word impart love. The music dips you into neo-soul grooves, jazzy harmonies and a deep funkiness. The Light Bearer has been described as a masters class of the hip-hop and soul backed jazz found in the music from the World Stage in Leimert Park. The album was produced by Georgia Anne Muldrow, a genre busting artist who also is the daughter of jazz great and instrument inventor, Eddie Harris, and jazz vocalist Rickie Byars. The album was written, recorded and produced within a two-week period. It follows a coming of age narrative arch reflecting her growth and maturation as an artist. “I’m definitely trying to express everything that’s in me,” Rose said. “Sometimes I think the best way to express ourselves is without words because sometimes we get caught in whether or not we agree, whether we pronounce the word the same, whether we can understand the word because of a language barrier,” Rose said. “We operate in feelings. When we get away from the words we’re able to get a more universal communication.” She believes that distortion starts to occur when people put feelings into words or personalize them. “With singing, painting and even writing, it’s still using words but it’s building the story,”
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Nov. 13
The Boys from Syracuse Musical Theatre West’s Reiner Staged Reading Series presents the Rodgers & Hart’s classic The Boys from Syracuse, the first musical ever adapted from a work by Shakespeare. Time: 7 p.m. Nov. 13 Cost: $27 to $32 Details: (562) 856-1999, ext. 4; www.musical.org Venue: Beverly O’Neill Theater, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach Goodnight Moon and the Runaway Bunny This hour-long staged adaptation features endearing puppets, stunning scenery, evocative music and stories that have delighted generations. Time: 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Nov. 13 Cost: $25 Details: (562) 985-7000; carpenterarts.org Venue: Carpenter Performing Arts Center, 6200 E. Atherton, Long Beach
Nov. 18
My Son Pinocchio Geppetto’s musical tale retells the classic Disney story from Geppetto’s perspective. Time: 7:30 Nov. 18 and 19, and 2 p.m. Nov. 19 Cost: $22 Details: (310) 781-7171; www.southbayconservatory.com Venue: James Armstrong Theatre, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance
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RKDC Kids Show Enjoy an evening of dance by talented youngsters. Time: 2 and 4:30 p.m. Nov. 12 Cost: $12 Details: (310) 781-7171 Venue: James Armstrong Theatre, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance
Nov. 13
Ek Do Teen VIII Enjoy Bollywood dancing at its finest. Time: 12 p.m. Nov. 13 Cost: $35 Details: (562) 402-7761; www.ndmdance.com Venue: James Armstrong Theatre, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance
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Unbranded Documentary about 16 mustangs and four men on dream: to ride border to border from Mexico to Canada, up the spine of the American West. Time: 4 p.m. Nov. 19 Cost: $10 Details: (310) 541-7613; pvplc.org Venue: Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro
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Primal Origins In this series Stearns explores the primordial soup from which we emerged 3.5 billion years ago. An artist’s reception will take place from 4 to 7 p.m. Nov. 12. Time: 1 to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, through Dec. 23 Details: michaelstearnsstudio.com Venue: Michael Stearns Studio 347 Joshua Abarbanel: FINDING NORTH Los Angeles Harbor College Fine Arts Gallery presents Finding North, an exhibition and
installation by Joshua Abarbanel, based on his artists residency aboard a Barquentine Tall Ship that sailed the Arctic Circle. Artist’s reception Nov. 12 from 4 to 7 p.m. Finding North runs through Dec. 16. Details: (310) 233-4411 Venue: LAHC Fine Art Gallery, 1111 Figueroa Pl., Wilmington
Nov. 20
Serendipity See the world as things move, then stop and enjoy the sky, flowers and rock patterns through Serendipity, the works of Norma Cuevas, Joe Devinny, and Mina Tang Kan. Through Nov. 20. Time: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, 12 to 6 p.m. Sundays Details: (310) 265-2592; www.artists-studio-pvac.com Venue: The Artists’ Studio Gallery at the Promenade on the Peninsula, 550 Deep Valley Drive, #159, Rolling Hills Estates
“That’s the decision that a lot of artists have to make. Do I want to make money or do I want to make a difference, an impact? I don’t believe we are given these talents arbitrarily. …I’m going to keep doing this because our babies, and everyone need something to see and believe in.” —Jimetta Rose
Dec. 12
Altered Objects Altered Objects offers a reimagining of everyday objects by three Los Angeles artists: Julie Schustack, Tina Turturici, and Nicolas Shake. Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, through Dec. 12 Details: (310) 243-3334 Venue: University Art Gallery, LaCorte Hall, A-107, California State University Dominguez Hills, 1000 E. Victoria St., Carson
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Tidepool Wonders Explore low tides on the rocky shore with Cabrillo Marine Aquarium. Time: 12 to 1:30 p.m. Nov. 12 Cost: Free Details: (310) 548-7562; www.cabrillomarineaquarium.org Venue: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, 3720 Stephen M. White Drive, San Pedro
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South Coast Cactus & Succulent Society Stephen McCabe’s program, “Dudleya Conservation: Threats and New Species” will highlight his 30 years of growing and studying these little known and endangered plants. Time: 1 p.m. Nov. 13 Cost: Free Details: southcoastcss.org Venue: South Coast Botanic Garden, 26300 Crenshaw Blvd., Palos Verdes Peninsula
Nov. 14
Cooking Demonstration Class with Chef Mario Martinoli Take an up-close cooking class with renowned chef and TV personality Mario Martinoli. This event features “Turkey 101.” Time: 6 p.m. Nov. 14 Cost: $65 Details: (310) 351-0070; www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2707666 Venue: Art Deco Penthouse Display Kitchen, 520 W. 8th St., San Pedro
Nov. 19
Family Adventure Sail Every month, the Los Angeles Maritime Institute offers a chance to sail on a tall ship and look behind the scenes at the Port of Los Angeles. Time: 3 to 5 p.m. Nov. 19 Cost: $60 Details: (310) 833-6055; www.lamitopsail.org Venue: Berth 78 in Ports O’ Call Village
Nov. 23
Chill Long Beach will once again be overtaken by the holiday spirit when the fifth annual Chill returns to the majestic Queen Mary. Time: Nov. 23 to Jan. 8 Cost: $30 to $40 Details: http://queenmary.com/chill Venue: Queen Mary, 1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach
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Jimetta Rose
She recognized she could embody each. Eventually, when she started meeting jazz musicians they called her for vocal gigs. She made a name for herself within Los Angeles’ eclectic jazz scene and with her own band. That continued for a few years. “I remember being very aware of the fact that I was trying to pull these two very different worlds together.” Rose said. She described it as, “trying to fit into the more elite crowd but being common.” “My talent keeps bringing me into these spaces but I was born in South Central and I went to private school,” Rose said. “Ultimately, I know how to relate to people. I think jazz excludes and it’s about not excluding. It’s about pulling these things together.” This discernment and her skill in combining the realism of hip-hop and the polish of jazz on stage are her gifts. Jazz has always stretched outwards absorbing influences from diverse musical styles. But a renaissance is happening. It’s an offspring of the classic straight-ahead sound taking shape now in a form inclusive of hip-hop soul, funk and a mix of global sounds within the realms of jazz. This is being created from the cream of LA artists. Rose has been working with many of the artists creating this sound, such as Dexter Story, Dwight Trible, Miguel Atwood Ferguson, Flying Lotus and Thundercat. The time is ripe for her gifts. “Now, because there’s a new vanguard,” Rose said. Shafiq Husayn, founding member of the band, Sa-Ra Creative Partners, called Rose in 2006 to sing background for them around the same time she started her band. Rose describes Sa-Ra as the Parliament Funkadelic of our time and the innovators of this four-way fusion of soul, jazz, hip-hop and electronic. “I started singing with Sa-Ra and then The Decoders,” Rose said. “As eccentric, funk driven and the funk imagery that they have, like Parliament, their musicality is equivalent to jazz.” Working with them is how she started
working with more straight-up jazz heads. Rose discovered that while jazz musicians know how much work their craft requires they also know just how good they are. Then, she added there are people like herself. But while insisting she hasn’t been groomed for jazz, Rose also knows her worth, too. “I’m here,” she says. She realizes it may seem as though she came out of nowhere while everybody else had already been doing this music together and studying. “It’s like, ‘Where were you? Who are you? What are your credentials? I should know you because we’ve been doing this. How don’t I know you? Then you come and sing, like that? Where have you been?’ “I’m like, ‘At a church at 56th and Broadway?’ I don’t know,” Rose retorts For the past four years Rose has been doing shows at Grand Performances in different calibers. Initially, she was primarily background, she moved on to solos and in the past two years she has hosted. “I really desire and think that I’m just here to be the voice of this time, for America,” Rose said. “America doesn’t have a voice. Me sneaking up here is going to challenge the listener but it’s more like learning something new. You haven’t been being enthralled with anything, nothing has been captivating you.” She wants to experiment with timeless music, to speak about principles that are important to her and to not dumb down her subject matter. “That’s the decision that a lot of artists have to make,” she said. “Do I want to make money or do I want to make a difference, an impact? I don’t believe we are given these talents arbitrarily. So if you have it remember to share it for the right reason. I’m going to keep doing this because our babies, and everyone need something to see and believe in.” Rose is featured on a new record with trumpet player, Josef Leimberg called Astral Progressions. It’s an all fusion jazz record including Kamasi Washington, Bilal and Georgia Muldrow. Details: www.jimettarose.com
Cornel West Speaks on Integrity to Millennials By Melina Paris, Contributing Writer
and Councilwoman Lula-Davis Holmes. Hilton did not display endorsements by any elected officials or candidates running for office. Robles released a negative campaign mailer against Murga in an attempt to counteract any support Murga was getting from residents. It called Murga a fraud for requesting that the Carson ballot identify him as a criminal investigator and businessman. Carson’s city clerk denied the request and Murga was not identified beyond his name on the ballot. The mailer also tried to raise doubts about Murga’s advocacy for mobile home issues. As detailed in a previous edition of Random Lengths, Murga was the president of the homeowners association at Imperial Carson Mobile Estates and a Carson commissioner for mobile home affairs. The mailer claimed Murga attempted to scare seniors into thinking that mobile home security would be jeopardized if he was not elected. The mailer read, “He belongs in jail for elder abuse!” It mentioned Robles’ opposing mayoral candidate, Jim Dear, as well. The mailer challenged Dear’s legitimacy as a public school teacher. Yet, the city clerk accepted Dear’s ballot designation as a teacher. These mailers confirmed Carson’s political divisions of the past few years: Jim Dear and Raul Murga on one side, Albert Robles and Vera Robles-Dewitt on the other side. Good Government Carson attempted to bridge the gap with Hilton, who is seemingly neutral, or at least less aligned with Albert Robles than Cedric Hicks. Good Government Carson mailers also featured dice and playing cards with a slash through them. But by selecting Hilton and Murga as “Carson’s Team,” the committee made a highstakes gamble. Being an incumbent gave Hilton a better chance of winning than the eight candidates who were not. One of those eight candidates was Charlotte Brimmer. She worked for state Sen. Isadore Hall and Assemblyman Mike Gibson. She
Carson General Municipal Election Results Mayor Candidate(s)
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Albert Robles (N) 12,732 Jim Dear (N) 10,326 Member of the City Council Jawane Hilton (N) 8,202 Cedric L. Hicks, Sr (N) 6,676 Ramona Pimentel (N) 4,954 Brandi Williams-Murdock (N) 4,441 Charlotte E. Brimmer (N) 3,356 Tavonia Ekwegh (N) 2,597 Raul Murga (N) 2,572 Kenneth Jones (N) 1,898 Measure KK-Cannabis Tax Yes 13,900 No 7,987 Measure TL-Term Limits Votes Yes 16,902 No 4,983
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23.64% 19.24% 14.28% 12.80% 9.67% 7.49% 7.41% 5.47% Percent
63.51% 36.49% Percent
77.23% 22.77%
also received an endorsement from the same progressive democratic club that endorsed Murga and Dear. Yet, Brimmer did not make the “team.” On election day the best case scenario for Good Government Carson was for voters to vote for Hilton and Murga. Every additional vote that Hilton gets is one less for Hicks, another incumbent. But Good Government Carson got the worse case scenario. The mailer did not benefit Murga and every additional vote for Hilton was one less for Brimmer and Murga. Hilton actually received the most votes for city council on Nov. 8, despite not being as dynamic of a public speaker as Hicks, or having Hicks’ long list of endorsements. Hicks finished second.
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Anyone who has heard of Cornel West the same choices and the necessity of a leader understands that he is a powerful orator. The to have both wisdom and integrity. How Shall Integrity Face Oppression? prominent democratic intellectual and Princeton What Does Honesty Do in the Face of doctoral graduate in philosophy brought his brand of verbal might, Oct. 21, to Long Beach Deception? What Does Decency Do in the Face of City College as part of its Student Equity Speaker Insult? Series. How Does Virtue Meet Brute Force? West’s 2014 book, Black Prophetic Fire was In today’s political and sociological at the core of his lecture. In it, he dialogues with scholar Christa Buschendorf about Frederick climate, people of color and the poor deal with Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King oppression, deception, insult and brute force almost daily. So as these conditions are well Jr., Ella Baker, Malcolm X and Ida B. Wells. West opened by letting the audience in on his understood, the answers West described lie in an intimate understanding of these leaders foundation. “The reason I’m here now, able to do this work is because someone looked after me and cared for me,” West said. “I was already spiritually fortified to get the tools necessary to be a force of love.” West describes the philosophy and meaning of his book’s title: “The Black prophetic tradition is fundamentally committed to the priority of poor and working people, thus pitting it against the neoliberal regime, capitalist Dr. Cornel West addressed Long Beach City cllege students as part of its system, and imperial policies Student Equity Speaker series. of the U.S. government. The Black prophetic actions and of ourselves. “Each student has to decide, what is your tradition has never been confined to the interests and situations of Black people. It is rooted in calling, not your job?” West said. “(We have principles and visions that embrace these interests to) creatively and critically examine the self and confront the situations, but its message is for a new self to emerge. There is no rebirth for the country and world. The Black prophetic with[out] learning how to die and (then) to tradition has been the leaven in the American live well. This is something American culture won’t learn.” democratic loaf.” The contrast between the black prophetic West states when this tradition is strong, all poor and working people benefit. When it’s tradition of lifting others as you climb and weak, those same people are overlooked. On a the fact that the most vulnerable are targets of global level, when the tradition is vital, the plight those in power means that moral consistency is absent and the law is tilted. of the wretched is elevated. “Where do you find courage to tell the West’s motivation is to resurrect black prophetic fire, especially among millennials. To truth?” West asked. “Where do you find courage become a leader you must have integrity and lift and willingness to bear witness to injustice?” One opening lies within the movements others up as you climb. A huge part of that “fire” comes from the oral that have sprung up in recent years. “Silence in the face of evil is the face of tradition of music which is integral to West. He regularly invoked songs and artists, both past and evil,” West said. “But now young people have present in his discussion. From Marvin Gaye, experienced a spiritual awakening in the form John Coltrane, Gil Scott-Heron, Nina Simone, of Black Lives Matter, whistleblowers and the Donny Hathaway, Curtis Mayfield and Wu Tang occupy movement.” “We used to see it in our music but that’s a Clan as sonic inspiration. He focused on four questions raised by W.E.B. whole separate lecture. Aretha Franklin can walk Du Bois which he said are about education and on stage and her voice immediately touches the distinction between education and schooling. your soul. These musicians set us up to be better “The two are not the same in this American people. There is a service through performance, culture of weapons of mass distraction,” West you offer an alternative reality and empower folks. This is what we must not lose.” added From his book, West put forward his Schooling is about enforcing an idea of smartness, the pursuit of money and materialism. own questions concluding thoughts on this Wisdom is gained through an education enforced tradition “What does it profit a people for a symbolic by integrity. figure to gain presidential power if we turn our backs from the suffering of poor and working These questions examine how one reacts when people, and thereby lose our souls?” he asked, faced with dire circumstances. As if grasping that rhetorically. “The Black prophetic tradition torch from Du Bois and handing it to millennials, has tried to redeem the soul of our fragile West explained the better choices these leaders democratic experiment. Is it redeemable?” in his book acted upon when faced with such circumstances. He illustrated how people have
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DBA & LEGAL FILINGS [From page 18] 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: 09/29/16, 10/13/16, 10/27/16, 11/10/16
Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2016234476 The following person is doing business as: Cinderella in the Kitchen, 1536 W. 25th Street #213, San Pedro, Ca 90732. Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Estella D. Rohm, 2503 S. Carolina Street #A, 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: 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/. Estella D. Rohm, owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Sept. 22, 2016. 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. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth
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Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2016269033 The following person is doing business as: (1) Lifetimes, (2) Lifetimes Health Solutions, 1621 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro, Ca 90732. Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Sharon L. McGann, 1441 W. Paseo Del Mar, 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: 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/. Sharon L. McGann, owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Nov. 3, 2016. 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. were to expires 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: 11/10/16, 11/24/16, 12/08/16, 12/22/16
Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2016252710 The following person is doing business as: 911 Rooter & Sewer Specialist, 906 Torrance Blvd #18, Redondo Beach, CA 90277. Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Giuseppe Sanzone,906 Torrance Blvd #18, Redondo Beach, CA 90277. This Business is conducted by an individual. 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/. Giuseppe Sanzone, owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Oct. 17, 2016. Notice--In Accordance with subdivision (a) of section
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SpongeBob SquarePants composer, trumpet player and band leader Barry Anthony, also known as Barry Trop, died Oct. 27, of a massive heart attack at the age of 64. Anthony was born in New York City in 1952. His father, an airline executive, instilled in him his love for music and aviation. He was 19 when he started his professional career at Disneyland in a large show group led by Paul Revere and the Raiders’ bassist, Phil Volk. He travelled across the United States and Europe, and he worked in Monte Carlo under the direction of arguably France’s finest trumpet player, Aimee Barrelli. When he came back to the United States he worked for three years at the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas. Anthony played all around Los Angeles, particularly the Sky Room at the Breakers Hotel in Long Beach and at the Jazz Forum in Santa Monica, where he hosted big name guest jazz artists monthly. Sky Room owner Bernie Rosenson remembers when Anthony auditioned for him when the restaurant was re-opening in 1997. A group of older people served as an audience for the audition. Turns out it was the wrong crowd. That audience faulted Anthony’s group as being too loud and singing for too long. But Barry’s repertoire — the best of swing from the 1930s to the 1950s —was the best fit for the Sky Room’s hip guests. For more than 20 years Barry and The Swing of Things were a staple at the swank penthouse nightclub.
“He was a great trumpet player,” Rosenson said. “He was the leader of the orchestra…. He was the nicest man, gentle, kind [and] he had a good sense of humor. He was an incredible man. We really are going to miss him. “ Anthony and his New Orleans Jazz band were frequent First and Third Thursdays performers at The Whale & Ale in San Pedro. “I’m thankful to Barry for many evenings of great musical entertainment and for his friendship,” said Andrew Silber, owner of The Whale & Ale. Anthony composed for many animated TV shows and movies, including Dennis the Menace, Ghostbusters, Alf, Karate Kidd, Maya the Bee and The Hitch Hiker. He won three American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers awards for his work on SpongeBob SquarePants. He dedicated his life to music, and at the end he was writing the score for a new Disney film. As a trumpet player, Anthony was exemplary in his Chet Baker styles. He was demanding as a bandleader, calling his band the “boot camp of jazz.” Anthony also ran a flight simulator school, helping boost morale and giving direction to many young people in his community. He was extremely creative and always had a new project on the horizon. He is survived by his brother Steve Trop from Germany, sister Paula Trop Benson from Northern California and his long time life partner Gail Doner. A celebration of Anthony’s life is pending the arrival of his family.
November 10 - 23, 2016
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(June 22, 1952 – Oct. 27, 2016)
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Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 20160011795 The following person is doing business as: Maximum Construction Services, 2184 Oak Springs Valley Rd. Wrightwood CA 92397. Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Maximum Construction Services, 2184 Oak Springs Valley Rd. Wrightwood CA 92397. 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/. Loren Jacobson, President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on Oct. 17, 2016. 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. were to expires 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). 11/10/16, Original filing:
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