RLn 9-29-22

FOR SALE?

Rancho LPG Sale Could Put an End to 50-Year Threat

By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor

The same day that a $230 million class action settlement was approved against Plains All American for the 2015 Refugio Oil Spill on the Santa Barbara coast, homeowner activist Janet Gunter received an email heralding Plains’ likely sale of the dangerous Rancho LPG facility, which Gunter has been fighting to close for at least a decade and a half.

Plains has been selling off assets in California since that spill, and rumors about Rancho being sold have

been circulating for some time, but the email from Jason Hines, a partner with Torrance-based Overton Moore Properties, is the first tangible evidence that a sale is in the works—a sale that would convert the site to a harm less industrial use. However, the plans are “not a done deal” he subsequently told her.

But the first Rancho-related news that day was a new report from USC highlighting the vast understatement of risk Rancho poses, not just to the immediate com

munity, but to the nation as a whole, given the poten tial destruction of the Los Angeles/Long Beach port complex.

“Were the dangerous substance to be ignited, the energy released would be on par with a nuclear bomb,” the report by USC student Tim Saunders notes. “Key infrastructural pieces — the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach — would be decimated by the resulting explosion. Forty percent of the United States’ ability to import goods would be lost, the thousands of jobs supported nationwide would be affected, and overall, the economy of the country would fall into recession. This makes the danger of the facility a national concern.”

This extreme danger has been consistently down played for decades, but now finally may be coming to an end.

By Anealia Kortkamp, Contributor

Los Angeles County is a juggernaut, not just in California but nationally. It has a gross domestic prod uct roughly that of Saudi Arabia on its own, and makes up 3.8% of the U.S. economy, the largest contribution of any county, and beating out all but the five biggest states. The county has a disproportionate influence on national politics because of this; in many ways it helps to set the mood for economic politics across the western half of the nation. It is for this reason that politics in the county matter, even when the city in question does not bear the county’s name.

Long Beach, second biggest city in the county, one half arbiter of the massive port complex, and the most diverse major city in the country, is once again in its election season. Its city council of nine has three of its seats up for grabs, putting a large realignment of city

priorities on the table. Normally this would be five seats instead of three, but in district one and seven the race was secured in the June primaries by the incumbents. Incumbent Mary Zendejas secured over 50% of the vote in district one and incumbent Roberto Uranga did the same in district seven. This leaves districts three, five, and nine up for grabs with two candidates fighting it out in each come Nov. 8, though the latter two were almost won in the primaries as well.

District three is composed of the affluent Belmont, Naples, Alamitos Heights and Peninsula communities, the highly regimented Bixby Village, and the various middle income neighborhoods of the eastern half of the eastside, with Pacific Coast Highway forming the border of its most northern half. The class aspect of this race

“We have plans to acquire the San Pedro LPG/ Butane facility and close it down and redevelop the site with a high quality, state of the art, industrial de velopment,” Hines told Gunter in his email, “I would like to plan a time to meet with you and share our plans while getting your feedback.”

OMP has dozens of similar completed develop ments in California listed on its website. But Hines didn’t provide further information. Rather, he com plained that the story had “leaked to the press,” Gunter told Random Lengths News. “He said the sale has not been completed. It’s not a done deal, and any further information should be kept in confidence” she explained. And she agreed to do that. But their plans to meet appear unaffected, and even if OMP’s plans do fall through, this confirms months of rumors that Rancho LPG is for sale, and that the dangers it poses

Andrew Macatrao, left, and Wolf Bradley

Rancho LPG, a storage facility in San Pedro that holds fuel tanks that could kill hundreds of thousands of people if they were to explode. Graphic by Suzanne Matsumiya

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New Storage Facility Proposed in San Pedro

By Hunter Chase, Community News Reporter

Developers are planning to build a storage facility at 825 W. Miraflores Ave. in San Pedro, and on Sept. 15, the Northwest San Pedro Neighborhood Council voted 12-0 with one recusal to support the project, albeit with conditions. On Sept. 28, the Los Angeles Dept. of City Planning held a hearing for the project but took no formal action.

The neighborhood council’s support comes with the condition that the developers repair curbs, gutters and sidewalks nearby, and that there will be no long-term parking in the parking lot, said Diana Nave, chair of the neighborhood council’s planning and land use committee. In addition, the council’s conditions include that the hours of operation will be from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and that the developers try to save about 10 pine trees they have proposed removing.

“What we eventually are asking them to do is contact the city’s office of forest management to make sure that it’s done properly, and that they can be saved,” Nave said.

The proposed project will be two stories and 37,000 square feet. It will include 20 parking stalls. Its proposed hours are from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., with the staff present from Monday through Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Nave said.

“Lots of cameras will help them control for unapproved uses,” Nave said. “There will be no outside storage. They will also have external lights in place.”

Nave said her committee reached out to

Miraflores Park Homeowners Association, which represents about half of the surrounding neighborhood, as well as one neighbor not represented by the association, and both supported the project.

“They were all in favor of the facility primarily because they felt that it was preferable to any other potential use that might be proposed, since it is an industrial zone,” Nave said. “They’re particularly concerned about anything that requires trucks, because they’ve got a problem already with truck traffic on Miraflores.”

The project will be directly behind the Harbor Animal Care Center, and Nave said that some neighbors thought that the center could provide a

buffer for the noise coming from the care center.

Honey Koletty, a representative of Miraflores Park Homeowners Association, spoke in favor of keeping the trees.

“We are in a canyon,” Koletty said. “The wildlife that we have here, we want to keep the wildlife. And also, climate change, I think the trees contribute to the health of the area, because there is a lot of truck activity here, we can use all the green we can get.”

Koletty said that other neighbors who live within 500 feet of the property are concerned about the construction. In particular, they are concerned about the traffic that it will bring.

One of four buildings on Miraflores Avenue that will be demolished for the construction of a proposed storage facility. Photo by Fabiola Esqueda

Rancho LPG Sale?

could finally be coming to an end.

Rancho reported an affected area .5 miles in its risk management assessment, but when Saun ders followed the identical procedure, “I got 3 miles,” he told Random Lengths News, and that was just for a single 12.6 million-gallon butane tank. But there are two such tanks at the site, plus five 60,000 gal propane tanks, and an explosion of any one would trigger an explosion of them all, yielding a radius of 10 ½ miles. “The truth is probably somewhere in between that,” he said. “But at this scale it doesn’t really matter wheth er we’re talking about 100,000 individuals or a million individuals within the affected area, the number is still so astronomically large. In con trast, Rancho claimed ‘There’s only 722 people in the area,’ but even that is still substantial,” Saunders said. “There’s a school that’s .2 miles away, there’s kids going in every day and fami lies putting their lives in danger without even knowing it.”

But the reality would be far worse. “A cata strophic event at Rancho LPG would be unpar alleled in terms of devastation in United States history,” the report notes. “Although ‘9/11’ is considered to be the most tragic loss of life in recent US memory, an incident at Rancho LPG would eclipse it 50 times over.”

LA’s Urban Oil Fields

In addition, Saunders noted, “LA is the larg est urban oilfield in the entire United States and if you have an explosion really close to a lot of oil sources, those are also going to blow up.”

His report also highlights the minimization of earthquake threat. “It’s not directly on a fault

line, but it’s within an earthquake rupture zone,” Saunders said, and was built to withstand a 5.5 magnitude earthquake, while the Palos Verdes fault — the main local fault line — “supports magnitudes of up to 7.3,” which is 63 times big ger than a 5.5 quake. [New research announced after RLn spoke to Saunders, ups that to mag nitude 7.8, 199 times bigger than a 5.5 quake.]

“So if we have an earthquake in California on that line, which is not super uncommon, then the tanks could easily be disrupted or displaced.”

In fact, Saunders said, when he’s asked what he’s been studying, he says, “There are like these nuclear bombs that are on a fault line.”

But at least there was some consideration of earthquake risk. But when it comes to ground stability issues, “It’s just not addressed at all,” Saunders said. Rancho did consider earthquake

and tsunami zones, but “They didn’t address that it also sits on a liquefaction zone and a landslide zone, which is obviously unstable ground.”

Also not considered is the threat of terrorism, which is extremely hard to quantify, but very easy to see. “There was already an attempt to blow up a nearly identical facility,” Saunders said. It was known as the ‘Twin Sisters’ plot in Elk Grove, California, just south of Sacramento, foiled by the FBI in 1999. “The targets were two large, 12 million-gallon propane tanks, which sounds ee rily familiar to the Rancho LPG configuration,” the report notes. “The goal of the terrorist plot was to cause enough death and destruction to de stabilize local government,” Saunders said.

There’s obviously a much higher threat level now than there was then. But nothing’s been done to address it. “The tanks are classified as a Tier

1 soft target. So they are the most dangerous in terms of the destruction that they can present as a target, while they require no defense whatsoever,” he said. “If someone were to shoot the tank with a high-powered rifle or launch an RPG, that would disrupt the tanks and lead to an explosion.”

The report also addressed “historical and political obstacles” that have prevented dealing with Rancho’s danger, most notably the power of big oil: “The vast political power mounted be hind Rancho LPG makes even addressing it as a threat problematic.”

“The battle is always going to be uphill,” Saunders said. “That’s just what oil does in the United States.”

A second major obstacle he cited was “Grandfathering, where there’s a precedent that’s been set that instead of constantly updating fa cilities to meet new building codes, because it would be really expensive, it is allowed to exist as they were when they were constructed.” It’s particularly bad in Rancho’s case, because of the relaxed standards and relaxed enforcement at the time it was built.

On top of all else, the report notes, “As the tanks were seen as a temporary solution and con structed quickly, they were not meant to last very long. They were built to last 25-years, seeing as other fuel options would be more accessible by that point. Obviously, it’s well past that date now.”

At long last, the facility may be about to close, if OMP’s deal goes through. But if not, Saunders’ report makes clear that public officials should be prepared to act quickly to close it some other way.

“It’s a waiting game, day in and day out,” the report warns. “Will everything go on as it has for decades, or will today be the day hundreds of thousands of people lose their lives?”

Activists Janet Gunter and Andrew Mardesich (who died in 2018), at the Rancho LPG facility in 2014. File photo

Eviction Moratorium Will End on Dec. 31

By Hunter Chase, Community News Reporter

At the end of the year, the County of Los Angeles’ moratorium prohibiting evictions will be lifted, and with it, several other renter protections will be lifted. These include preventing evictions from no fault of the tenants, from tenants being a nuisance, or having unauthorized occupants or pets. These also include a freeze on rent increases on rent stabilized units and mobile homes in unincorporated areas.

At the Sept. 13 meeting of the LA County Board of Supervisors, the board committed 3-2 to ending the moratorium at the end of the year, with supervisors Sheila Kuehl and Hilda Solis voting against it. The board also committed to informing both tenants and landlords that this change was coming.

Supervisor Kuehl said she wants to see the protections extended.

“I want to bring a motion to continue the tenant protections,” Kuehl said. “Not the nonpayment of rent, which we all agreed would have to be phased out because you can’t ask landlords to carry all the brunt of it, but to substitute for the freeze some cap, at least that’s what I will propose to this board, some cap of how much you can raise it every year, which many jurisdictions have. And that would just be in our unincorporated areas, as well as whether you can be kicked out for just any reason, or continue what we all voted for, which was eviction only for just cause. And just cause is serious enough that we need to get rid of you, not that we have two dogs instead of one or that your aunt moved in.”

The City of Los Angeles has a similar

moratorium in place, and the Los Angeles Housing Department recommended that it remain in place until the end of the year.

Daniel Yukelson, executive director of the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles, or AAGLA, spoke in favor of lifting the moratorium.

“We’ve had price controls now in place in LA County and LA City for nearly three years,” Yukelson said. “And

had rapidly rising inflation, gas prices are $5 to $6 a gallon. Labor shortages, supply shortages, and costs have been increasing all over.”

Yukelson said that insurance and property taxes have gone up because of the fires and litigation.

“Without being able to take on those price increases by increasing revenue, it’s really put owners in a bind,” Yukelson said.

Yukelson described the renter protections as extreme, and said that while they are scheduled to end at the end of the year, there have been several proposals to extend them, and said these could put property owners out of business.

“Rental property owners were the only service providers during COVID that were put under such restrictions,” Yukelson said. “No one else was required to abide by these price controls, where they couldn’t increase their income to deal with all the increase in cost. No other business had curbs put on it for pursuing collection of revenue. As a result, a lot of these property owners are going to be left holding the bag.”

Yukelson said that small, independent property owners will go out of business, and be replaced with corporations, who will turn buildings into condominiums or luxury rentals.

Lupita Gonzalez, the senior housing organizer

for the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, or ACCE, said that she supports extending the moratorium because the city and county are still in a health crisis. She gave an example of a person contracting COVID-19 and not being able to go to work for a week.

“If you don’t have work, you don’t receive a paycheck to pay the rent, pay the bills,” Gonzalez said.

Gonzalez said she wants to see the renter protections extended, as there are a lot of families still in need.

“It’s not because they don’t want to pay the rent,” Gonzalez said. “They want to pay the rent but don’t have the money. We don’t ask the landlords to forgive the rent, we ask the landlords to wait a little bit, and then make [an] agreement to the tenants pay little by little.”

Gonzalez said that the next time LA City Council discusses the moratorium, her organization will go to city hall and testify as to why the protections should remain in place.

Eric Eisenberg, a member of the board of the San Pedro Historic Waterfront Business Improvement District, owns several residential properties, with a total of about 100 tenants. He said he absolutely supports the end of the eviction moratorium.

“We have tenants that rented during COVID, fully qualified, fully employed, and once they occupied the apartments stopped paying rent, because they knew of the eviction moratorium that nothing could be done,” Eisenberg said.

Eisenberg said these tenants had never paid a full month’s rent, and only paid what was required to move in.

“We also know landlords where they’ve had multiple tenants in very small buildings stop paying rent for no particular reason,” Eisenberg

Tenant advocates call for it to be extended, while landlord advocates want it to end sooner

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Tenants and housing rights activists protest for a halting of rent payments and mortgage debt in Los Angeles on Oct. 1, 2020. Photo by Lucy Nicholson

Political Mudslinging

By James Preston Allen, Publisher

When Rick Caruso and Karen Bass started throwing mud at each other in their last debate for mayor of Los Angeles, I could just feel it coming. This is where the political horse race turns into mud wrestling — some people feel we deserve better and others just like to watch from ring side seats without getting splattered. The big takeaway from it all is that the University of Southern Califor nia is the epicenter of corruption. That corruption is perhaps more to the point of the mudslinging even if it’s not the main issue in the mayor’s race. After all, USC was allegedly where H.R. Haldeman, who was made infamous in the Watergate scandal many years ago, got his start crafting political dirty tricks in student gov ernment elections there.

The reputations of politicians have been in decline ever since President Richard Nixon re signed in disgrace (we should have been so lucky with No. 45).

So political mudslinging has become as ubiq uitous in politics as infotainment is to news. Is it all about ratings? One would hope that we could actually hear some real debate on the issues, but at least we are not being offered the QAnon ver sion of surrealism here in the Lost Empire of the Angels.

Frankly though, Caruso represents the monied class of LA and Karen Bass does not. Caruso is a wannabe Democrat and Bass is the real thing no matter how many TV ads the former shows us with him standing around making friends with

people of color.

Regardless, this election cycle is a curi ous one, but not because of what is being re ported in corporate media. The real contests are down ballot between the establishment Democrats and the progressives. Repub licans, not even moderate ones, are in the equation except for Caruso. It’s a division that’s been boiling up since Bernie Sanders (that Social Democrat) ran for president and nearly beat Hillary Clinton in this county. This is unusual because it places the Dem ocratic Party in a less than a liberal stance in a majority democratic city and in a more conservative position than the progressive upstarts challenging the status quo. And pro gressives are not your traditional “liberals.”

These include Council District 1 candi date Eunisses Hernandez, Council District 11 candidate Erin Darling, Council District

13 candidate Hugo Soto-Martinez, Faisal Gill for city attorney, Kenneth Mejia for city controller and of course Danielle Sandoval running against Tim McOsker in CD15. The LA power structure has been wedded to what some would call the Neoliberal model since the end of the Tom Bradley era — a city run by big monied interests of development, industry and finance. And the results have created a chasm between the rich and working class and working poor that resembles much of the rest of America for many of the same economic reasons — income inequality.

What is shocking here in the LALA Land of liberalism is that neoliberalism has failed to ad equately address the homeless crisis, port pol lution and infrastructure traffic congestion, as it has elsewhere, try as they may. And LA resi dents have noticed and are not impressed with the establishment. They know it’s time for a change. But now they are being asked to choose: more cops or less homeless people?

On the one hand the more rightwing leaning Dems like Joe Buscaino are clamoring for more enforcement on homeless encampments (some thing he’s been prone to for his entire time in of fice). But now in his waning days in office, he has succeeded in convincing the majority of the LA City Council to vote with him. This is a sad ending as Buckets Buscaino has never proved that chasing the homeless around the block has ever worked.

Now Buckets has an heir-apparent in Tim McOsker, who he has recently endorsed against the progressive outsider, Danielle Sandoval. Let the mudslinging begin.

Last week, David Zahnizer at the LA Times, wrote a scathing piece accusing Sandoval of wage theft from a restaurant she ran and closed some eight years ago. Just how did Zahnizer dis cover this? He didn’t say, but more likely than not by some opposition research dropped off by a McOsker operative. You have to ask yourself, how is it that a wage claim from that long ago wasn’t resolved by the Labor Board before now? I’m curious and skeptical as it appears to have only recently been filed.

I got a call from someone during the primary asking about one of the other candidates — the guy wouldn’t say who he was working for but …

So now Sandoval has been slandered in the press, the same one that endorsed her by the way,

and the response is her campaign revealing McO sker’s lobbying business at the TraPac terminal that eliminated hundreds of union jobs with au tomation. This is all about the union votes. He denies this of course, but there is documentation and, in all fairness, we’ve let her explain her case in these pages because it’ll take weeks before the LA Times does a follow up.

Let’s get to the point though. This isn’t about the mud. This is about power and which direc tion the future of Los Angeles and CD15 is head ed. From the multi-million-dollar port terminals, the billions in international trade and its largest

source of air pollution — the Port of Los Ange les, which is the epicenter of economic and envi ronmental injustice for the entire city. It’s worse than Venice; worse than Echo Park or East LA. Who is going to fix this?

Before writing this column today, I got a phone call from one of McOsker’s “friends,” a guy who never calls me, asking if I was switch ing my endorsement of Sandoval after the Times’ story ran. I really didn’t have time to explain why my answer was “NO,” but I guess he’ll just have to read it here.

Political Attacks, Social Media

Trolls and a Dishonest Opponent

By Danielle Sandoval, Candidate for CD15

I have always been an advocate for the labor justice movement. I, too, have been a victim of unfair employment practices and wage discrimi nation as a young woman working in the hos pitality industry. Last week, Los Angeles Times published an article alleging that I had not paid some employees who worked at my restaurant, Caliente Cantina Lounge, eight years ago. Here are the non-embellished and non-sensationalized facts of the case:

• I am not actually named in the claim.

• I did receive an email on Aug. 5 of this year (2022) regarding the alleged wage claim against the dissolved LLC where I was for merly a partner back in 2014.

• I forwarded the email to an attorney to han dle the claim.

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What is troubling is that the writer chose to quote McOsker criticizing my commitment to labor justice as if his opinion had anything to do with the case. If the writer really wanted to com pare us on labor issues or understand McOsker’s “commitment” to labor, he would have asked McOsker about his lobbying for Trapac to bring automation to its terminals in 2016. Here are the non-embellished and non-sensationalized facts of that case, verified and undisputed:

Tim McOsker was a paid lobbyist for Trapac.

Trapac has been the biggest promoter of auto mation for eliminating ILWU jobs at the terminal for the past 20 years. McOsker was paid during the time that Trapac was pushing for $500 mil lion in port automation funding. McOsker filed

[See Dishonest, p. 7]

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Candidate Forum

Remember Carson, California? Thanks to redistricting, it’s been cut into two districts. On Oct. 6, Cal State University, Dominguez Hills will host the new 69th District candidates, Al Austin and Josh Lowenthal. CA-44th Congressional District Rep. Nannette Barragán will discuss her plan to bring Eco Power to the Port of Los Angeles. Finally, there is the battle for the Los Angeles Sheriffs Department with candidates Alex Villanueva and Robert Luna taking part.

The Los Angeles murder rate is at a 15-year high. One third of the deaths are Black. There are over 46,000 homeless people in Los Angeles County and yet the funding for the Sheriffs Department has been lowered and the state wants to close two prisons. CSUDH is planning a

conversation on the future that gives San Pedro Bay residents an opportunity to ask the questions that matter to them, before they cast their ballots on Nov. 8.

University Heights Homeowners Association President, Charlotte Brimmer will host while Director, School of Public Service & Justice, Clarence Agustus Martin, J.D., Ph.D. will moderate.

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Dishonest Opponent

an Ethics Department form stating he was paid by Trapac to lobby the port, the city coun cil and the mayor’s office for terminal modernization.

Last week in a Facebook posting, McOsker attempted to explain away his lobbying activities as helping TraPac with getting into compliance with existing air quality rules in 2016. And that he has never favored automation at the Port of Los Angeles.

Forget McOsker’s phony explanation about what his lob bying tasks were, just examine the facts. There’s only one con clusion to draw: McOsker lob bied for automation just like he stated on the lobbying disclo sure statement he filed seven years before he ever thought he would run for office.

To make it even clearer let me offer this: “I will donate $10,000 to the Harry Bridges Institute if McOsker can pass a lie detector test stating his com ments to ILWU Local 13 Presi dent Ramon Ponce De Leon were truthful.”

If McOsker is telling the truth, then he deserves your support and the Harry Bridges Institute will receive $10,000. Any honest person would gladly take that test and earn $10,000 for that worthy char ity. McOsker will not do it. He knows better than anyone he is a liar.

Here’s another fact the ILWU leadership should con sider before continuing to sup port McOsker: according to the Economic Roundtable Re port “Someone Else’s Ocean,” roughly 572 jobs have been

eliminated by automation and countless millions of dol lars lost in our local economy. What is worse than that is the $500 million in public money the port spent on automating Trapac’s terminal did nothing to speed up the terminal or in crease the velocity of the con tainers moving off the ships. Automation did nothing to increase the flow or efficiency of the supply chain. It only made foreign flagged shipping companies more profitable. The port should worry more about our community and the health of our children than the health of some shipping lines balance sheets. Thank Tim McOsker for his part in selling out the union and his neighbors while mak ing himself and MOL (Trapac’s parent company) a little richer.

I wish we could just debate issues. I have a plan for getting the homeless off the streets, bringing better policing, crime prevention and raising millions of dollars for local community benefits. McOsker lacks ideas or a real plan for the district. The next time you see him,ask him about his plan to raise funding for schools, afford able housing, elder care and other community benefits. He doesn’t want to debate. His en tire focus is to try to discredit me and misinform people about my support for the police, plans for the district or my ability to govern effectively. They are scared, they fear losing their power, influence and the ability to use public funds for private profit.

I hope to earn your vote on Nov. 8, 2022.

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Community Alert

City Seeks Input on Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan

The City of Long Beach De partment of Disaster Prepared ness and Emergency Commu nications is inviting residents to participate in the review of the city’s draft natural hazard mitigation plan. Residents can review the draft plan at, www. tinyurl.com/draft-plan and provide comments online at, https://tinyurl.com/publiccomment-input, or in-person at all Long Beach Public Library locations through Oct. 16.

To help residents navigate through the plan development process, review the draft plan and provide their feedback, the Department of Disaster Preparedness and Emer gency Communications has launched a new Hazard Miti gation webpage, www.tinyurl. com/2p8ft7yd, which includes informational content about the hazards identified in the plan, as well as links to both the full plan and the public survey.

Details: www.longbeach.gov/ disasterpreparedness

AQMD Releases Revised Draft Plan, Sets Public Hearings

The South Coast Air Qual ity Management District has released the Revised Draft 2022 Air Quality Management Plan or AQMP and invites you to participate in regional pub lic hearings. Multiple meetings are scheduled to provide more opportunities for stakeholders to discuss the Revised Draft 2022 AQMP.

Follow the instructions below to join the meetings remotely and by telephone: https://scaqmd.zoom. us/j/97319116794

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LB Candidates Collide

is brought up because it sits at the core of what di vides the two candidates’ policies. The race itself is remarkably quiet at present. In the primary it began with the most crowded field, and with no clear in cumbent, it was quite hard to get the airtime needed to truly stand out in the field. This is reflected in the primary’s result where margins were quite tight, with no candidate pulling more than 5 points ahead or below their nearest competitors, and Kailee Ca ruso only beating out third place Nima Novin by less than 100 votes.

With only Caruso and Kristina Duggan remain ing, the contrast between the two becomes more evident, with the two breaking from each other quite hard along political rifts all too common in urban LA county politics. Duggan falls incredibly neatly into the tradition of the reactionary / conser vative Democrat, with policy brethren in the likes of LA mayoral candidate Rick Caruso and City Councilman Joe Buscaino. Contrasting this is Long Beach’s Kailee Caruso, who unlike Brentwood’s Rick, also fits quite comfortably into a niche, this time along the progressive strain.

In policy terms she falls somewhere between the likes of LA mayoral candidate Karen Bass and LA city controller candidate Kenneth Mejia, skew ing moderate reformist. The big break between the two is what seems to be the big three of politics in the county: housing costs, unhoused neighbors and the power and money we collectively allocate to the police. Caruso wants to increase housing supply and potentially legislate against rent gouging, she basi cally tows the current line on unhoused people, push ing for basic shelter and transitional living, not really

shaking the boat much there, however on police she is slightly novel, advocating for the idea of tackling the sources of crime, such as housing, health, and job stability, rather than pumping even more money into police departments.

Where Caruso is fairly bog standard, Dug gan plays the part of a subtle hardliner, dress ing up hard positions behind modest language. The best example of this is her stance on the city building more housing. Duggan has argued for a process that would grant local businesses, neigh borhood character and oversight committees an active role, as she said in her interview with the Long Beach Post. Such oversight groups in wealthier neighborhoods are known for their willingness to block any new construction.

Local business does seem to sit at the heart of her campaign, to the point where it’s one of only three policy pillars on her website, the oth ers being policing and the unhoused. As the selftitled owner of such businesses, it’s not hard to imagine why she centers around small business advocacy.

On the unhoused she is much the same as Caruso, but more upfront in the call to enforce anti-camping rules, not really expounding on where they should go instead. As for the police she says the city must maximize its tight budget, but that in the long term their budget and num ber of officers needs to be increased.

If these two were running in a different dis trict, under different conditions, it would be fair ly safe to call Kailee Caruso the favored candi date. However, looking at District three, the high

wealth and whiteness of it hint at a voting pattern more in line with the conservative Democrats of places like the valley, or indeed the western most tip of San Pedro into Palos Verdes. This combined with the relatively low intensity campaigning and the packed primary, means that no candidate ap pears a clear favorite now.

District five and its neighborhoods are largely a product of the ’20s to ’50s era of subdivisions, stereotypical suburbia in many ways, but with the large Long Beach Airport straddled neatly in between them all. Neighborhoods of five in clude California Heights, Bixby Knolls, South of Conant, Plaza, Rancho Estates, Lakewood Village, Los Cerritos, Carson Park and tiny Old Lakewood City. Five is an upper middle income neighbor hood, with wealth around $70,000 to $100,000 as its yearly average. While District five is majority white, it is not uniformly so across all neighbor hoods in District five. The district becomes more racially and ethnically diverse from the airport to California Heights, Bixby Knolls, and Los Cerri tos. To understand the politics and voting behavior of a place, it is always necessary to first understand who lives in place, and moreover who doesn’t.

Running in district five, fresh from the pri maries, are Ian Patton and Megan Kerr, neither of whom are incumbents, but each with a history in the district. The primaries were quite skewed, with Kerr almost winning outright with 48% of the vote, and Patton coming in 18 points below at 30%. An 18 point difference would be considered a devastating loss in any general election. Patton is a landlord and political consultant living in the district, while Kerr has served on the Long Beach School District board twice and sits on the boards of the Los Cerritos Historic site and the California Conference for Equality and Justice.

Patton seems to be banking heavily on the sub urban mindset, quite a bit of his policy surrounds empowering small business, police and anyone seeking to stop an increase in housing density or hold landlords engaging in rent price gouging ac countable. He also prides himself on trying to cut back on city corruption. However, with his policies, it’s most likely that the corruption, if present, simply moves from public to private organizations. On un housed neighbors his approach is a mix of carceral police-centered policy, obvious reforms that are needed, and a complete refusal for the construction of desperately needed social housing.

Kerr takes the more liberal approach, vaguer, but more centered on the most important step,

making sure there is a home. This being shel ter-focused policy, rather than again the long denial of very needed social housing, focusing on getting the unhoused an income via jobs training, noble enough, but failing to ask the question of why one needs an income in order to access a home, which is a basic need. Still Kerr’s approach centers around the unhoused rather than law enforcement, an act that sets her apart from far too many politicians in LA county. Patton’s policy on economics is en tirely focused on the small business owner, ignoring the worker, Kerr’s, to contrast, is only mostly centered on the business owner.

While district five is a relatively new district, it’s still old U.S. suburbia. With an 18-point difference in the primary, it would be shocking if Kerr did not win. I could not imagine a politician who more embodies the liberal milquetoast policy of a LA County suburb, and while Patton certainly represents a long tradition of the more carceral, reaction ary suburbanite, ultimately he seems doomed to obscurity.

The northernmost district, District nine, is fascinating. It’s a largely low and middle income neighborhood with a diverse makeup, largely Latino and African American. The district has no incumbent, with former coun cilman of nine, Rex Richardson and former District three’s Susan Price off to a closely contested mayoral race. The void left here creates, while not the most even, one of the interesting races in the city council. Here you have two incredibly well-educated, communi ty-oriented and progressive women going toe to toe. Ideologically speaking, Ginny Gon zales and Joni Ricks-Oddie are the two most similar candidates running against one an other of the races mentioned. What then sepa rates these two is how said progressive vision is implemented and how the two candidates present themselves to the public.

Gonzales is very personable, she speaks no different than a random person at a diner or bus stop would. It gives her interviews and policy a very down-to-earth, concerned citi zen feel, very refreshing to those who listen to politicians on the regular. She centers con versation on policy around family, and her own experience, which while relatable does lead to her policy proposals being imprecise.

Long Beach mayoral candidates, from left to right, top row: Suzie Price, Rex Richardson, Deb Mozer; bottom row, left to right: Raul Cedillo, Joshua Rodriguez and Franklin I. Sims are running to replace Mayor Robert Garcia, who is running for Congress. File photos

The Habits Excited About New Music and New Era

By Melina Paris, Assistant Editor

The Habits are feeling the love from their hometown and it’s a great thing.

The band made up of singer/guitarist Wolf Bradley, 29 and drummer Andrew Macatrao, 30 has been riding high with a newly released song Don’t Need A Hero, an EP to come and a South-West U.S. tour through California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona.

If that’s not enough, the engaging duo has been filling up its calendar with plenty of noteworthy local gigs — San Pedro Music Festival and the Fortnight Concert series, held in the tunnels of the historic Leary Gun Battery at Angels Gate Cultural Center — to keep it performing its own brand of endearing alternative-pop. That tour, Bradley said, was great because the people in all the cities they visited knew all the songs they played and people seemed excited to be out at live shows again.

Bradley and Macatrao met at the San Pedro Ballet School, which Bradley’s parents own. Dancing since he was 3-years-old, Bradley said dance has always been a huge part of his life — he often forgets that other people don’t dance. He recounted how his father used to teach dance at San Pedro High School. He explained a bunch of guys from the school decided they wanted to take ballet and all of a sudden “a lot of guys” were in the school. He and Macatrao met and became friends slowly. At first they were “ballet rivals’’ because they were the closest in age but they became friends when they discovered they both liked music. Eventually they started writing songs together.

Bradley recently told Random Lengths News it had been a few years since it performed in San Pedro, but the band is feeling lots of support from its hometown. But this is no time to rest. He discussed what’s coming up next for The Habits, as they embark on their “new era.”

“In anything, whenever you plan things, it never goes as you planned — as much as you would want it to,” said Bradley.

The duo aimed to release its EP this year. But as 2022 progresses, Bradley said things tend to get lost in the ether of everything during the holidays. Very soon, The Habits will roll out new music. They recently released Don’t Need A Hero, a song cowritten with Dave Rublin, from American Authors band, whom Bradley met over Zoom during the pandemic. American Authors formed in 2006 at Berklee College of Music in Boston. It’s clear why Bradley, who seems to be an actor at heart, as well, and Rublin made a good connection; the New Yorkbased pop-rock outfit describes its craft saying “We write stories and read them through music.”

“Writing during the pandemic was interesting,” said Bradley. “I’m used to writing songs, whether it’s for The Habits or for others because I’m a songwriter. I write for other people all the time. I used to do that three or four times a week. Then the world shut down.”

Once people realized the shutdown was going to last for a while and people couldn’t be in the same room together, Bradley said everyone started doing their writing sessions on Zoom.

“It’s awkward, trying to meet somebody and then you’re trying to be vulnerable with this person,” he said. “You’re writing a song and having to be very open about what’s going on in your life.”

To break the ice, Bradley had a joke he’d tell in these sessions, “let’s take the worst thing that’s ever happened to you and let’s make it catchy, tell everybody and see if you can make a living doing that.

“It’s so much weirder to do that over Zoom,” he said. “There’s a delay, or it cuts out and then you’re asking, ‘did you hear that?’”

The Habits stayed busy and finished a five-song EP called What’s The Worst That Could Happen — one day before the quarantine started. They were excited, and they were getting lots of radio play. Then the universe answered.

“Everything was going great and then the world ended,” Bradley said. “We waited a while, [and] we realized this [pandemic] wasn’t going away, so we just released the EP. It turned out great. It was the most successful [one] we released.”

Because of that Bradley started doing more work on Zoom and their music circle grew. Through that he met Rublin. They emailed and talked on the phone and just became friends first. Later when they had a Zoom session together

Bradley said it was actually very easy. They wrote all the chords and verses on a song in less than an hour. They continued working together. Aside from that, Bradley didn’t do many other Zoom sessions.

“I quickly realized this is not for me,” he said.

“We didn’t play shows for a long time. We wrote songs [but] we couldn’t play them live. We had a show at the Whiskey but then it got canceled because the headliner we were opening for got COVID. That was my year last year.”

A New Era

Bradley noted it may be an oldschool way of thinking but when artists and bands put out new EPs or albums, they call them eras. This certain sound he explained was the tone, the theme and esthetic for this “era.” When they put out the next one, they’ve moved on.

“Our last EP did really well for us but we’re ready to move on to this next era,” Bradley said. “It’s the next step for our band. I’m excited about that.

Don’t Need A Hero was kind of an introduction to that — a year ahead of its time almost.”

In the last few months The Habits have found their “intro to start releasing music again.” They’ve released another great single (Hero), a timely number in this period of taking stock and emerging anew — it celebrates self-assuredness. They created an adorable, cathartic video for it.

January will mark the big roll-out for The Habits new music. The five-song EP is called I Think I’m Fine But I Don’t Know. They’ll release a single each month along with a release show for each of the singles, and eventually the entire EP.

Bradley noted the venues that they choose to play in are very personal

to them. One of those venues will be in San Pedro. He said this usually doesn’t happen, but everything that he’s been planning to do of late has gone just as he hoped. He’s very excited to release this project.

“[The title] is very apropos to my whole existence and I’m very excited about it,” Bradley said. “It’s very much grappling with what’s going on for everybody. It’s been great though, because even though we haven’t been able to release as much music as we’d like to, we’ve been playing so many shows. That’s good to get back to. Now we can play the songs we released during the pandemic and we can play them for audiences.”

Details: thehabitsband. com and www. instagram.com/ habitstheband

Wolf Bradley and Andrew Macatrao, seated, of The Habits, a band with roots in San Pedro. Photo by Arturo Garcia-Ayala

t wasn’t love at first bite, but I finally warmed up to the shishito pepper.

The name is an abbreviation of shishitogarashi, which is Japanese for “the tip of this pepper looks like a lion’s face.” This description is as fanciful as looking for faces in clouds, but you don’t need to imagine a lion in order to appreciate the shishito.

Shishitos are finger-length, thin-skinned, wrinkled, and usually mild, but every now and then you’ll get a hot one, which keeps things exciting. My introduction to this pepper came at the farmers market in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where growers bill them as “frying chiles.”

This distinction is important because roasted green chile is a sacred autumn tradition in New Mexico, where chile roasters are everywhere, in seemingly every parking lot and empty space. These propane-heated rotating steel mesh cages resemble giant hamster wheels. As the hot roaster spins, the chiles inside are tossed and cooked until they are collapsed and blistered, releasing their intoxicating fragrance into the air. Locals call it New Mexican aromatherapy. It makes everybody within smelling distance happy and hungry.

Roasted green chile is arguably the backbone of New Mexican cuisine, thanks to a simple and delicious formula: add green chile to food, and add the phrase “green chile” to what you call it. Thus, a cheeseburger becomes a green chile cheeseburger. Scrambled eggs become green chile scrambled eggs. Enchiladas become green chile enchiladas.

At the Santa Fe farmers market, shishito growers have skillets in their stalls which they use to demonstrate the shishito’s fryability. They fry their shishitos in a few drops of oil, and put them on plates for customers to sample. I was one such sampler, and I was not impressed. The frying thing seemed like a gimmick, and didn’t fill the air with as much fragrance as traditional New Mexican chile varieties like Big Jim, Sandia and Numex. It took a farmer in Montana, where I now live, to turn this perception upside down. And all he had to do was let the shishitos ripen.

Any pepper will eventually turn red if you leave it long enough, and my farmer friend waits until his shishito crop resembles a Christmas sweater before bringing his red and green mix to market. The red shishitos add a pleasing sweetness to the mix, making it more complex. Finally, after years of denial, I hopped aboard the shishito bandwagon.

Back in Santa Fe, the lower heat of the shishito was a turn-off, but now that

Overdue Praise for the Shishito

By Ari LeVaux, Flash in the Pan Columnist

soybeans, which makes for a sweeter paste into which I will liberally dip my spoon and snack on while making this dish. And while shishitos are sold as frying chiles in New Mexico, I prefer my shishitos broiled.

Lemon and Misoglazed Shishitos with Salmon

Combining elements of East and Southwest, this transcontinental recipe is so delicious that you won’t know where you are. Serves two.

1 pound salmon filet, preferably cut from the thick end

1 pound fresh shishito peppers, washed and dried

¼ cup white miso paste

The juice of one lemon

½ teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon butter

3 tablespoons sesame seeds

Soy sauce, to taste

Jasmine rice

Turn the oven to broil. Position an oven rack about seven inches below the element or flame.

Combine 2 tablespoons lemon juice and the miso, and stir together until completely mixed.

Sprinkle the fish with salt. Let sit for 15 minutes, then rinse it with the remaining lemon juice. Smear the fish with half of the lemon miso mixture. Let it sit in the fridge until it’s time to cook it.

Rinse the shishitos and put them on a baking pan. Roast them under the broiler, tossing and stirring often, until they are blistered on all sides – about 12 minutes. Remove from the oven to cool. (You can roast any chile this way, including New Mexico-style, Anaheim, poblano, jalapeño, etc.)

I’m older and have less to prove, I don’t mind milder chiles, because I can eat more of them. And without being surrounded by chile roasters on every corner as one is in New Mexico, I’ve noticed that blistered shishitos actually smell pretty good. With the help of my friend’s red and green shishitos, I’ve been converting my burgers, eggs, soups and pretty much everything else within reach into New Mexican-style cuisine.

Here is a recipe for lemon miso shishitos that brings us full circle to the pepper’s Japanese

ARTS Briefs

By Melina Paris, Assistant Editor

Random Lengths News has gathered a wide array of local events coming right up, from Native teachings and traditions, to cultural celebrations and jazz festivals. There’s a lot to choose from in the Harbor Area during October.

Sixteenth Many Winters Gathering Of Elders

The Many Winters Gathering of Elders or

roots. It’s based on the blistered shishitos on the menu at the acclaimed Nobu restaurants. I’ve added salmon, to make it a complete meal rather than an appetizer, and because the lemon miso glaze is a perfect sauce for salmon. I serve the shishitos and salmon with jasmine rice rather than Japanese rice because jasmine rice adds a lovely fragrance that dances elegantly with the aroma of the shishito.

This recipe employs white miso, which I greatly prefer to the darker varieties. White Miso contains rice fermented with the usual

MWGOE happens Oct. 6 through Oct. 9, at Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, on GabrielinoTongva territory.

The MWGOE is a four-day gathering where Native/Indigenous elders and knowledge-keepers from across the country gather to share teachings through oral tradition with the community. The gathering also hosts various Native ceremonies that take place throughout the four days. The event is family-friendly, open to the public and held in partnership with AGCC.

Elders from local tribes including GabrielinoTongva, Acjachemen, Fernandeño Tataviam, Chumash and other California tribes have attended

Put half of the butter on the salmon and place the fish in an oven pan under the broiler, skin-side down, and cook until browned on top and solid to the touch – about ten minutes. Remove and let cool.

Toss the shishitos with the remaining lemon/miso paste and the remaining halftablespoon of butter.

Plate the shishitos and salmon with rice, garnish with the sesame seeds and a lemon wedge, and serve with soy sauce.

in the past and will join in October. Tribal elders from other regions (Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Montana, South Dakota and others) are expected, as well. The gathering takes place under an arbor which serves as the traditional place of teaching and learning – where elders pass on knowledge to the younger generation, which is part of intergenerational healing from historical trauma.

The first MWGOE was held on Oct. 12, 1992, in response to the false narrative represented by the quincentennial celebrations of Christopher Columbus’ “discovery of America.” Today, the Gathering continues to be an important occasion for the Native/Indigenous community, to reconnect to and practice ceremony, and to celebrate 530 years of spiritual survival. It also allows access for the general public to learn and acknowledge the traditional knowledge and values that have supported and sustained Native lifeways.

During the 16th Many Winters Gathering of Elders, no alcohol, drugs, cameras, pictures, video or other recording equipment are allowed; the MWGOE Organizing Committee requests that attendees respect and observe ceremonial protocol.

Time: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Oct. 6 through Oct. 9

Lemon and miso-glazed shishitos with salmon. Photo by Ari LeVaux

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Cost: Free

Details: 562-265-8423; linktr.ee/mwgoe

Venue: Angels Gate Cultural Center, 3601 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro

Festival of Books for Children

Kick off Filipino American History Month and join the first-ever Festival of Books for Children at the Philippine Expressions Bookshop. The event

kickstarts the celebration of Filipino-American History Month. This is a special day because Marylaine Viernes will not only be the master of ceremonies, but also one of the featured children’s book authors. Enjoy many fun activities and meet other brilliant Filipino American writers.

Time: 1 to 6 p.m., Oct. 4

Cost: Free Details: http://www.philippinebookshop.com/

Venue: Philippine Expressions Bookshop, 479 W. 6th St., Ste. 105 San Pedro

Filipino American History Month Kick-Off

The Filipino American History Month kick-

off celebration in Carson will showcase amazing talents and performing artists in music, creative arts, and other varied forms of entertainment from the Filipino American community.

Headlining this year’s event are the Filharmonic and Jay R. Filharmonic is an LA-based acapella group featured on NBC’s musical competition The Sing-Off and featured in viral sensation Pitch Perfect 2. Jay R is a Filipino American singer, songwriter, record producer, actor and model. In 2008, he released a cover album, Soul in Love, his highest-rated and biggest-selling album. He made his big screen debut in the 2004 feature film Happy Together, and later released his self-titled

second album in 2005.

Other performers also include The Voice Philippines’ grand finalist Janice Javier, comedians Eric Escobar and Rex Navarrete, performer and host Erik Escobar, singers and songwriters Jules Aurora, Chris Chatman and Ardyanna Ducusin. The event will be hosted by Michael Palma and ABC7 Eyewitness News health specialist Denise Dador.

Time: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Oct. 2

Cost: Free

Details: Parks and Recreation at 310-847-3570

Venue: Dignity Health Sports Park, 18400 Avalon Blvd., Carson

Gallery 478

Venue: Gallery 478, 478 W. 7th St., San Pedro.

Palos Verdes Art Center

GIFTED: COLLECTING THE ART OF CALIFORNIA AT GARDENA HIGH SCHOOL, 1919-1956

Since the mid-1950s, the collection has been in storage and unavail able for viewing by the public. This presentation of GIFTED: Collecting the Art of California at Gardena High School, 1919- 1956 is the first for Los Angeles County, where Gardena High School is located. The exhibition runs through Nov. 12.

Details: 310-541-2479; www.pvartcenter.org

Venue: Palos Verdes Art Center / Beverly G. Alpay Center for Arts Education, 5504 Crestridge Road, Rancho Palos Verdes

Real People, Real News, Really Effective

The exhibition of 50 paintings chronicle the history of Gardena High School’s ambitious endeavor — one driven by educational rather than economic values. From 1919 to 1956, students in the senior class selected, purchased and donated some 72 works of art to the high school as class gifts.

Maurice Braun, California Hills, 1924, oil on canvas. Gift from the Class of Summer 1929

PHOTOS BY ARNÉE AND RAY CAROFANO

Ray Carofano’s L.A. River #33, 2017 from his book, Riverrun, a suite of painterly photographs capturing seldom seen images of the Los Angeles River

MUSIC Sept. 29

John Papadakis

Papadakis will perform at the Catalina Jazz Club for his CD re lease of Being By The Sea. Dinner or two-drink minimum is required in addition to the tickets, plus a $0.49 music royalty fee per pa tron.

Time: 8:30 p.m., Sept. 29

Cost: $35 Details: http://www.catalina jazzclub.com/

Venue: Catalina Jazz Club, 6725 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood Oct. 1

Which One’s Pink?

The critically acclaimed Pink Floyd tribute band has performed hundreds of shows through out the U.S. and won several awards, including the Surrogate Bands Pink Floyd Cover Con test. Which One’s Pink? focuses exclusively on recreating the sur realistic sound and psychedelic atmosphere associated with Pink Floyd.

Time: 8 p.m., Oct. 1

Cost: $27.50 and up

Details: https://grandvision.org/ event/which-ones-pinkpink-floydtribute-band/

Venue: Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro

Carson Jazz Festival

Grammy-Award nominee saxo phonist and bass player Gerald Albright will headline for Carson’s end-of-summer jazz festival. Other performers include Julian Vaughn, saxophonist Donald Hayes, Cal State University Dominguez Hills Jazz Band and former lead singer of the Gap Band, Gavyn Rhone. The festival will also feature a wide variety of food, crafts and display booths, a children’s play area and stage activities.

Time: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Oct. 1

Cost: Free Details: Parks and Recreation 310-847-3570.

Venue: Anderson Park, 19101 S. Wilmington Ave., Carson

Oct. 2

The Pixies Record Signing

The iconic Pixies will be com ing to Fingerprints to sign cop ies of their new album, Dog gerel, a mature yet visceral record of gruesome folk, ball room pop and brutal rock. Pre order or purchase the limited edition yellow LP or the deluxe CD and that will get you a spot on the RSVP guestlist.

Time: 3 p.m., Oct. 2

Cost: Free Details: www.fingerprints music.com

Venue: Fingerprints Music, 420 E. 4th St., Long Beach

Oct. 6

Live Jazz and R&B

On First Thursday, Feed and Be Fed Farm will have live en tertainment in the garden. Sit, have some popcorn, enjoy the music in the garden.

Time: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Oct. 6

Cost: Free

Details: feedandbefed.org

Venue: Feed and Be Fed Farm, 429 W. 6th St., San Pedro

Oct. 9

Camerata Peace Project VI

Long Beach Camerata Sing ers will begin its season with an examination of how we co-exist, with a focus on the LGBTQIA+ community. The concert will be anchored by excerpts from Considering Matthew Shepard, as well as other pieces that reflect both

the pain and joy of learning to live in our diverse community.

Time: 4:30 p.m., Oct. 9

Cost: $45 to $70

Details: https://tinyurl. com/3c9c952e

Venue: Beverly O’Neill Theater, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach

THEATER Sept. 29

Holmes and Watson

Following Sherlock Holmes’ death at Reichenbach Falls three years before, Dr. John Watson has been called on to disprove the many charlatans who’ve come forward claiming to be Holmes. When he receives a news clipping reporting that a remote mental asylum has recently admitted three men, each claiming to be Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson travels to the asylum to investigate.

Time: 8 p.m. Friday, and Satur day and 2 p.m. Sunday Sept. 29 to Oct. 22

Cost: $14 to $20

Details: 562-494-1014; www.lbplayhouse.org

Venue: Long Beach Playhouse, 5021 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach

Little Fish Theatre

Charlotte, an aging but beautiful poet living in a small villa in the South of France, has decided to give away her young lover, Cab. Her goddaughter Georgeanne thinks Charlotte has fallen in love with a local fisherman while her dashing friend, Randall, believes she is finally ready to accept his proposal.

Time: 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, through Oct. 9 Cost: $20 to $30

Details: https://tinyurl.com/lastdance

Venue: Little Fish Theatre, 777 S. Centre St., San Pedro

Oct. 2

LB Symphony RuMBa Founda tion Family Concert

The family concert returns with Symphony Under the Sea. Fami lies are encouraged to come dressed in costume to enjoy an afternoon filled with activities and a 45-minute musical performance conducted by Long Beach Sym phony music director Eckart Preu. Activities will be held on the plaza before and after the concert. Long Beach Transit is providing free, round-trip transportation from the Michelle Obama Library on a firstcome-first-served basis.

Time: 3 p.m., Oct. 2 Cost: $20 and up

Details: www.LongBeachSym phony.org; 562-436-3203

Venue: Terrace Theater, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach

Oct. 7

The Opening Of Panndora’s Box

The Sweet 16th Year of New Plays is a three-day festival designed for the enhancement of greatly talent ed playwrights yet to achieve star dom. Tickets available at the door. Reservations aren’t required, but proof of vaccination and masks are.

Time: 1, 4 and 8 p.m. Oct. 7 through Oct. 9

Cost: Suggested donation: $10 per play or $25 for entire festival

Details: www.panndoraproduc tions.com for the schedule of per formances

Venue: The Garage Theatre: 251 E. 7th St., Long Beach

Oct. 14

Dear Harvey Dear Harvey is a documentarystyle play about the impact and legacy of Harvey Milk, California’s first openly gay elected official and groundbreaking activist, told through a series of speeches, his

torical documents and verbatim interviews with the people who knew him. Spoken word combines with multimedia and music as an ensemble cast moves in and out of the identities of real-world fig ures whose lives were forever altered by Milk’s too-short career. Contains adult language and themes.

Time: 8 p.m. Oct. 14, 15, 21, 22 and 3 p.m. Oct. 16

Cost: $10 to $15

Details: www.elcaminotickets.uni versitytickets.com/w/ Venue: El Camino College, Cam pus Theatre, 16007 Crenshaw Blvd. Torrance

ART

Sept. 29

Inspired By The Long Beach Creative Group presents Inspired By, a new juried group show of small works. Local artists Cory Bilicko, Ellen Butler and Carlos Cordero juried the ex hibition, reviewing 242 pieces and selecting 83 works by 54 artists.

Time: 1 to 4 p.m. Fridays through Sundays, Sept. 24 to Oct. 22

Cost: Free

Details: www.longbeachcre ativegroup.com

Venue: The Roderick Eli Briggs Memorial Gallery, 2221 E. Broad way, Long Beach

At Full Volume II: Joyce Weiss in Brilliant Color

At Full Volume II features a selec tion of paintings by Joyce Weiss, late Angels Gate Studio artist. Weiss’ brilliant use of color com bined with gestural forms at large scale created bold visions on can vas. The exhibition runs through Oct. 1.

Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday to Saturday

Cost: Free

Details: https://angelsgateart.org/ gallery/joyce-weiss-at-full-volumeii/

Venue: Angels Gate Cultural Cen ter, 3601 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro

Hurry Slowly Hurry Slowly traces the museum’s growth around steadfast themes, echoes shifting influences that have driven their evolution, and embraces progressive notions of how museums might grow, pre viewing a more inclusive future. This exhibition recognizes the im portant work of founding director Constance W. Glenn, who laid the foundation for collecting practices in the 1970s and early 1980s. The exhibition runs through Dec. 22.

Time: 12 to 5 p.m., Tuesdays through Thursdays

Cost: Free

Details: 562-985-4111; https://tinyurl.com/hurry-slowly Venue: CCKCAM, 1250 Bellflow er Blvd., Long Beach

Miyoshi Barosh: The End Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Con temporary Art Museum presents five works by the late artist Miyo shi Barosh in a concise exhibition called The End. Created shortly after the artist’s 2016 diagnosis

with uterine cancer, The End is an exhibition that contemplates ex pression during the most profound conclusion one can consider: the end of one’s own life. The exhibi tion runs through Dec. 22.

Time: 12 to 5 p.m., Tuesdays through Thursdays

Cost: Free Details: 562-985-5761; https://tinyurl.com/Miyoshi-Barosh

Venue: CCKCAM, 1250 Bellflow er Blvd., Long Beach

Brush of Giftedness

Heidi Dong, a young woman with autism, has brushed her gifted ness into 18 interpretations of famous artwork. Fifteen of her illustrations represent former artists, including Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Vincent van Gogh and Andy Warhol. Two replicate present-day artists Mark Bradford and Romero Britto, plus one of her own works.

Time: Monday to Thursday , 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Sept. 19 to Oct. 17

Cost: Free Details: 310-377-9584; artinourlibrary@pvld.org

Venue: Peninsula Center Library, Foyer Exhibit Area, 701 Silver Spur Rd., Rolling Hills Estates

Texture: A Redondo Beach Art Group Exhibition

The way something feels to physi cal touch comes immediately to mind when thinking of texture, but while some artists might invite people to touch their works, most use special techniques to show vi sually how something might feel.

Time: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday now through Oct. 24

Cost: Free Details: https://pvld.org/artinourli brary/calendar

Venue: Malaga Cove Library Gal lery, 2400 Vía Campesina, Palos Verdes Estates

Oct. 9

Culture TALKS!

San Pedro Waterfront Arts District re-launches its Arts Appreciation series Oct. 9, presenting distin guished lecturer, Gregorio Luke, in a talk about Pablo Neruda: Poet of Love and the Sea.

Time: 1 p.m., Oct. 9

Cost: $8 to $16

Details: In-person and livestream tickets, https://tinyurl.com/culturetalks

Venue: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, 3720 Stephen M. White Dr., San Pedro

FILM

Oct.15

California’s Watershed Healing

Free screening of a documentary film by Jim Thebault on the critical and global importance of the Cali fornia watershed, ways to protect it and replenish it. The screening will be followed by a panel discus sion by representatives from local water agencies on ways to protect our own water sources into the

future.

Time: 4 p.m., Oct. 15

Cost: Free

Venue: The Warner Grand The atre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro

LITERATURE

Oct. 1

Festival of Books for Children

Kick off Filipino American History Month and join the first-ever Fes tival of Books for Children at the Philippine Expressions Bookshop. The event kickstarts the celebra tion of Filipino-American History Month. Marylaine Viernes will not only be the master of ceremonies, but also one of the featured chil dren’s book authors.

Time: 1 to 6 p.m., Oct. 4

Cost: Free Details: http://www.philippine bookshop.com/ Venue: Philippine Expressions Bookshop, 479 W. 6th St., Suite 105, San Pedro

COMMUNITY

Oct. 1

AGAPE Family Health Festival 2022

The Family Health Festival’s mis sion is to promote health aware ness by collaborating with local health and wellness providers and specialists, and to motivate attendees to make positive health behavior changes in their lives.

Featured activities include: free screenings, demonstrations and dedicated women, men, children, senior and info pavilions, sur rounded by music and healthy food vendors.

Time: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Oct. 1

Cost: Free Details: https://tinyurl.com/Mi chelle-Obama-library

Venue: Michelle Obama Library, 5870 Atlantic Ave., Long Beach

ArtLab Marine Science and Art Workshop

Join the Marine Mammal Educa tion Team and Angels Gate Art ist Beth Elliott for an afternoon of learning and artmaking in person. The afternoon will begin with an overview of the Marine Mammal Care Center and the patients they treat, followed by a cyanotype workshop led by Angels Gate Stu dio Artist, Beth Elliott. Supplies will be provided. The event will begin promptly at 1 p.m. at the Marine Mammal Care Center.

Time: 1 to 3 p.m., Oct. 1

Cost: Free

Details: https://tinyurl. com/3tyacp84

Venue: Marine Mammal Care Center, 3601 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro

Oct. 2

Filipino American History Month

Filipino American History Month kick-off celebration in Carson will showcase amazing talents and performing artists in music, cre ative arts, and other varied forms of entertainment from the Filipino American community.

Time: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Oct. 2

Cost: Free

Details: Parks and Recreation at 310-847-3570

Venue: Dignity Health Sports Park, 18400 Avalon Blvd., Carson

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church’s Annual Blessing of the Animals Bring your animal loved ones to receive a special blessing.

Time: 4 p.m., Oct. 2

Cost: Free Details: 310-831-2361

Venue: St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 1648 W. 9th St., San Pe dro

Oct. 6

Many Winters Gathering of Elders

A four-day ceremonial event, led by the local indigenous communi ty, during which Native elders from various tribes share their living knowledge, daily and generational struggles to inspire a healthier fu ture for Native people.

Time: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Oct. 6 to 9

Cost: Free

Details: https://tinyurl.com/manywinter

Venue: Angels Gate Cultural Cen ter, 3601 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro on Gabrielino-Tongva territory

Oct. 8

Blue Hour 3: The Warehouse AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles will host Blue Hour 3 connecting science, culture and community through art and technology, to tell the story of the emerging “Blue Economy.” More than a dozen artists and organizations will par ticipate in the Blue Hour 3 event, which will exemplify STEAM (sci ence, technology, engineering, art and math) education for students of all ages.

Time: 5 to 9 p.m., Oct. 8

Cost: $100 and up

Details: https://altasea-projectblue.org/the-blue-hour-2022/ Venue: AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles, 2451 Signal St., San Pe dro

Oct. 15

Water: Soil, Plants, Climate. Beyond Irrigation

Join this class led by UC master gardener Elizabeth Sala.

Time: 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Cost: Free

Details: southbaygarden7@ gmail.com.

Venue: Feed and Be Fed gar den/The Garden Church, 429 W. 6th St., San Pedro

Oct. 23

San Pedro Day of the Dead Festival

Everyone is welcome to the Dia de los Muertos celebration. You can bring a picture of a loved one to be placed on the community altar at the parking lot at 6th and Mesa streets. Park at the foot of 6th Street, next to the Los Ange les Maritime Museum and ride the free trolley up to the event.

Time: 2 to 8 p.m., Oct. 23

Cost: Free

Details: https://tinyurl.com/dia-delos-muertos

Venue: On 7th and Centre streets and 6th and Mesa streets, down town San Pedro

ONGOING

Open Garden

Every Tuesday, Friday and First Thursday evening, San Pedro’s own urban farm opens its downtown garden. There’s also organic produce for sale at San Pedro Farmers’ Market at the corner of 6th and Mesa streets, Fridays 11 a.m to 3 p.m. Come share nature’s bounty and beauty as they grow veg etables, flowers and community. Get your hands in the dirt as a volunteer, get expert advice or just relax.

Time: Tuesdays 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Fridays 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and First Thursday evenings.

Cost: Free

Details: feedandbefed.org

Venue: Feed and Be Fed Farm, 429 W. 6th St., San Pedro

Craig Keith Antrim, Painter

6, 1942 to Sept. 15, 2022)

Craig Keith Antrim was born and raised in Pasadena, Calif. He began his college career at the University of California Santa Barbara as a pre-med zoology student but switched majors, finding art was better suited to his interests. He received a bachelor’s degree in art with honors, his emphasis in drawing and painting.

After graduating UCSB, Craig joined the Army Medical Service Corps, where part of his

service included a combat tour in Vietnam. After completing his service commitment, he returned to his beloved California, moved to Santa Barbara and picked up where he left off, painting and drawing. Much of his work was influenced by his understanding of philosophy, Jungian psychology, the philosophy of Joseph Campbell and art history.

He continued his education at Claremont

Editorial Cartoonist Ann Cleaves (July 26, 1945 to July 7, 2022)

Ann Elspeth Whitney was born in Schenectady, New York to Elspeth Paterson Whitney and Douglas Brainard Whitney.

As a child, Ann recalled in an interview with a fellow cartoonist, she spent summers at an interracial church camp founded during the Great Depression. During college in the 1960s, curious about the civil rights movement, she spent a semester at Tougaloo College near Jackson, Miss. Later she taught in a summer program on the South Side of Chicago.

Ann was an award winning cartoonist whose cartoons appeared in the Palisadian Post (Pacific Palisades ), Random Lengths News and La Prensa in San Diego. Her cartoons have also appeared in The Washington Post National Weekly Edition, the Pasadena Star News and the Temple (Texas) and the Daily Telegram. Several of Ann’s cartoons won first place awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association. In 2000, she illustrated the best selling book Oh No! Not Another Problem She also illustrated a book on real estate myths.

Her cartoons appeared in the book Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year since 1993. They also appeared in several textbooks.

Ann’s cartoons were included in a show about 9/11 at the Impolitic Gallery in Santa Monica. Her cartoons were also included in the USA Patriot Art show in Washington, D.C. in 2002 and in the exhibition Target: California at the California

Graduate School where he earned a master of fine arts degree in 1970. Upon completion of his MFA, he was hired by the University of Florida, Gainesville to teach all

History Museum in Sacramento in 2005.

A graduate of Brown University, Ann also studied art at Rhode Island School of Design, The Art Institute in San Miguel Allende, Mexico, and the University of Houston. She began cartooning as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia. Then, as a volunteer in Fiji she illustrated schoolbooks for the Fiji Ministry of Education.

Ann worked in her studio at Angels Gate Cultural Center for more than 15 years as a full time cartoonist.

Ann lived with her husband Courtland in Los Angeles where she taught high school subjects in the adult division of the Los Angeles School District from 1988 to 2004. In 2018, Ann was voted to the Board of Directors for the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists.

Ann is survived by her husband of 53 years, Courtland, and her brothers, Bill of Portland, Ore., John of Colorado Springs and niece Allison Freeman of Seattle, Wash.

their color theory courses. While in Florida his work was acquired by the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. Missing California, he returned after two years to focus on his painting. He initially settled in San Pedro and established a studio on 6th Street next to a number of established artists such as Jay McCafferty and Dusty Schuler.

Craig has had numerous solo and group shows throughout California, Washington, Japan and Korea. His work was included in the much acclaimed 1986 show, The Spiritual in Art — Abstract Painting 1890 - 1985, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. This show traveled to the prestigious Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago IL, and the Haag Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Holland.

After living in San Pedro he moved to a studio in Inglewood for a number of years before returning and purchasing a studio on Pacific Avenue. In addition to working daily in his studio, he continued to teach at El Camino College, LA Harbor College and Pasadena City College. The artists paint company, Windsor & Newton, recruited him as an instructor, becoming part of their artist outreach program to demonstrate fine art materials at colleges and universities.

Craig’s work can be found in the collections of The Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Long Beach Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, Palm Springs Desert Museum, University of California Los Angeles Grunewald Center and the National Endowment for the Arts. Look for him in the recently published L.A. Rising, SoCal Artists Before 1980 by Lyn Kienholz.

A memorial exhibition of his work is being planned at Gallery 478, San Pedro for later this year. Funeral services are pending.

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said. “I’m not even talking about people that are actually affected by COVID and unemployment due to COVID and illness during COVID. I’m talking the fraud and abuse, and this has been horrible.”

San Pedro resident Steve Casares spoke out in favor of the protections for renters.

“I am of the opinion that housing is a human right, not something to be done for profit,”

Moratorium Ends Storage Units

She said that there are a series of cul-de-sacs on Miraflores that will be blocked.

“Traffic will be impeded, critically impeded, with the construction going on, and also the noise abatement, as well as the dust,” Koletty said.

Delaney Jones, a neighbor who lives within 500 feet of the proposed project, also voiced his concerns at the meeting. He said that when Harbor Animal Care Center was built, he was told that the dog shelter would be indoors. The opposite happened. He can hear the dogs barking frequently.

“That’s why I’m concerned about the accuracy of this storage place,” Jones said. “Does that picture accurately represent what it’s going to be like?”

He also expressed concerns with traffic.

“It’s highly congested as it is, and that cut through is really not an alternative for cars,” Jones said. “At one point, going through the alley, it’s literally one-way. There’s been numerous traffic accidents reported in that alley, including my next-door neighbor.”

Eric Higuchi, who represents the developers, said that the neighbors were right about the traffic

Casares wrote on Facebook. “I would prefer that some of the protections stay in place because too many Rent Collectors have too much power and abuse the current system.”

Abuses in San Pedro

A San Pedro resident, who requested not to be named, is facing eviction, but does not know why. She said she is a good tenant. She says she is quiet, and has kept up on her rent. She doesn’t understand why her landlord wants to evict her.

Twice, her landlord has sent her brotherin-law to harass her. The first time, he body-

that construction will bring.

“There’s no hiding it,” Higuchi said. “It will be an inconvenience for residents.”

Higuchi said the city won’t allow the developers to block traffic in the previously mentioned alley, but that they will use Cabrillo Ave. as an alley for construction staging.

“I understand Miraflores is already impacted by delivery trucks, just parking kind of in the middle of the street,” Higuchi said. “I can’t speak for everyone, of our contractors, but every effort will be made never to block that street.”

Higuchi said he does not want to remove the trees but he’s planning to do so to comply with the San Pedro community plan.

“Not saving them would require a variance,” Higuchi said. “We hope with your support, and pressure on city planning that we will be able to save them. But it’s a function of requiring a parkway setback along that street.”

Higuchi said that there are a lot of new multifamily housing projects proposed in the area, but not a lot of storage facilities, and argued this would benefit new residents. He also said it might keep homeless people away.

“We hope that the cameras and the lights would dissuade those transients from parking in the car, or loitering out on that street,” Higuchi said.

slammed her, and the second time he hit her in the face. The landlord has also removed the resident’s washer, dryer, kitchen table and chairs, trash can and mailbox. The resident is renting a duplex, and her landlord tore down the wall between the two different sections of the house, eliminating the barrier between the resident and the landlord’s parents.

The resident said that earlier this year, her landlord filed a lawful detainer to evict her, but the woman won the case. The resident does intend to leave, but not until her landlord pays her relocation money.

Another San Pedro resident, named Loretta McNair, rents a fourplex, and has a vacancy because a tenant was evicted during the COVID-19 protections.

“It took almost one year to get her out,” McNair wrote via Facebook Messenger. “She was violent and assaulted two other tenants, she was schizophrenic and destroyed the property, and she had three dogs in her one bedroom apartment that she couldn’t take care of. Those renter protections were a case of the law protecting the criminal rather than the victims of her crimes. We were all scared to leave our apartments every day while she lived here.”

McNair said the woman was a squatter and never paid rent. The landlord was eventually able

LB Candidates

An exceptional example of her status as some what of an outsider candidate can be found in her relationship with the Citizen Police Complaint Commission. Gonzales tore into the organiza tion, calling it a disgrace, citing the legal battle between it and her, since dead, whistleblower husband. Gonzales continues, calling the cur rent state of the broader legal system a threat to democracy. This relationship to the CPCC is especially worth consideration when it’s consid ered that her opponent, Ricks-Oddie, is a former member of this exact group.

Ricks-Oddie is another matter entirely, con cerning her run, she is extremely articulate and specific. Her endorsement list is massive, includ ing groups like the California Democrats, Rep. Nanette Barragán, the Long Beach Police Union, the AFL-CIO, former district nine representa tive Rex Richardson, and the list goes on. She is without a doubt the favored candidate, with 1%

to evict her through the court system, not because of the non-payment of rent, but because of the attacks.

“I’m happy that the government applied compassion to the situation we all faced for two years, but disgusted at the abuses that came from it,” McNair wrote. “So I don’t mind when [the renter protections] come to an end.”

more of the vote, she would have won the prima ries outright. With her policy this trend contin ues, it is progressive, yes, but it is also very by the books and very incremental. Nothing in her policy book seems to deviate from established Democratic Party doctrine in the state, with the exception of healthcare. A doctor of epidemiolo gy, she endorses the statewide push for Medicare For All, deviating from the establishment politics that killed Assembly bill 1400, the bill in Feb ruary that attempted universal healthcare at the state level. Still with a very safe, incrementalist, policy book at the council level, endorsements from nearly every establishment group one could think of, and an absolutely crushing 25 point lead in the primaries, Ricks-Oddie is by far the more likely of the two candidates to win, as aside from the humanistic element and more progressive outlook, Gonzales has nothing she can leverage against her wellendorsed opponent.

15 Real People, Real News, Really Effective September 29October 12, 2022 Anti-eviction protest in downtown Los Angeles in 2020. Photo by Lucy Nicholson