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Trump Tax Cut Lies:
A Bigger Threat than Obamacare Repeal By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor
Torrance resident, Terry Peterson, is known as the “Unigeezer” but he doesn’t look a day older than 45. Flattered by the compliments, he never says 60 is the new 40 however.
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[See Fountain of Youth, p. 10]
In fact, only the business tax cuts are permanent according to the latest Senate tax cut bill. The personal income tax ends in 2025. That bill will raise taxes on everyone earning less than $30,000 in 2025, and everyone earning less than $75,000 in 2027, a nonpartisan committee of Congress established in 1926. The GOP plan also lowers the tax rate of “pass-through” businesses— “small business,” according to Trump—to 25 percent. But pass-throughs also include partnerships, hedge funds and Limited Liability Companys, of which Trump owns more than 500. Clearly, it’s going to benefit him a lot— tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars. We can’t say for sure, because he insists on hiding his tax returns, unlike any other president since Richard Nixon. And by getting rid of the estate tax, Trump’s heirs will inherit an extra billion dollars or more. But it’s not just Trump. “Virtually everything Republicans say about taxes today is a lie,” Bruce Bartlett wrote in USA Today, one year to the day after Trump made his tax cut promise. Bartlett should know. As an aide to Jack Kemp, he notes, “I helped originate the Republican obsession with former New York representative slashing taxes that came to be called supply-side economics. He still think it was useful at the time, but “has long outlived its usefulness and is now nothing but dogma completely divorced from reality.” Bartlett went on to tick through a number of lies, but the next day, in the Washington Post, he took dead aim at the central one: The belief that tax cuts equal growth. Trump has even called them “rocket fuel.” “That’s wishful thinking,” Bartlett wrote. “In reality, there’s no evidence that a tax cut now would spur growth.” The wilder enthusiasts claim that tax cuts even pay for themselves, but even much more modest claims are overblown, Bartlett noted. “The Reagan tax cut did have a positive effect on the economy,” he noted, “but the prosperity of the ’80s is overrated in the Republican mind. In fact, aggregate real gross domestic product growth was higher in the ’70s — 37.2 percent versus 35.9 percent.” Later, he pointed out, “the 1990s was the most prosperous decade in recent memory,” despite Bill Clinton’s tax increase,
Unicyclist Terry Peterson. Photo courtesy of James Kao Photography.
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n mid-November, the Washington Post announced that President Donald Trump had made 1,628 “false or misleading claims,” known to ordinary folks as “lies.” Last year, Daniel Dale of the Toronto Star, counted 494 Trump lies during the presidential campaign. So, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the following promise Trump made on Sept. 27, 2016, has turned out to be utterly false, even though, as a promise about the future, no one could call it a lie at the time: “Tax reform will protect lower-income and middle-income households, not the wealthy and well-connected. They can call me all they want, it’s not going to help. I’m doing the right thing and it’s not good for me. Believe me.”
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If you ask him how he does it, you’ll quickly learn that it’s because he found the fountain of youth... sort of. “Unicycling is my fountain of youth,” he said. “It pretty much saved my life.” He recalled passing a bike shop on his way to the beach as a child and wondered aloud about what looked like a bicycle-half hanging upside down on a wall. He went inside and inquired about the half-bike and if he could try it. The bike merchant took it down for him. His parents ultimately bought the unicycle for him. “Unicycles were little more than novelty back then,” Peterson said. “I had no inkling, no clue that it would become an actual sport decades later.” After a couple of years, he had learned all he could about unicycles. He broke spokes and bent rims going down hills and jumping off of curbs. He said his parents got tired of buying him new unicycles all the time, so they bought him a Schwinn Stingray bicycle instead. Forty years would passed before he picked up a unicycle again.
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Harbor Area Gerald Desmond Bridge Closures
The Gerald Desmond Bridge will be closed from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. through Dec. 1. The impacted areas will be southbound and northbound on Pico Avenue at Ocean Boulevard. The detour will be southbound and northbound through Harbor Scenic Drive. The bridge will also be closed westbound on the Ocean Boulevard off-ramp to Pico Avenue, weeknights from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. from Nov. 27 through Dec. 1. The detour will be northbound on Shoreline Drive to westbound on Anaheim Street to southbound on State Route 47.
POLB Harbor Commission Meeting
The agenda for the Port of Long Beach Harbor Commission meeting of Nov. 2 will include a $2.3 million contract for the Gerald Desmond Bridge replacement and a $15.4 million contract for the construction of Pier E Terminal Yard. Time: 6 p.m. Nov. 27 Details:http://tinyurl.com LBHarborCommission1127 Venue: Harbor Department Interim Administrative Offices, 4801 Airport Plaza Drive, Long Beach
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The Los Angeles Department of City Planning encourages public participation in its comprehensive update of significant portions of the city’s General Plan. This collaborative effort, called OurLA2040, will revisit the city’s existing goals, objectives, policies and programs across a wide range of topics in order to address the changing needs of our diverse population. The San Pedro Waterfront Arts District, the Northwest, Central and Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Councils invite the community to participate in creating a shared vision for the future of the city. Time: 6:45 to 9 p.m. Nov. 29 Details: http://tinyurl.com/ShareYourIdeasRSVP Venue: Peck Park Auditorium, 560 N. Western Ave., San Pedro
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LimeBikes Pop Up in the Harbor Area By Zamná Ávila, Assistant Editor
Many people in San Pedro may are beginning to notice an uptick in bike share programs, a suddenly popular tactic that many communities are employing to combat traffic and pollution. Or maybe not so suddenly — turns out, bike sharing has been here since the summer. Whether they have been well promoted is another matter. Not much information has come out from either the companies that have launched bike share programs or District 15 Councilman Joe Buscaino’s office. A call to the councilman’s director of communications, Branimir Kvartuc, for this report did not elicit a response — as usual. The companies say they are looking to better promote their efforts to help curtail traffic and pollution, as well as promote a greater sense of community. “The more people ride bicycles, the better because it helps improve traffic and keeps our city moving,” said Dave Sotero, a spokesman for the Metro Bike Share program. Metro announced its program this past summer during the Harbor Area CicLavia. Metro launched its program in the Port of Los Angeles area July 31, with 120 bikes throughout the waterfront. Jack Song, a spokesman for another rideshare program called LimeBike, agrees. “Overall, population is increasing,” Song said. “What we see now is traffic.” If you’ve recently driven through the Harbor Area, specifically San Pedro, you may have noticed green bicycles parked on a given corner or ridden by locals. These are the LimeBikes that have popped up in the community. LimeBikes are not associated with Metro Bikes. They are an independent company. The official launch of the LimeBike was in 2016. Locally, the LimeBikes debuted in Watts earlier this year. Anyone with a smartphone can access the service by going to www.limebike.com and downloading the app and finding the nearest bicycle on the map (the bikes are equipped with GPS technology). Simply unlock it and go. Park wherever a bike is allowed. The bikes are dockless. Close the back lock to finalize the trip.
San Pedro High School students utilizing the LimeBikes. Photo by Raphael Richardson
Some find it challenging to properly park the bike, yet their app has detailed instructions on how to properly park, Song said. The cost is as little as $1 for a 30-minute ride. It’s even lower — 50 percent lower— for
students with an .edu email address. While some information about the LimeBikes has appeared in Buscaino’s weekly newsletter and representatives from LimeBike have shown [See LimeBikes, p. 10]
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Nov. 30 is the deadline for registering your boat in the Los Angeles Harbor Holiday Afloat parade, which will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. Dec. 2. The vessel entry fee for the parade is $35, which includes one admission to the parade awards brunch on Sunday, Dec. 3, at the Cabrillo Beach Yacht Club in San Pedro. Awards brunch tickets are $25 at the skippers’ meetings or $30 at the door. Trophies will be awarded in the following categories: Theme, Traditional, Holiday Spirit, Most Original, Children’s Choice, Judge’s Choice, and the Grand Marshal’s Award. Details: (323) 487-2101; laharborholidayafloat. org
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Channel Street Skatepark Clean Up Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council Fills Vacancies By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor
On Nov. 14, the Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council filled the five seats that have remained vacant since the resignation of former council president Mona Sutton and her allies this past September. The elected included some of the old guard that was booted from office following the organizing efforts of Saving San Pedro, an antihomeless group, in 2016. The new members include: POLA High School teacher Rachel Bruhnke; Louis Caravella, web developer; Jane Castillo, educator and neighborhood block captain; Brian Dolansky with a degree in environmental science; and Khixaan Obioma-Sakhu, educator and former secretary on the council; and former council president and Random Lengths News publisher James Preston Allen. Together with the current board members: Frank Anderson, Donald Galaz and Danielle Sandoval, Allen and council president Christian Guzman, the former core group of the 2014-16 council has emerged. In a released statement by the new council, the council’s vice president-elect Allen said, “This is a new day and a fresh start for the neighborhood council that was at the epicenter of the homeless debate.” This victory comes six months after the council was forced into exhaustive efforts and the former council president Mona Sutton and her allies began boycotting council stakeholder meetings. Editors Note: Brian Dolansky resigned on Nov. 20 due to personal reasons.
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San Pedro skaters cleaned up the Channel Street Skatepark on Nov. 12. Andy Harris, president of the San Pedro Skatepark Association and one of the original creators of the park, organized th cleanup. The Channel Street Skatepark was started in 2002 as a small homemade park in response for the lack of skateparks in San Pedro. It has grown since, with local skaters responsible for it's maintenance. The park was closed for a freeway widening project in 2014, and has been closed since. Along with no reopening date, Councilman Joe Buscaino, who helped the park in its efforts, said it’s “the most significant progress to date.” Photos by Raphael Richardson.
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[Announcements from p. 3] events with community professionals. • Marketing and Special Projects Internship, Arts Council for Long Beach. Deadline: Dec. 1 • Development Internship, Long Beach Opera. Deadline: Dec. 3 • Interpretive Education Internship, Museum of Latin American Art. Deadline: Dec. 3 • Curatorial Internship, Rancho Los Cerritos. Deadline: Dec. 3 • Living Arts Internship, United Cambodian Community. Deadline: Dec. 3 • Graphic Design Internship, University Art Museum. Deadline: Dec. 3 • Education & Community Engagement Internship, Long Beach Symphony, email iroberts@ longbeachsymphony.org, Deadline: Dec. 3 Details: Cynthia.Lujan@artslb.org
Monthly Beach Clean-up
Cabrillo Marine Aquarium invites the public to participate in our monthly Beach Clean-Up. Volunteers learn about coastal habitat the growing amount of marine debris within it and the benefits of protecting this ecosystem. Time: 8 to 10 a.m. Dec. 2 Details: (310) 548-7562, www.cabrillomarineaquarium.org Venue: CMA, 3720 Stephen M. White Drive, San Pedro
Draft Amendment to POLA Master Plan
A public notice on the draft amendment to the Port of Los Angeles Certified Port Master Plan will take place at 8:30 Dec. 14 at the Los Angeles Harbor Department Administration Building. The 2017 amendment includes a map change to Planning Area 1, adding maritime support to the visitor-serving commercial area at Berth 73A, the institutional area adjacent to the municipal fish market and the proposed Jankovich barge area at Berth 51. The map change is consistent with the change to the San Pedro Waterfront Project environmental impact report for the Jankovich Co. Relocation Project from June 2017. Written comments may be submitted to the Port of Los Angeles Planning and Strategy Division, 425 S. Palos Verdes St., San Pedro, CA 90731, or emailed to djordan@portla.org by 5 p.m. Dec. 14. Time: 8:30 a.m. Dec. 14 Details: www.portoflosangeles.org Venue: LA Harbor Department, 425 S. Palos Verdes St., San Pedro
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cut spending. It is Republican dogma that all deficits result from excessive spending, never from tax cuts.” The problem with Kansas, for Republicans, is that they didn’t have Democrats to blame. On the national stage, they have perfected their game: Reagan and Bush ran up massive deficits, then Clinton was elected, and he brought them down, doing a lot of the GOP’s dirty work for them along the way—such as turning welfare into a block grant. This made it far too inadequate when the economy turned sour again under Bush, whose tax cuts once again ran up massive deficits, which Obama, like
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which every single Republican voted against. “At 37.3 percent, aggregate real GDP growth in the 1990s exceeded that in the 1980s,” he wrote. Tax reform—cutting rates and closing loopholes to improve efficiency and fairness without altering revenues— is a different matter. Bartlett is all in favor of that. But he warns that even the Tax Reform Act of 1986 did nothing for growth. “[T]here is no evidence showing a boost in growth from the 1986 act,” Bartlett wrote. “The economy remained on the same track, with huge stock market crashes — 1987’s “Black Monday,” 1989’s Friday the 13th “mini-crash” and a recession beginning in 1990. Real wages fell.” Still, done right, tax reform would be a good thing, he argues. But Republicans have no intention to do that, as he explained to Kai Ryssdal on public radio’s Marketplace on Nov.1: “The 1986 tax reform was a very good piece of legislation. And the reason it worked is three key principles were followed: They got rid of tax loopholes to pay for a reduction in tax rates. Secondly, it was distributionally neutral. It gave roughly the same percentage tax cut to everybody regardless of their tax bracket. And the third thing is it was genuinely bipartisan. And the Republicans today rejected all three principles.” The reason for that rejection is that Republicans have become far more rigidly ideological. As Bartlett notes, after cutting taxes in 1981, Reagan “then supported 11 tax increases to offset a ballooning deficit.” With a record like that, Reagan couldn’t get elected dogcatcher in today’s GOP. In his USA Today editorial, Bartlett explained how the shift in thinking took hold. The passage of Proposition 13 here in California convinced Republicans that tax cutting was politically more popular than cutting the deficit. “But to maintain some semblance of consistency, Republican intellectuals such as Irving Kristol and Alan Greenspan developed a theory called ‘starve-the-beast,’ which says that spending will only be cut when tax cuts increase the deficit so much that there is no alternative,” he explained. The result has been both hypocrisy and delusion: “Thus, Republicans have long argued out of both sides of their mouths. On the one hand, they assert, without any evidence, that tax cuts pay for themselves by greatly expanding the economy, and that tax cuts will starve the beast and reduce spending. Thus, in Kansas, the state hired Arthur Laffer, one of the original supply-siders, to say that tax cuts would pay for themselves. When taxes were slashed and revenues collapsed, the Republican governor and legislature sharply
people uninsured. But, as always, it’s what comes afterwards that hurts the most. As the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities explained, “Congressional Republicans this fall are poised to launch step one of a likely two-step tax and budget agenda: enacting costly tax cuts now that are heavily skewed toward wealthy households and profitable corporations, then paying for them later through program cuts mostly affecting lowand middle-income families.” It was, pure and simple, a move calculated to confuse and deceive, to make it impossible for members of the public as a whole to coherently make their views known. “Congressional leaders could have chosen to write a single bill with both the tax cuts they
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LB Council Votes on Language Access, Recreational Marijuana
LONG BEACH — On Nov. 14, the Long Beach City Council unanimously voted to approve updates to the city’s language access policy. The updates would allow for multilingual signage, timely translation services and hearing accommodations to the civic center and new city facilities. It would also reduce the amount of time for events to reserve an interpreter from 72 hours to 24 hours. The city council also voted, 5-3, for the city to move forward on a adult use of recreational marijuana policy. It will begin next year. District 3 Councilwoman Suzie Price, District 4 Councilman Daryl Supernaw and District 5 Councilwoman Stacy Mungo opposed the motion. Councilman Al Austin was absent. The council also passed a temporary ban on recreational marijuana for 180 days. The council decided that no more shops will be approved at this time. Most businesses still are working through the permitting process and will not operate until next year. The city attorney will draft an ordinance to allow, license and regulate the retail sale, cultivation, manufacture, distribution and laboratory testing of adult-use marijuana in Long Beach. Details: http://tinyurl.com/LBMarijuana1; http:// tinyurl.com/LBMarijuanaInfo2
POLB Gets Grant to Retrofit Diesel-Burning Engines
November 23 - December 6, 2017
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LONG BEACH — On Nov. 16, he Port of Long Beach announced that it was awarded $2.4 million to retrofit three gantry cranes to all-electric operations. The award, part of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Diesel Emission Reduction Act, will also will be used to retrofit four tugboats operated by Foss and Curtin with newer and cleaner engines. POLB will help Stevedoring Services of America, Foss Maritime and Curtin Maritime replace equipment with zero-emission or cleanestavailable equipment. The award is expected to help reduce carbon dioxide by more than 15,606 tons, nitrogen oxide by 1,649 tons, carbon monoxide by 267 tons, diesel particulate matter by 61 tons and hydrocarbons by 40 tons within 20 years.
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LASD Rescues Exploited Child
COMPTON — On Nov. 15, the Los Angeles Regional Human Trafficking Taskforce, along with deputies from Compton Sheriff’s Station of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, conducted a human trafficking operation in Compton. Detectives arrested 37 adults and rescued one 13-year-old girl they identified as a commercially sexually exploited child. The child was released to the care of the Department of Children and Family Services. Two females arrested were identified as adult sex workers who solicited undercover deputies for various sex acts. Sixteen additional females were arrested for the charge of loitering for the purposes of prostitution. Each woman was offered victimcentered services from the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking and Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion Services. Seventeen of those arrested were men who solicited undercover sheriff’s deputies for various sex acts. Alex Smith, an 18-year-old from Los Angeles, Roderick Bell, a 22-yearold from Carson, Marcus Beroit, a 19-year-old from Hawthorne and Tahji Tarpley, a 33-yearold from Long Beach, were each arrested on felony charges of pandering.
California’s Crude Attempt at Climate Leadership Challenged in Bonn By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor
“Let’s put you in the ground!” California Gov. Jerry Brown lashed out at scores of climate justice activists protesting his scientifically inadequate, corporate-friendly policy approach at the 23rd annual Conference of the Parties climate summit in Bonn, Germany on Nov. 11. “That was a joke,” Brown told Amy Goodman, host of the independent global news program, Democracy Now! If so, it was in very poor taste — essentially, responding to environmentalists’ campaign to halt the mining of fossil fuels by twisting their “Keep it in the ground!” slogan into a threat with haunting genocidal undertones. Daniel Ilario, one of two activists with Idle No More SF Bay—a group of Native Americans and allies—who spoke to Random Lengths News as representatives of the It Takes Roots delegation, assessed the significance of Brown’s retort. “His violent response, and failure to apologize, saying his comment was a joke … illustrate the thought process of many elected officials around the world,” Ilario said. For them, “The extractive industry that leaves sacrifice zones across the globe is a given; the status quo cannot be changed. If thousands or millions have to die to keep the capitalist machine running, so be it. “People dying of cancer near refineries and extraction sites is not a joke; indigenous people losing their land and sovereignty is not a joke.” RL Miller, chairman of the California Democratic Party Environmental Caucus, said Brown has crafted a reputation that doesn’t match reality. “Brown has done a terrific job getting world leaders to believe in his ‘Jerry Brown, Climate Hero’ mythos,” Miller said. “However, Californians who know him aren’t so easily fooled — hence the protestors in Bonn. He’s been acting as Chevron’s stenographer for most of his time in office, whether it’s firing oil regulators to appease oil industry demands or writing a capand-trade bill off an oil industry wish list.” The cap-and-trade extension, passed this past July, was opposed by scores of environmental groups, including the Center for Biological Diversity, which two days earlier released a report, “Oil Stain: How Dirty Crude Undercuts California’s Climate Progress,” which directly clashed with Brown’s image. Yet, when pressed by Goodman, Brown insisted, “We have the toughest rules on oil.” Illario, however, called it “a give away to the oil and gas industry,” and went to explain: “Beyond the free carbon credits (up to 80 percent for oil refineries), the bill preemptively bans local air quality boards from capping carbon emissions until 2030. Furthermore, the cap and trade extension allows refineries to expand. The Phillips 66 refinery in Rodeo, California seeks to increase their bay terminal capacity to import 100 thousand more barrels of crude (much of it tar sands from Canada and crude from the Amazon) per day by ship. These are the “Toughest rules on oil” Jerry Brown speaks of.” The CBD’s associate conservation director, Jean Su, who was also in Bonn, took an even broader exception to Brown’s claim. “Tax breaks,
Gov. Jerry Brown in Bonn, Germany during climate change conference. File photo
weak regulation, and negligent oversight make California a playground for oil companies,” Su told Random Lengths News. “For example, California is one of the only oil-producing states that does not levy a tax on oil extraction. California is also one of only a handful of states that allow oil companies to dump wastewater from oil and gas production into dangerous, open, unlined pits.” In addition to those problems with California’s laws and regulations, Su singled out Brown’s own actions as well. “Brown, himself, has pressured regulators to speed up permitting for oil companies, firing officials who did not comply. He has refused to ban fracking despite its use of toxic chemicals and the fact that it is fundamentally incompatible with fighting climate change,” she said. “And he has failed to shut down the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility, where the largest methane leak in U.S. history forced thousands to flee their homes.” There are so many issues involved that it can be hard to keep track—which appears to be part of the image-focused strategy Brown has adopted. But when it comes to the specific issue that sparked his ire, the “Oil Stain” report is especially significant, showing just how damaging California’s current—and future—oil production really is. Three-quarters of it is as climate-damaging as Canadian tar sands crude, including eight of California’s 10 largestproducing oil fields. The worst offenders were the Midway-Sunset oil field in Kern County and the San Ardo oil field in Monterey County, followed by four others in Kern and Fresno counties. More locally, the Wilmington and Huntington Beach oil fields also made the list. “In the Los Angeles area, the Wilmington and Huntington Beach oil fields are a major concern because the oil industry extracts millions of barrels of particularly climate-damaging crude from these urban oil fields each year,” the report’s lead co-authors Shaye Wolf told Random Lengths News. “Oil drilling in these fields is dangerous for the climate and the health of surrounding communities.”
Wolf explained that center’s research built on the work of experts at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, who “developed the OilClimate Index that estimates lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions (from production, refining, and end-use) for crudes from around the world.” Though far from exhaustive, “They provide Lifecycle [green house gases] for 75 crudes, covering 25 percent of global production,” she said. With incomplete records, statewide and national averages can’t be compared, “But California crudes stand out at the top as some of the world’s most climate-damaging in the sample of 75,” she said. “California crudes are the only U.S. crudes that made the top 10.” Specifically, Wolf said, “The lifecycle GHG emissions of crude from California’s largest oil field, Midway-Sunset, ranked third out of 75 global crudes (at 725 kg carbon dioxide equivalent per barrel), making it one of the world’s highest greenhouse gas emitters, followed by South Belridge in Kern County in sixth place (at 690) and Wilmington in Los Angeles in tenth place (at 625).” After that, “Louisiana’s Lake Washington Field was the next closest, tied for 17th place.” Six Texas crudes ranged from 574 to 458, Alaska North Slope crude was 564 and North Dakota’s notorious Bakken crude came from two fields, registering 532 and 471. “A major reason why California’s heavy oil is so climate-damaging is that pumping it from the ground requires energy-intensive extremeextraction techniques such as cyclic steaming, steam flooding, waterflooding, and fracking,” the report explained. “Refining California’s heavy oils also produces large amounts of petcoke, a toxic byproduct that is worse for the climate than coal when burned.” The impacts of these extraction methods were a key part of what Brown was trying to cover up. What’s more, the drilling of new wells shows no sign of letting up. “California oil regulators issued 3,303 drilling permits for oil and gas wells in 2015 alone,” the report notes. “In 2015, Kern County — the state’s largest oil-producing county [See Cali Crude, p. 7]
humanity. The rights of Mother Earth and rights of nature are being thrown down the gutter, and that is unacceptable. We have every right to call out Jerry Brown with his false solutions and supposedly being a ‘climate leader.’” “The crisis today requires bold change, not corporate funded policy and legislation. The
extractive industry must be left out of the decision making process,” Ilario said. “We must allow indigenous peoples to lead the way. They have lived tens of thousands of years in harmony with nature. We must immediately begin a just transition to a regenerative economy that respects the laws of Mother Nature so our relatives yet to be born have a chance to live.” But the prospects of that are low, without much greater pressure from below, Miller warned. Regarding Brown, she said, “I’m honestly afraid that his last act as governor will be to wreak havoc on California’s progress by marrying our grid to that of Wyoming, ceding California authority to Wyoming’s, and trusting in Wyoming politicians to ease off coal.” Beyond that, she said, “The prospects for a better governor in 2019, after Brown leaves office, seem dim.” So if activists are going to change those prospects, the time to do it is now.
would affect children. Other vulnerable groups who would be hard hit, according to CBPP policy briefs are workers, women, Latinos, African Americans, the homeless, disabled and the elderly. Broad spending areas targeted for reduction also include infrastructure investments—yet another example of a key Trump campaign promise that’s turning out to be a lie.
None of this has to happen, of course. But the GOP mega donors are literally demanding it as the price for their support in the 2018 midterms. It will take a massive increase in the level of public resistance in order to halt it, as we saw with blocking Obamacare repeal. The threat is more diffuse this time, but if anything it’s deeper and more serious than ever.
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Thousands protested in Bonn, Germany, on Nov. 4 before the COP 23 started. File photo
even more until 2030,” Zizi said. “This is directly impacting myself, my family, low income communities, people of color, contaminating and commodifying our waters, air, and soil. Big oil rules alongside our governor.” Turning to the big picture, she said, “I believe this is a human rights violation to all of [Threat, from p. 5]
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San Pedro Man Indicted for Making Threats Against Congresswoman By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor
According to court documents, investigators tracked Lloyd down by tracing the cell phone number to the San Pedro home where he lives with his grandmother. He was interviewed Oct. 27 by FBI agents. When the agents played the audio of the call for Lloyd, he admitted that he recalled leaving the message. He said he was upset because Waters made “veiled” comments about doing something to Trump. When the FBI agents came knocking on his door, Lloyd thought they were there regarding a different matter — threats of personal harm by a fellow commenter on YouTube. According to the grand jury affidavit, it appeared to be a beef between internet trolls from opposing ends of the ideological spectrum following the mass shooting in Las Vegas this past October. The tenor of the back-in-forth between Lloyd and the fellow commenter escalated to the point where Lloyd was allegedly on his way out of town to confront the YouTube commenter after said commenter posted a video racking a 12gauge shotgun while taunting Lloyd. Lloyd told authorities that he didn’t own a gun. Lloyd, who was freed on a $20,000 bond after his arrest, is scheduled to be arraigned on Dec. 7. If he is convicted, Lloyd would face a statutory maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison.
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On Nov. 17, a federal grand jury charged a San Pedro man with threatening to murder Rep. Maxine Waters in a phone call to her Capitol Hill office this past month. Anthony Scott Lloyd, 44, was arrested on Nov. 9, one day after federal prosecutors filed a criminal complaint that accused Lloyd of making the threatening phone call to Waters’ office. According to the affidavit in support of the complaint, Lloyd called the Waters’ office on Oct. 22 and left a voicemail laced with expletives and epithets that uses the words “dead” and “kill” a total of four times. Waters, a Democrat, has been an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump. Lloyd, upset with Waters for saying she wanted to “take out” Trump while speaking at the Ali Forney Center dinner, a gala for LGBT youth, in New York. Waters told CNN that the comment was not meant to imply she wanted to physically harm Trump, but that she wanted to take the president out of office. After hearing the comment on a talk radio show, Lloyd called Waters’ office and left a message on the voicemail telling her she will be a “fucking dead ass nigger,” if she continued making comments about Trump. Lloyd told the FBI that he was in his car in San Pedro waiting for a friend to walk her dog on the morning of Oct. 22, listening to talk radio and it was “spur of the moment” that he decided to make the call.
favor and the program cuts or tax increases to pay for them,” CBPP wrote. “This would have enabled the public and policymakers to evaluate the tradeoffs and make an informed decision. Instead, they have chosen to obscure this tradeoff by splitting their agenda into two parts. But this doesn’t change the reality: the wealthy would win large tax cuts while everyone else would pay the tab.” The form those later cuts would take were the subject of a series of policy briefs. They include a wide range of programs, with different cuts contemplated in different plants, often with large uncertainties. But a few key specifics affecting children can help give a sense of the drastic nature of the sweeping cuts that are in store: • Health care. Cuts to Medicaid and subsidies for Affordable Care Act marketplaces are between $1.3 trillion and $1.9 trillion over the next decade, with most cuts coming from Medicaid. (34 million children receive health coverage through Medicaid.) • Food assistance. Cuts to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly food stamps) are at least $140 billion over the decade; reaching about 30 percent in 2027. • Other cuts. These will include income assistance for children with disabilities, college aid (Pell Grants and student loans), K-12 education, housing assistance, child care, Head Start and tax credits for working families. In addition, budget plans would deeply cut non-defense discretionary funding, the budget area that supports a broad set of children’s investments. These are in addition to cuts imposed since 2010. By 2027, under the congressional budget plan, overall NDD funding would be 18 percent below its 2017 level and 29 percent below its 2010 level, after adjusting for inflation. The cuts under the Trump plan are even deeper. That’s just a quick summary of how the budget plan cuts connected to the tax cuts
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— projected the development of approximately 2,697 new wells per year for the next 20 years and beyond.” “California is tarnishing its climate leadership by encouraging oil companies to extract millions of barrels a year of some of the planet’s dirtiest crude,” Wolf said. “Our state’s huge reserve of dirty crude is a loaded gun pointed at our future. We can’t let the oil industry pull the trigger.” So it was no surprise that Su strongly supported the protesters. “From aggressively promoting dangerous drilling to letting oil companies dump toxic waste into our water, Jerry Brown has been rolling out the red carpet for oil companies in California,” she said. Brown pushed back vigorously when interviewed by Goodman. But the rationales he provided did not impress his critics. To start off, Brown told Goodman, “They called for a ban on all oil production.” But that’s not the case, Su said. “We are not asking for an overnight shutdown of all fossil fuel production, nor did we ever suggest so,” Su said. “Instead, we call on Gov. Brown to begin a managed decline of oil production through halting the issuance of permits for all new drilling and fracking, new fossil fuel infrastructure and oil field expansion. California must also establish buffer zones that prohibit neighborhood drilling.” Brown also told Goodman, “I don’t think we should shut down oil in California and then take it from Venezuela or take it from places where the rules are even worse.” Although the data cited in “Oil Stain” and the Carnegie Oil-Climate Index directly contradicts Brown’s argument, Su took a broader approach in her response. “The climate crisis calls for nothing short of aggressively slashing both fossil fuel supply and fossil fuel demand simultaneously,” she said. “We agree that curbing oil demand is essential and we have called for an aggressive ban on all sales of new fossil fuel cars by 2025,” something Brown has yet to address. “But ramping down oil production is equally vital,” she said, pointing to the findings in the “Oil Stain” report. “Contrary to Mr. Brown’s claims, a barrel of oil kept in the ground in California does not mean that a whole barrel of oil will be imported from elsewhere to replace it,” Su continued. “As a recent study by the Council on Foreign Relations found, oil consumption goes down when the oil supply decreases. Plus, the planet just can’t afford any more oil extraction. According to a study by Oil Change International, the world’s developed oil and gas fields—the ones we’re already pumping—contain enough carbon to carry us past the 1.5-degrees Celsius temperature limit agreed to in Paris.” But Brown told Goodman that reducing production wasn’t the answer. “The answer is stop using oil in cars, in trucks. You need a renewable vehicle grid. That’s the answer,” he said. “This quote by Jerry Brown shows exactly what type of person he is and his actions are so inhuman when it comes to oil and fracking,” said Isabella Zizi, a 23-year-old member of the Northern Cheyenne, Arikara, and Muskogee Creek tribes, as well as Idle No More SF Bay. “It’s like he’s blaming us as individuals who drive vehicles and using the oil, but he’s not looking at the oil refineries that he’s in favor for,” she said. “I live in Richmond just 20 blocks away from the Chevron Refinery which is the biggest polluter in California. The new cap and trade bill that was passed summer 2017 will continue to let these refineries emit greenhouse gas emissions
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Two Short Years and Miles Away from America From the White House to the shores of San Pedro By James Preston Allen, Publisher
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It seems like it was just two short years ago that we lived in a country that was moving forward past historic racial divides with the election of the first black president —a man who brought intelligence, grace and compassion to our highest office without a hint of scandal. President Barack Obama wasn’t perfect, but he brought respect to the office, leadership in international affairs and led our nation out of one of the worst economic disasters since the Great Depression. And for all of this he and the Democratic Party were attacked by conservatives and derided for ultimately passing the first step in universal healthcare coverage — a goal that has eluded liberals since Harry Truman was president. We were not, however, living in a postracist America, which as we soon learned from Ferguson Missouri, as well as the streets of Los Angeles and New York City. Obama took great pains not to appear to be the angry black man in the White House. But the end result was that the conversation we didn’t have during the eight years with Obama as president, was exposed by his successor in less than eight months. Trumpism has roused and inspired some of the most racist, bigoted and intolerant voices that I have observed since the conflicts of the Civil Rights era. And no part of our nation has been spared from this uprising of intolerance. We don’t have any Confederate statues here in San Pedro, which is one of the most distant places from the nation’s capital in the continental U. S. But we do have a legacy of the Klu Klux Klan, right here on 10th Street in what was known in the 1920s as Klan Hall. The history and remnants of racism in Southern California are too many to list here, but all one needs to consider is that both during and after the Civil War the “Southern” part of our geographical name was more than a description of place. Los Angeles has struggled with this history ever since and has not completely come to grips or peace with itself. Apparently in this most southern part of the city of Angels, in one of the last enclaves of authenticity and working class suburbia, intolerance still has its place and survives side by side with some of our most
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progressive, artistic and majority-democratic residents. Curiously, the uprising against the growing homeless encampments and the motion to support tiny homes by the Central San Pedro Neighborhood council back in 2015 presaged the Trumpism that swept red America just one year later. Here they called it Saving San Pedro; elsewhere it was coined Make America Great Again, but it amounts to much the same thing — intolerance of the “others.” Since that time, the SSP folks gained control of two neighborhood councils and failed at their attempt to make San Pedro great again or to take it back to some mythical Leave It to Beaver time period before all the tuna canneries and the shipyards closed leaving some 30,000 workers unemployed. The San Pedro Harbor Area still hasn’t fully recovered from the policies of the Reagan trickle down economic model that are just now being refloated by a Republican led Congress as “tax reform.” What is even more curious locally is that just when San Pedro Magazine came out with front page homage to the Saving San Pedro uprising, the social media derived community group was in the throws of dissolving back into whence they came — a Facebook group of grousing discontents spreading incivility and crass accusations. Amidst their implosion, they lost control of the neighborhood councils they had won in 2016. At least one of their number blamed me, the former president of Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council, for their incompetence at governing and politics. From my perspective, they were victims of their own vitriol and inability to unify around anything other than their own intolerance towards others. What has come back to replace them are some of the good people who I know exist here and all across this nation who have a greater sense of commitment to solving the big problems rather than shaming victims. LAPD Chief Charlie Beck once called San Pedro “the biggest small town in all of Los Angeles.” He may be right. San Pedro is a microcosm of the best and worst that can be found anywhere in this city. It’s just that here one can see it up close without the veneer of Hollywood hype or the subterfuge of City Hall. Publisher/Executive Editor James Preston Allen james@randomlengthsnews.com Assoc. Publisher/Production Coordinator Suzanne Matsumiya
only three of those units will be for low income residents. This is hardly a solution for either the crisis of rising housing costs or the cure for homelessness. One can only wonder how long it will take for the current regime in D.C. to implode.
25 Years After Bill Clinton’s Election as President By Lanny Davis
Little Rock, Ark., Nov. 17, 2017: I am here, along with hundreds of others, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the election of William Jefferson Clinton as the 42nd president of the United States in November 1992. There is much that could be written about the great achievements of Clinton’s presidency. But it’s as simple as this: During his two terms, Bill Clinton gave America peace and prosperity, helped create nearly 23 million new jobs, turned an inherited budget deficit of several billion dollars into a budget surplus, and left office with the United States as the respected leader of the post-Soviet Union free world. For me, as a lifelong Democrat, one of Bill Clinton’s most important legacies is his reshaping of the Democratic Party to make it competitive again as a national party that could win the presidency. It’s too easy to forget the mindset of defeatism among Democrats at the beginning of the 1992 presidential campaign. The almost unanimous
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Science educators and scientists appreciated your editorial about the repeated challenges by conservative politicians against science. As a veteran high school science teacher, giving students an appreciation for the historically proven scientific method of analysis is tantamount, a priority if youth are to become scientifically literate as adults and less susceptible to mysticism, “fake facts” and creationism. Without science there would be no understanding of medicine, engineering, chemistry, astronomy, biology... in essence, no advancement for humanity going back to before the earliest agriculture 10,000 years ago. We face the 6th mass extinction
on planet Earth. The first and only one caused by human activities... ocean acidification, global climate change, air, land and water pollution, and the disruption of ecosystems. We have the science to reverse degradation of the environment. What is lacking is political will by the politicians and that’s why it has been and will be important for citizens to participate in activities, like the historic nationwide March for Science last spring, politicizing Earth Day to demand government action against polluting corporations and no rollback of environmental protections of water, land, food, air. Citizens must also not stop calling for an end to the Dakota pipeline or an increase in legislation to confront widespread microplastics in the environment that contaminates
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Late last night, Vice President Pence cast the tiebreaking vote in the Senate making it illegal to file class action lawsuits against banks. After the Wells Fargo and Equifax scandals of recent months, this brazen attempt by Republicans to cover for Wall Street fraud is the latest outrage from an administration that promised to work on behalf of hardworking Americans. We can’t let this go
unanswered. Every day working people have been left behind as our government has cut deals with banks that are too big to fail and bankers who are too big to jail. The corporate cabal at the center of our campaign finance system has grown too powerful, and Trump’s utter duplicity has never been more apparent. While Republicans and their banking cronies work to rig our economy, we know that when we organize, we are more powerful than any big bank, lobbyist firm, or special interest. That is why Wall Street and the GOP are so desperate to keep consumers from taking class action against banks that have done wrong. They know
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percent — of any two-term sitting president since modern polling was invented. Bill Clinton left office with the American people having greater faith in government and optimism for the future, with almost two-thirds approving of the job he had done as president of the United States. On this, the 25th anniversary of Bill Clinton’s first election as president, that is an America and that is presidential leadership worth remembering — and worth trying to restore some day, I hope, in the not-too-distant future. Lanny Davis is a columnist for The Hill newspaper and is co-founder of both the Washington law firm Davis Goldberg Galper PLLC and Trident DMG, a strategic media firm specializing in crisis management.
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Lanny Davis writes in praise of Bill Clinton’s supposed legacy of making the Democratic Party “competitive again as a national party”. But nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, Bill Clinton virtually destroyed the Democratic Party as the dominant political force it had been for more than 60 years, since the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932. It’s true, Republicans had been successful at the presidential level from 1968 through 1988, but that success was not widely echoed in other realms. They did gain control of the Senate in 1980, but lost it again in 1986, and they never came close to winning control of the House, which they had only controlled twice— four years total—since 1932. Democrats also controlled a solid majority of state governments as well. Despite Reagan’s vaunted “popularity,” it did not trickle down to help the rest of his party, nor was Reagan as popular at the time as he was later made out to be. What really changed American politics was Bill Clinton, “moving the Democrats to center”—by which pundits like Davis mean moving them to the right, because with control of the House and the majority state governments, there’s simply no way to pretend that the Democrats weren’t already occupying the center of American politics.
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adversary, of government — an engine of growth and job creation but still in need of reasonable regulation. He taught us that government needed to spend more to help level the playing field for middle-class and working families and the poor and the dispossessed. But he also talked about the need for fiscal responsibility and working toward a balanced budget, rather than using government credit cards to spend public money and then leaving our children and grandchildren to pay off the debt. He confused ideologues on both sides, and especially in the pundit class. His positions seemed to reflect a new political alloy not seen before — mixing social liberalism with cultural moderation and fiscal conservatism. He saw the electoral map as a national one, not the one that divided the country into left vs. right, or — as came to be depicted in the 2000 election, and thereafter, on electoral maps on TV screens — as “blue states” versus “red states.” He proved such a Democrat could win in the Deep South, such as Georgia and Louisiana, as well as in Arizona, Tennessee and Arkansas. Yes, Bill Clinton made a number of mistakes in his personal life, causing hurt and pain. But let us not forget that Bill Clinton — albeit, in his own words at the time, way too late — apologized to the nation publicly, to his wife, family, friends and to those whom he had hurt, for those mistakes. In December 1998, a narrow and almost entirely partisan Republican majority of the House of Representatives, including lame ducks who had been defeated for reelection in the 1998 congressional races, voted in favor of three articles of impeachment. Yet, despite there being a substantial majority of 55 Republican senators, the House Republicans managing the impeachment trial could not obtain a majority, or 51 votes, to support a single one of those three House impeachment articles— not one. I have known Bill Clinton for more than 47 years. I know him to be a good man, a good friend, with a good heart. When he left office on Jan. 20, 2001, after serving eight years, I was certain that he would be regarded by historians as a very good president and that the American people would approve of the job he had done for them and their families as president. And I had proof I was right. On his last day in office, on Jan. 19, 2001, Bill Clinton had the highest approval rating — 65
each of our bodies doing unknown damage to our brain and other organs, disrupting our endocrine system! However, your editorial does not go far enough in blaming the polluters and anti-science politicians. This is the task before the general population and must be led by the scientific community. It is the lack of action by the Democrats and Republicans that has put us in the predicament of us facing down our own extinction as the drive for profits under this economic system destroys our planet. The drive for profits over humanity needs equals: “the 3 richest Americans have more wealth than the bottom half of the country” (160 million people!) (LAT 11/13, Collins and Hoxie) Politicians and governments respond first and foremost to massive peaceful legal demonstrations. The successes
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[Fountain of Youth, from p. 1]
Fountain of Youth Peterson is a piano tuner by trade. He has never married and he has no children. The work of a piano tuner is a sedentary one, but he enjoyed it. Peterson described a period during which he was afflicted by a deep depression, some would have called it a midlife crisis, but he wouldn’t. In fact, Peterson doesn’t speak much about this period of his life at all, except to say that he was overweight and unhappy with his life up to that point. Rather than dwell on his feelings, he looked for something else to do to fill what was missing. Peterson admitted that he suffered from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. “If you hadn’t noticed already, I’m kind of a hyper guy. I’ve had ADHD all my life. But the great thing about ADHD is that it lets you hyper focus on what you love.” And Peterson loves unicycling as much as he loves piano tuning. He said he found he needed to excel at something other than his job to relieve is depression. He composes music but he needed something physical to get the juices flowing. After awhile he started feeling psychologically better.
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When he picked up the unicycle again, Peterson said he had a spare tire around his waist and was not feeling great physically. He thought about running to get the weight off, but it hurt his knees. He considered swimming; he noted it was a good overall exercise, but it was inconvenient — finding a pool with which he was comfortable and dealing with opening and closing times. He considered mountain biking, but thought it too boring, even though there were Red Bull like events of mountain bikers going up and down mountains and jumping off of cliffs. Then, Peterson saw a Kris Holm video on YouTube. Holm is a pioneer in mountain unicycling. He rode across the great wall of China and other rocky terrains, doing drops from heights of 15 feet or more. He also rides in Vancouver’s North Shore where there is an abundance of trails and wooden ramps. It was then Peterson wondered if he could still ride. It had been 40 years. So he purchased a unicycle online, took it into his backyard when it arrived and tried it.
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It was like learning to ride a unicycle again. “I couldn’t believe it. I got up on my first mount and picked up where I left off 40 years before. Once you learn you never forget. Your muscles remember. So I started taking it off road. It wasn’t the proper unicycle for that. It didn’t have the nobby tires, but I just tried that, and I was huffing and puffing every 50 feet. I didn’t have any cardio. I was out of shape.” He eventually got a better unicycle. But little by little he got better. After about 6 months, he was tearing up the trails, riding nearly every day. He had lost a lot of weight, going from 175 pounds to 145 pounds. “It’s not that I’m trying to be thin. But I ride six days a week so I burn so many calories. When we’re kids, we have such a high metabolism. But as you well know, your metabolism declines as you age. But going back to the depression thing, it also makes you feel better. It’s almost like a runner’s high,” Peterson explained.
If one were to distill Peterson’s “fountain of youth” into a formula, it would be all consuming passion plus exercise and connection. Like Kris Holm, YouTube became a natural platform for Peterson to promote unicycling. In the past 10 years since he began posting videos of unicycling exploits, he has amassed 4,733 subscribers and nearly 3 million views on his 600 plus videos on his YouTube channel. It is because of this platform that he has been able to expose unicycling to a whole new community of people he never met before. “I’ve met so many people around the world. Not in person, but they’ve seen my videos and I save more correspondence with them,” he said. “My favorites are older people. ‘I’m 35, I’m 45, I’m 55. I thought I was too old until I saw you ride.”
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up at some neighborhood council meetings, such as the Harbor City Neighborhood Council, Random Lengths News has yet to receive an actual press release from either the councilman or LimeBikes. Song said it was not his company’s intention to ignore local press and promised to improve communications. “We don’t go into cities and leave communities without working with stakeholders and leaders,” Song said. “There is a face attached. We’d love to do more events with you guys to help educate the rider.” Metro Bike operates on a dock system paid for by the company and the local government. As an established company, it is able to provide robust systems that can be used for as little $3.50 for a 30minute ride by using a credit card or a TAP card. Riders also have an option to buy day passes, and
monthly or yearly cards at much lower rates. For example, a yearly card is $40. Some community members wonder how the LimeBikes compare to Metro Bike Share bicycles. Song said LimeBike’s pilot program is not so much a competition but a complement to the existing system. Sotero agrees. “It’s all good news for mobility,” he said. “This is helping solve the problem of congestion in LA County.” He said the future might even bring compatibility in the technology of the bicycles so that the end user is able to use whichever bike without having to look at different options of payment. Learn more about the Metro Bike Share program at www.metro.net/bikeshare, https:// bikeshare.metro.net/stations, or by calling (844) 857-2473.
By Melina Paris, Music Columnist For a culture obsessed with youth, authenticity matters. This is especially true if golden age artists are able remain relevant, when decades separate them from their audience. Exene Cervenka and John Doe, members of the punk band X, are perfect examples. At their Nov. 4 concert at Brouwerij West in San Pedro, the two circled back to their roots, which encompass the American staples of folk, blues and rockabilly pop. This benefit concert for Palos Verdes Art Center attracted a diverse age range from 20 to 70. The bandmates and former couple make great harmony together. Whatever style music they play, that is their motif. But there’s something more at work here. Doe’s rolling guitar rhythms and their sweet melodies grab your spirit; their emotionally intelligent lyrics capture your mind. As loved as X was and is, the band never got much radio play during the prime of punk. That lack of play on radio and on MTV did not affect X’s popularity and might have ultimately added to the band’s mystique. They were playing many Los Angeles’ clubs such as the Whisky a Go-Go, Madame Wong’s and The Masque from the 70s to the late 80s. [See Reunited, p. 17]
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Exene Cervenka and John Doe performed a benefit concert for the Palos Verdes Art Center at Brouwerij West in San Pedro. Cervenka has an exhibit of collage art at PVAC through Dec. 31. Photo by Chris Valle, courtesy of PVAC.
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reparing Thanksgiving dinner for the whole family year after year can be a real chore, not to mention irritating when distant relatives you never see show up on your doorstep with take-home containers. Here are a few Harbor Area restaurants Random Lengths News recommends for those who want to shirk this traditional workload.
Ports O’ Call Restaurant
The Thanksgiving Brunch served by the Ports O’ Call Restaurant and Spirit Cruises family was voted best Sunday Brunch in the South Bay for 2015 and 2016. Enjoy two hours of free-flowing champagne during a brunch that serves from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. There are standard brunch and Thanksgiving options, including oven-roasted hand-carved turkey, housemade stuffing, pumpkin pie, mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberries, yams, oven roasted hand-carved ham, an omelet station, waffles, unlimited bacon, eggs Benedict, chicken fajitas, fresh crab; poached salmon, fresh fruit and desserts. Those who want something out of the ordinary will find Korean ribs, seafood, prime rib, pasta, pork ribs, chicken mozzarella and some special items they’re keeping on the downlow. Grab a plate, a glass of champagne and relax
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on the waterfront patio while sending gloating texts to friends and family in colder climates. If you make Thanksgiving brunch reservations for the early seating, you’ll get a free ticket for Spirit Cruises’ first harbor cruise of the day at 12:30 p.m. Champagne service is for up to two hours. Ports O’ Call Restaurant’s holiday menu will continue through the New Year. Time: 11 a.m. through 6 p.m. Cost: $20 to $50 Details: (310) 833-3553 Venue: Ports O’ Call Restaurant, 1200 Nagoya Way, San Pedro
Queen Mary
Enjoy first-class dining aboard the worldfamous Queen Mary and celebrate Thanksgiving in style by reserving a table at Sir Winston’s or Chelsea Chowder House. Otherwise, walk-ins are welcome at the Promenade Cafe’s awardwinning brunch until all tables are full. The award-winning cuisine at Sir Winston’s Restaurant & Lounge features a diverse menu of traditional favorites served while pianist Scott MacDonald tickles standard tunes from the ivories. Hours of operations are from 12 to 7 p.m. Prices are $74 and $24.95 for children 4 to 11. For reservations call (562) 499-1657.
Parking is $8 with restaurant validation. People whose Thanksgiving tradition includes NFL football can catch televised games with roast turkey and other delicious favorites at the Observation Bar and Chelsea Chowder House. No trip to Chelsea’s would be complete without trying one of their signature chowders. Hours of operation are from 5 to 10 p.m. Costs are $48 and $19.95 for children 4 to 11. For details call (562) 499-1685. The Promenade Cafe’s atmosphere of casual and friendly fun does not preclude a classic family Thanksgiving Day dinner overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Hours of operations are from 6:30 to 10 p.m. Costs are $31.95 and $19.95 for children 4 to 11. The rest of the family can burn off holiday calories by visiting Chill, where there is ice skating, ice tubing and marvelling at the incredible Ice Kingdom. Note: The Tea Room will be closed on Thanksgiving. The Midship Marketplace and Observation Bar will be open during their regularly scheduled hours. Details: www.queenmary.com Venue: 1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach
The Whale & Ale
San Pedro’s standard bearer will be open and serving the Thanksgiving essentials: freshly carved roast turkey with veggies, mashed potatoes, house stuffing, country gravy and cranberry sauce. But there’s also plenty to choose from for anyone who prefers a less-traditional dinner. Expect to see beef Wellington, The Whale & Ale roast prime rib au jus, an 8-ounce choice filet mignon, roast rack of New Zealand lamb, shepherd’s pie, curry, glazed twice-roasted quarter duckling in Cumberland sauce, baked Scottish salmon, and Chilean sea bass. There will be vegetarian options, too. Featured on Thanksgiving evening (as it was the Thursday of the past year) is a very special wine: Beaujolais nouveau, which is annually shipped from France on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. The Whale & Ale tends to get busy, so it’s wise to make a reservation. Time: 1 to 7 p.m. Nov. 23 Details: (310) 832-0363 Venue: 327 W. 7th St., San Pedro
From Syracuse to San Pedro:
Studio 347 Exhibits Syracuse University MFA Students By Andrea Serna, Arts and Culture Writer
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n a modest San Pedro neighborhood overlooking the Port of Los Angeles sits a small house with a sizable ambition. Each semester Syracuse University in New York chooses three students from the masters in fine arts program to come to California, reside in the Turner House, and participate in an intensive study program. On Dec. 2 Michael Stearns’ Studio 347 opens SU: LA New Beings, an exhibition by Syracuse University MFA candidates Hollie Lyko, Mika Mollenkopf and Preston Van Allen. SULA: New Beings showcases the diverse experimentation and breadth of practice within the Turner Semester Residency. Pushing aside traditional representations, SULA: New Beings expresses the body across several binaries: human/machine, real/imagined, exterior/interior. Working with computer technology, performance and video, mixed media assemblage and bookmaking, the works in this exhibition offer perspectives to a timeless subject.
In Syracuse the students had already established a working relationship, even though their practices are diverse. Van Allen has been a ceramicist since childhood. He was born and raised in Towanda, Pennsylvania — a small town 20 minutes from the New York state border. A very early influence was ceramicist Jack Troy Teacher, who had a studio in upstate Pennsylvania. His studio practice intersects ceramics, technology, and innovation. Working with ceramic 3D printing technology, he has designed and built a completely mechanically driven printer. This exhibition will feature his new machine, which he refers to as bricoleur — referring to a construction of diverse available material. Following a debilitating surgery Van Allen found himself unable to use the potter’s wheel. “I have a connection with both clay and 3D modeling,” acknowledged Van Allen. “But I didn’t know how to match the two until I started working with my professor on building and
Student artists in residence at the Turner House in San Pedro are a part of an exhibition that combines 3-D ceramic printing and performance art in a new exhibition called SULA: New Beings on opening on Dec. 2.
designing this printer that actually prints clay.” The current bricoleur is the sixth generation of his prototype. Live demonstrations of the ceramic printing process will take place at both the opening reception on Dec. 2 and the
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Four Sight is a group show featuring the works of Monica Belni, Pati Monge, Lisa Mosely and Gloria Sanchez. San Pedro is celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Frist Thursday Artwalk. Start your December Artwalk at the opening reception for the artists from 6 p.m. at PacArts, 303 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro, (562) 436-0700. Presented by EngAGE, www.engagedaging.org.
Studio 345 presents work by artists Pat Woolley and Gloria D Lee. All About Color, watercolors, acrylics and mixed media. Open 5 to 9 p.m. on First Thursday or by appointment. Studio 345, 345 W. 7th St., San Pedro. For information, call (310) 545-0832 or (310) 374-8055; artsail@roadrunner.com or www.patwoolleyart.com.
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M i c h ael S tea rn s Studio 347 presents SU LA: New Beings, a threeperson exhibition featuring work from Syracuse University M FA c a n d i d a te s Hollie Lyko, Mika Mollenkopf and Preston Van Allen. The three graduate students are in Los Angeles for the fall semester as part of the Turner Semester Residency through Syracuse University. This program, generously funded by Marylyn and Chuck Klaus, provides an immersion experience in the major art and culture hub of Los Angeles. The show opens on Dec. 2, 4 to 7 p.m. and will be open on First Thursday, Dec. 7 from 6 to 9 p.m. Michael Stearns Studio 347, 347 W. 7th St., San Pedro. For more details call (310) 429-0973 or (562) 400-0544.
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Curtain Call:
Improv Comedy Exactly as Advertised (for Better or Worse) By Greggory Moore, Curtain Call Columnist
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Garage Theatre presents BEH, improv comedy, Dec. 2 to 9. Photo by Cat Elrod
another a “creepy uncle” (typical of the input audiences give at this sort of thing), but romcom is a specific formula, so perhaps we’d go down a different road? Unfortunately, that road never materialized. For whatever reason, it doesn’t seem the cast was informed that they were supposed to be doing a rom-com, and so while we waited for that genre’s familiar conventions that never came, we got what seems to be the default for a show like this: a meandering Adam Sandler sort of silliness that doesn’t hew to the title until a tacked-on denouement. (How tacked on? For reasons unknown to this reviewer, none of the actors took on the role of the titular mom.) But if you’re the kind of person for whom improvisational comedy works, it probably doesn’t matter. I can’t speak for everyone in the audience, but some in attendance were quite vocal in their appreciation for what was
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Lyko and Mollenkopf have differing practices, but they worked to create a performance called Beings of Light. Mollenkopf’s social practice investigates and dissects relationships and the emotional connections and feelings formed within them, while Lyko’s practice typically revolves around the kitsch and the boundaries and aesthetics associated with low and high culture. “I’m really interested in how humor operates in art as a language” commented Lyko. “It is a universal language that is avoided in the art world.” What better than to take their combined interests to the boardwalk at Venice Beach? Dressed all in white as their alter-egos, The Beings of Light. Combining science fiction with superstition they visited the boardwalk on Friday the 13th. The women carried a transparent bag containing 1,000 custom fortune cookies filled with superstitions from around the world. Greeting passersby with holiday
cheer, they offered them the opportunity to choose their fortune. The objective was to push social boundaries within the public sphere, and playfully engage with strangers. The two women created video documentation of their Friday the 13th Beings of Light performance at Venice Beach, which will show in the gallery during the exhibition. The Turner House is a fully credentialed program funded by Chuck Klaus and Marylyn Ginsburg and supervised by Syracuse Professor of Painting, Kevin Larmon who serves as the faculty of record for the off-site program. Larmon has been offered permanent residence in San Pedro and we expect to see much more from the students rotating through each semester. Lyko, Mollenkopf and Van Allen will be returning to Syracuse mid-December. The exhibition at Studio 347 runs through Dec. 12. Time: 4 to 7 p.m. Dec. 2 Cost: Free Details: michaelstearnsstudio.com Venue: Michael Stearns Studio 347, 347 W. 7th St., San Pedro
happening on stage, clearly not giving the slightest damn for the fact that this was no rom-com. They didn’t care how juvenile the humor was—the more juvenile, the better. They didn’t care that historically well-worn musical cues (the openings to Careless Whisper, Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D-minor, and the themes to Dragnet, The People’s Court and The Pink Panther) were used over and over and over again. They loved that Clayton Steacker’s wannabe pole dancer was a 13-year-old named Jellyfish Johnson (he turned out to be an undercover cop, but never mind). They loved the characters’ silly accents and mannerisms. They loved the way Steacker perfectly found the spotlight for his monolog (well, even I loved that). They were the people who can walk into an Improv on a whim and are guaranteed to have a fun night. If you like this sort of thing, you just like this sort of thing. For others, BEH will seem like an acting
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nce more unto the breach with BEH, a completely improvised play that each audience has a hand in shaping. This is the second season in a row that the Garage Theatre has done BEH in lieu of a scripted play. Ironically, despite each performance being a completely new work, the performance of BEH that I saw felt almost identical to the one I saw last year. Perhaps that’s the nature of this beast. The good side of such seeming predictability is being able to guess well before showtime whether buying a ticket is money well spent. It’s all about your disposition toward improvisational theatre. Before each BEH begins, while the actors wait outside, a master of ceremonies solicits from the audience input on the type of play it wants, how to set the stage, what props to include, a character trait for each cast member, and the play’s title. The audience on opening night wanted My Mom Wrote a Porno, an erotic romantic comedy. With that decided, the actors come in like WWE wrestlers to the ring and are given the skinny. From there two of them are chosen at random to be in the opening scene, and we’re off, with barely a huddle from the cast. Although there are acquired tastes in life, improvisational comedy is probably not one of them. You either like it or you don’t. Because I fall into the latter category, the Garage is a bit screwed to have me review BEH, whatever my hopes that I would see a show somewhat different from what I witnessed last year. That one was called Armadillo Nights, whose characters had traits like “shrugs his shoulders a lot,” “has an irrational fear of cattle,” and “is a UFC fighter,” and turned out every bit as silly as that sounds. At first blush, My Mom Wrote a Porno seems like more of the same, especially when the audience decreed that one character have a lifelong dream of being a pole dancer and made
exercise—and probably one you’ve seen before. You might appreciate the cast members esprit and how much they’re enjoying themselves, but you won’t find it contagious. You might be impressed at how they collectively make something out of nothing right in front of your eyes, but that’s not how the kind of things you like are made. Whether you should see this show depends completely on what kind of person you are. If this is your bag, you’re almost certain to be amused, and you might be in for an evening full of belly laughs. If this isn’t your bag, there’s nothing the Garage is likely to do—or could do—with BEH that’s going to change you one bit. Postscript: On Dec. 2 and 9 (Saturdays), in addition to the night show, the Garage Theatre has two “family-friendly” matinees. Smart move, as I imagine those shows will be very funny shows for children 7 to 13. Time: Thursday-Saturday 8 p.m. (no shows Nov. 23 to 25), plus “family-friendly matinees” Dec. 2 and 9 at 2 p.m. Runs through Dec. 16 Cost: $15 to $20 (Thursdays 2-for-1) Details: (562) 433-8337; theGarageTheatre.org Venue: Garage Theatre, 251 E. 7th St., Long Beach
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NOV 23 - DEC 6 • 2017 ENTERTAINMENT Nov. 24
The Crowd The American punk rock band from Huntington Beach formed in 1978 by brothers Jim and Jay Decker and guitarist Jim Kaa. They later were joined by drummer Dennis Walsh. Time: 8 p.m. Nov. 24 Cost: $40 Details: www.alexsbar.com Venue: Alex’s Bar, 2913 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach
Nov. 25
Dawes Dawes will release a limitededition double LP pressing of We’re All Gonna Live, the first official live concert recording from the band, via their own HUB Records. Time: 4 to 6 p.m Nov. 25 Cost: $12.99 Details: (562) 433-4996 Venue: Fingerprints Music, 420 E. 4th St., Long Beach
November 23 - December 6, 2017
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Monday Night San Pedro Jam Session Every Monday night instrumentalists and vocalists are welcome to sitin and play jazz standards with the Hugh von Kleist Quartet. All levels and experience welcome. Time: 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Nov. 27 Cost: Free Details: (424) 570-0514 Venue: Crimsin Lounge, 345 W. 6 th St., San Pedro
Nov. 30
Rick Parma Jazz it with Rick Parma and the Chitown Soul. Time: 6 to 10 p.m. Nov. 30 Cost: $25 to $310 Details: www.solvenue.com Venue: 313 E. Carson St., Carson
Dec. 1
Trio Céleste Based in Orange County, Trio Céleste is ensemblein-residence at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at UC Irvine. Time: 12 p.m. Dec. 1 Cost: Free Details: (310) 316-5574; w w w. p a l o s v e r d e s . c o m / ClassicalCrossroads/ FirstFridays.htm Venue: First Lutheran Church and School, 2900 W. Carson St., Torrance One Drop The San Diego-based band embraces the spirit of classic roots reggae and dub music with a calculated blend of rhythm and blues, pop and rock subtleties. Time: 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. Dec. 1 Cost: $15 to $300 Details: (424) 276-9705;
www.solvenue.com Venue: The Sol Venue, 313 E. Carson St., Carson
Dec. 2
James Kimo West Kimo’s annual Holiday Slack Key Show kicks off in San Pedro with enchanting hula by Kevin Tsusui and Ku’uleilani Taketa. Kimo will play selections from his two acclaimed holiday slack key CDs as well as Hawaiian slack key classics. Time: 8 p.m. Dec. 2 Cost: $20 Details: https://alvasshowroom. com/event/james-kimo-westholiday-slack-key Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro Anita Chang, Rodney Oakes An eclectic concert of music by Anita Chang and Rodney Oakes for piano, sackbut, trombones and video will be presented at Los Angeles Harbor College. Chang will present works by Mozart, Chopin and Liszt. Oakes will present his new work for sackbut and piano, Pavane, a new video with electronic music. Time: 8 p.m. Dec.2 Cost: Free Details: (310) 233- 4429. Venue: LAHC, Music Dept., 1111 Figueroa Place, Wilmington
Dec. 3
Bobby Breton Bobby Breton and his six-piece band performs a variety of jazz, pop and originals to ring in the holiday spirit. Time: 2 p.m. Dec. 3 Cost: $22.50 Details: https://alvasshowroom. com/event/bobby-breton-friendscelebrate-the-winter-solstice Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro
THEATER Dec. 1
White Christmas This holiday season discover the perfect gift for everyone on your list. Start with a timeless tale of joy and goodwill, fill it with classic Irving Berlin songs, and top it off with glorious dancing and lots of snow and you have Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. Time: 8 p.m. Dec. 1, 2, 8 and 9, 2 p.m. Dec. 2 and 9, 1 p.m. Dec. 3 and 10, and 6 p.m. Dec. 3 Cost: $20 to $90 Details: (562) 856-1999; www.musical.org Venue: Carpenter Performing Arts Center, 6200 Atherton St., Long Beach
Dec. 9
The Nutcracker San Pedro City Ballet presents its 24th annual production of The Nutcracker, with artistic direction by Cynthia and Patrick David Bradley. Join Clara on a dreamlike journey with a dancing Nutcracker, mischievous mice, sparkling snowflakes, and a magical Christmas tree. Time: 2 and 7 p.m. Dec. 9, and 2 p.m. Dec. 10
Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Nov. 24 Cost: Free Details: www.rei.com/event/ optoutside-nature-walkalta-vicente/rancho-palosverdes/190466, www.pvplc.org Venue: Rancho Palos Verdes City Hall parking area, 30940 Hawthorne Blvd, Rancho Palos Verdes
Cost: $19 to $39 Details: www.sanpedrocityballet. org/upcoming-events/nutcracker Venue: Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro
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Arsenic and Old Lace If you are a lonely, elderly gentleman, steer clear of the old Victorian rooming house that Abby and Martha Brewster run. It may be your last room on Earth! When these two sweet old sisters feel the need to release a worthy roomer of his lonely suffering, just a sip of their homemade elderberry wine will do the trick. Time: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 2 p.m. Sundays, through Dec. 2 Cost: $10 to $27 Details: www.lbplayhouse.org/ show/arsenic-and-old-lace Venue: Long Beach Playhouse, 5021 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach Much Ado About Nothing The drama of military war and the comedic war between the sexes meet in the great playwright’s hilarious, heart-wrenching comedy. Set in a timeless world of disguises, intrigue, beautiful words and surprising violence. It is performed by a talented allfemale cast. Time: 8 p.m. Dec. 1 and 2, and 3 p.m. Dec. 3 Cost: $10 Details: www.eventbrite.com/e/ much-ado-about-nothing-tickets38483341711 Venue: The Collaborative, 421 W. Broadway, Long Beach The Night Before the Night Before Christmas Lou has wrestled with a big ball of tangled Christmas lights for the last time. Christmas is cancelled. Escaping New Jersey, the freezing cold, his nutty family and most of all the holidays, is exactly what Lou plans to do. Will a couple of unlikely characters help restore Lou and Carol’s Christmas spirit in the St. Nick of time? Time: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sundays, through Dec. 16 Cost: $27 Details: www.littlefishtheatre.org/ wp/the-night-before-the-nightbefore-christmas Venue: Little Fish Theatre, 777 S. Centre St., San Pedro BEH — An Improvised Play Who are the characters in BEH? Where does BEH take place? What is the plot of BEH? You tell us — BEH is an improvised play. Time: 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, through Dec. 16 Cost: $20 Details: www.thegaragetheatre. org/on-stage-now-1 Venue: The Garage Theatre, 251 E. 7th St., Long Beach
ARTS Dec. 2
AGCC Open Studios Open Studios Day is a biannual event at Angels Gate Cultural Center celebrating all that
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Visit the Holiday Open House and Artisan Market at Cabrillo Marine Aquarium gift shop, Nov. 26. Browse ocean-related collectibles, ornaments, books and perfect holiday gifts as part of Museum Store Sunday. www.cabrillomarineaquarium.org
happens on our campus and the diverse and lively community that makes us unique. More than 50 studio artists will open their doors for you to see what they create in their studios. Time: 12 to 4 p.m. Dec. 2 Cost: Free Details: www.angelsgateart.org Venue: AGCC, 3601 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro
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blink•point TransVagrant Projects and Gallery 478 are pleased to present blink•point, recent work by Ellwood T. Risk, a self-taught artist who has been living and working in Los Angeles since 1992. Risk appropriates, alters, recontextualizes, shoots (here and there) and represents the ordinary in unanticipated iterations. Time: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, through Nov. 25 Cost: Free Details: (310) 600-4873; (310) 732-2150 Venue: TransVagrant Projects and Gallery 478, 478 W. 7th St., San Pedro rebidishu III Los Angeles Harbor College Fine Arts Gallery presents rebidishu III, Recent Paintings by Katy Crowe. Abstract art is often seen as carrying a moral dimension, in that it can be interpreted to stand for virtues ranging from order and purity, to simplicity and spirituality. In the case of Crowe, virtue is obtained by process and intuition. Time: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, through Nov. 30 Cost: Free Details: (310) 233-4411 Venue: Los Angeles Harbor College Fine Arts Gallery, 1111 Figueroa Place, Wilmington Rino Gonzalez Rino Gonzalez has attracted an impressive following for his works of realism during the almost 40 years since his immigration from the Philippines at age 16. Time: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m Tuesday through Saturday, through Dec. 2 Cost: Free Details: (310) 547-3158;
parkhurstgalleries.com Venue: Parkhurst Galleries, 439 W 6th St, San Pedro Exene Cervenka in Collage Exene Cervenka: Lipstick Sunset combines the pieces on display combine handwork and appropriated images, written words and found text that present a perplexing and highly personal world. Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, and 1 to 4 p.m. Sundays, through Dec. 31 Cost: Free Details: (310) 541-2479; www. pvartcenter.org Venue: Palos Verdes Art Center, 5504 Crestridge Road. Rancho Palos Verdes Moon Over San Pedro Ann Weber’s large biomorphic sculptures have been described as bizarre characters from a story, hanging on the wall or sitting in the middle of the gallery like strange and evocative outcroppings of nature or outer space. Time: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursdays, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays through Sundays, through Feb. 4, 2018 Cost: $6 to $7 Details: lbma.org Venue: Long Beach Museum of Art, 2300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach
COMMUNITY Nov. 23
Long Beach Turkey Trot Run or walk a 5K or 10K on Thanksgiving morning on the scenic, very flat beach path to help raise money for Jusitn Rudd’s nonprofit Community Action Team. Time: 7 to 11 a.m., Nov. 23 Details: www.justinrudd.com Cost: $25 to $40 Venue: Alamitos Beach, 1 Granada Ave., Long Beach
Nov. 24
#OptOutside Nature Walk Black Friday Join a great occasion that gets people outside in nature on Black Friday. Black Friday is now a day for people to reconnect with the outdoors.
Naturalist Guided Walk Take a walk on the wild side. RSVP. Time: 9 a.m. Nov. 25 Cost: Free Details: pvplc.org Venue: White Point Nature Preserve, 1600 Paseo Del Mar, San Pedro
Nov. 26
Holiday Open House, Artisan Market Join Cabrillo Marine Aquarium for a special Holiday Open House and Artisan Market.Enjoy yummy refreshments while browsing hundreds of collectible ornaments, fascinating books and specially curated oceanthemed gifts as part of Museum Store Sunday. Time: 12 to 5 p.m. Nov. 26 Cost: Free Details: (310) 548-7562; www. cabrillomarineaquarium.org Venue: CMA, 3720 Stephen M. White Dr., San Pedro
Dec. 2
Harbor Holiday Afloat Parade The holiday season starts on the Main Channel in the Port of Los Angeles. See the boats decked out with lights and Christmas spirit. Time: 6 p.m Dec. 2 Cost: Free Details: www.laharborholiday afloat.org Venue: East Basin through the Main Channel, Port of LA
Dec. 3
37th Annual Spirit of San Pedro Holiday Parade This year’s Grand Marshal Marc Wallengren will lead the San Pedro holiday tradition. Time: 1 p.m Dec. 3 Cost: Free Details: www.spholiday parade.com Venue: 13th St. and Pacific Ave. to 6th and Palos Verdes sts.
Dec. 5
Repeal Day Dinner Celebration The Thoughtful Feast commemorates the repeal of Prohibition with a throw-back dinner featuring classic dishes from Trani’s Majestic Cafe. Chef Dustin, a fourth generation Trani, will prepare the 4-course dinner. Historian and author Richard Foss will present a taste of 5 cocktails that show how palates changed before and after Prohibition. Time: 7 p.m Dec. 5 Cost: $75/$85 Details: www.pacificfood.org/ events Venue: J Trani’s, 584 W. 9th St., San Pedro
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The brazen poetry on Because I Do, a song about marriage, speaks of renegade intentions within the traditional wedded state. Before they closed their set Exene made a point to mention the opening bands, Alinea and the Feels. She praised their playing and expressed thanks that they were part of this show. The Feels, comprised of three women on vocals, bass and guitars and one male drummer performed a robust combination of metal, ballads and punk. They describe themselves as a psych-punk-grunge-post-future-rock ‘n’ rollwhatever-band and have recently been playing clubs all over Los Angeles. Proceeds from the event will enable Palos Verdes Art Center to expand its art education programs for neighboring communities in the Harbor Area. Details: www.xtheband.com
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Exene Cervenka of X and Mike Watt of the Minutemen fame are example of classic artists that draws younger audiences. Photos by Chris Valle.
make the observer think. Seeing the duo’s remarkable timing and connection in action is gratifying and John’s rolling guitar melodies carry you away. Their acoustic set offered a unique take on their more familiar tunes. One of their biggest hits, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts, originally a fast guitar driven expression of youthful irreverence, became a contemplative mantra of maturity with the acoustic version. And with, The New World, a cautionary tale became a reflective narrative of regret.
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It was a time when different punk factions formed. A younger hard core punk subculture was emerging. It was generally faster, harder and more aggressive than other forms of punk rock. Their concerts could be rowdy and sometimes violent. A rivalry occurred between the harder youth punks and the Hollywood punks who were perceived to be elite. This gave an unsavory name to Los Angeles punk versus the original New York and London punk scenes, which were more celebrated and garnered more media recognition. X escaped all of that. What probably helped was that when these events began happening X was taking a turn back to their musical roots encompassing Americana, country and folk. Their musicianship and raw talent for playing and writing music and going deeper into their roots, brought fans willingly along in their journey. X’s fans reflected the band’s musical diversity, some appeared at the concert in avantgarde punk attire while others donned rockabilly digs. At first the audience convened at the stage like they were watching a film, not sure what to expect. Exene and John kicked it off with a sweet harmonic country style number. Afterward, Exene took a moment to mention the Palos Verdes Art Center where she has an exhibit through Dec. 31, of mixed media collages titled, Lipstick Sunset. The expression of straightforward emotion is typical of the acclaimed poet, artist, author, and vocalist. Exene’s artworks are provocative, just like the songs that made X so popular. Their lyrics are always sweet, yet, piercing. As John has said, “It’s punk. It’s intended to grab attention and make you face what’s being said. Then it makes you listen deeper.” Exene is not a storyteller in writing music. She makes personal statements and “more emotional and existential visions of things.” She has said the more personal you are, the more general, (or applicable you are) to people. And her collages of mixed media and text also uncover personal and urgent expressions that
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43 Hockey legend Bobby 44 PC drive insert, once 46 Result of a three-putt, maybe 50 Basketball Hall of Fame sportscaster Dick 52 “Quite so,” in Quebec 54 Channel skipped on old TV dials 55 Sparring with a punching bag for only half the usual time, e.g.? 59 President born in 1961 60 Kristen of “Bridesmaids” 61 Laila and Tatyana, for two 62 Saucer-steering creature 63 Former education secretary Duncan 64 Actress Garr of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” 65 Houseplant with fronds 66 Cribbage markers 67 Old Internet suffix for Friend or Nap
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DBA FILINGS [from p. 18] false is guilty of a crime.) S/: Patti Kraakevik, CEO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Oct. 11, 2017. Notice--In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920. A fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed
in the office of the county clerk, except as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920 where it expire 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. The
filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Professions code). Original filing: 10/26/2017,
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Nov. 22, 1946 – Oct. 18, 2017 Dacie Callon died in her home in Rancho Palos Verdes surrounded by her family after a brief battle with cancer. Dacie, born in Philadelphia, PA was a gifted math tutor. She helped many local high school students improve their self-esteem as well as their math grades. Dacie was active and vivacious. An ardent supporter of San Pedro’s First Thursdays, she never missed an artwalk and would join her many friends for a night out.
She is survived by her husband of 40 years, Jim Callon, owner of JDC Records and their children, Michael, Kevin and Amie; stepchildren Charmian and Chris; and many grandchildren. A celebration of Dacie’s life was held on Nov. 20 at the Wayfarer’s Chapel in RPV.
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Clinton
That changed when Bill Clinton was elected, and pushed strenuously to get North American Free Trade Agreement passed by Congress, over the vehement objections of labor, environmentalists, and rank-and-file Democrats all across the land. In the House roll call vote, Democrats opposed the treaty, 156 to 102, while Republicans overwhelmingly supported it, 132 to 43. A demoralized Democratic base failed to show up in the following 1994 midterms and the GOP gained control of the House for the first time since 1954. Democrats also lost a majority of state governors for the first time since 1970 and lost control of a plurality of state legislatures for the first time since a 20-20 split in 1969. All these losses took more than a decade to recover from. Most telling, in light of the 2016 election results which put Trump in the White House—were the votes of House members in the following states.
Votes for NAFTA are listed first in all cases: • Pennsylvania: Democrats 0-11; Republicans 7-2 • Ohio: Democrats 2-8; Republicans 7-2 • Michigan: Democrats 0-10; Republicans 5-0 • Wisconsin: Democrats 0-4; Republicans 5-0 So in those four states, which gave Trump his margin of victory in the Electoral College, only two of 35 Democrats supported NAFTA, while only four of 28 Republicans opposed it. As I wrote in Salon at that time, “It could not possibly have been more clear whose interests each party represented in these key states. Heedless of their House members, the neoliberal Democratic establishment abandoned the party’s base. Democrats have been paying the price ever since, but never as painfully as on Election Day 2016.” That is Bill Clinton’s true legacy. That, and a professional elite profoundly out of touch with the party’s base—a professional elite that, like Lanny Davis, never tires of singing Clinton’s praises for all the damage that he’s done. And, they still don’t understand why Bernie Sanders is the most popular politician in America.
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