RLn 03-02-23

PBID proposes sign for downtown San Pedro and residents are critical p. 3

Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum unveils Lee Krasner: A Through Line p. 9

Aquafaba: The fabulous water in bean cans p. 10

San Pedro’s Shoe Agent Has You Covered

Al Murray Shoes celebrates centennial in San Pedro

By Melina Paris, Assistant Editor

A century ago, Al Murray Shoes opened on 6th Street in San Pedro. That’s what the very amiable owner J.C. Ryu explained when I went to the store to speak to him, on a tip from one of his customers about this occasion. The store is now located in Park Plaza off Western Avenue, in San Pedro. The original location still has the store’s name embedded in the Terrazzo at what is now JDC Records.

Al and Murray Kantor were two of three brothers who came to Los Angeles from New York. Census records suggest that the Kantors immigrated to the United States as early as 1884, likely to escape the intense anti-semitism, class struggles and national rivalries (Austria-Hungary and Russia) in the waning days of the tripartite Poland. All three were in the shoe business. Together, the brothers ran several shoe stores throughout Southern California. Al ran two of those stores, the ones in San Pedro and Wilmington, before turning them over to his son, Ron Kantor, in 1964. Ron, now retired, sold (or passed on) the stores to J.C., a longtime shoe-man in his own right before going into business with the Kantors. J.C. took over the Wilmington store in 1985 and eventually moved to the San Pedro store in 1994. He ran both stores until he closed the Wilmington store around 2000. Before completely retiring, Ron (91) worked part-time for J.C. for about nine years. J.C., a very young 85-year-old, asked, but Ron doesn’t remember which month in 1923 the store opened in downtown San Pedro.

A quick bit of research shows the store resided in Downtown San Pedro on 6th Street for six decades before closing the shop and relocating to Park Plaza in 1984. An old San Pedro News Pilot dated March 7, 1949 reported “Exclusive Agency Given Shoe Store.”

It reads:

Al Murray’s Bootery at 375 Sixth St. today announced that it had been selected as agent for the Gold (Red) Cross line of women’s shoes. Shipments of the product known for its comfort in addition to the latest in style creations,’ are arriving at the store and will be displayed as a complete line soon, Murray said. This is the first time this brand has been available in the harbor area.

The advertisement highlights Murray Kantor quickly adopting Red Cross shoewear at a time when the company was quickly diversifying its

House Hands Hens To Fox

Fox’s lies about voter fraud helped fuel the Jan. 6 insurrection

By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor

Just four days after a court filing revealed Fox stars repeatedly calling the “stolen election” stories they promoted “crazy,” word leaked that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was handing Fox’s most prominent propagandist, Vladimir Putin apologist and conspiracy theorist — Tucker Carlson — about 44,000 hours of Capitol surveillance tapes from the Jan. 6 insurrection, a move immediately blasted as a Capitol security and national security threat.

“It’s hard to overstate the potential security risks if this material were to be used irresponsibly,” Jan. 6 Select Committee Chair Bennie Thompson said, when word leaked on Feb 20. Viewing all the tapes would provide comprehensive behind-the-scenes intelligence regarding security camera locations, security protocols, evacuation routes — everything that insurrectionists planning a future assault could possibly want to know.

“We were very careful to put together a very comprehensive video portrait of what happened that day,” said Jaime Raskin, who served with Thompson on the Jan. 6 Committee. “But we didn’t give away the location of cameras, we didn’t give away evacuation routes, escape pathways for the members of Congress.”

“These [tapes] are security footage,” said Donald Trump impeachment manager Rep. Madeleine Dean. “It is revealing of where the Capitol police are and different staging, what was going on. It would give access to bad actors to try to do it again. So it’s extraordinarily irresponsible.”

McCarthy, who promised to release the tapes as part of his campaign for House Speaker, tried to spin the release as an act of transparency, saying the tapes “belong to the American public.” But he didn’t give the tapes to the American people. He gave them to Tucker Carlson

— a man who created a three-part conspiracy-riddled pseudo-documentary, Patriot Purge, in 2021 arguing that Jan. 6 was a false flag operation, “being used as a pretext to strip millions of Americans — disfavored Americans — of their core constitutional rights, and to defame them as domestic terrorists.”

“Can you imagine if the Jan. 6 Select Committee had done this? Given materials to one network, much less one host,” said Raskin. “There would have rightfully been a scandal about it. And so when Kevin McCarthy says he wants to give it to the American people, but it’s going to be filtered through the prism of Tucker Carlson, I think it shows how distorted and deranged his politics have become.”

In Patriot Purge, Carlson argued that, “The

[See Al Murray’s, p. 4] [See Fox, p. 15]

J.C. Ryu, owner of Al Murray Shoes in Park Plaza on Western Avenue in San Pedro. Photo by Arturo GarciaAyala

Community Announcements: Harbor Area

soundpedro2023 MINGLE Call for Submissions

FLOOD seeks sound art for inclusion in a variety of on-site and online presentations June 3 to Nov. 24.

Details: https://www.soundpedro.org/participate

Harbor City Town Hall

Harbor City residents are invited to join on March 4 for the third town hall in the series throughout the One-Five.

Details: 323-732-4515 or cd15.rsvp@lacity.org

Volunteer Income Tax Assistance

Centro CHA has partnered up with Cal State Long Beach to provide free tax preparation.

Time: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 4

Details: RSVP 562- 612-4180

Venue: Jenny Oropeza Community Center, 401 Golden Ave., Long Beach

Rancho Los Alamitos Internships

Rancho Los Alamitos is seeking two temporary, part-time interns to support the organization’s diversity, equity and inclusion or DEI goals. The successful applicants for this opportunity will be upper-level undergraduate or graduate students at Cal State University Long Beach and will work from June 2023 into fall 2023. The time commitment is approximately five to 10 hours weekly (130 total), and each intern will receive a $2,000 scholarship. Deadline to apply March 6.

Details: https://rancholosalamitos.org

Curbside Organics Recycling Program

OrganicsLA is a curbside recycling program from the City of LA to keep organic waste out of landfills and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Senate Bill 1383 requires every jurisdiction in the state to provide organic waste collection service. The bill now requires residents to place food scraps and food-soiled paper, along with yard waste, in their green bin.

To help residents start collecting food scraps, the city is providing two-gallon kitchen pails. Details: https://tinyurl.com/organic-waste-pales

San Pedro Bay Ports Give Quarterly Clean Air Action Plan Update

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will give a progress update on the San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan or CAAP March 8. The meeting will include a status update of the clean truck fund rate implementation, status of the ports’ Technology Advancement Program projects, and looking at 2022 accomplishments and 2023 priorities.

The meeting will be held virtually and is open to the public. To participate in the meeting, click here: https://tinyurl.com/quarterly-clean-air-update

You will receive instructions on how to participate via computer or phone. Minutes of prior meetings can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/ about-the-plan

The ports will take public comments at the advisory meeting to receive input on CAAP implementation. The agenda will be posted on the CAAP website prior to the meeting.

Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., March 8

Details: cleanairactionplan.org

Sponsorships Available for Community

Nonprofits

Nonprofit organizations are invited to apply for the Port of Long Beach’s community sponsorship program, which funds community events and activities that help inform residents about the port. The events center on the environment, education, social justice, the arts and historic preservation.

Community groups may submit sponsorship applications online starting March 1, through 5 p.m. March 31. Due to the application review process, applicants are advised to plan well in advance for their events. Once the application period closes, a 60-day time frame is needed before the proposed event may commence due to the careful review, consideration and recommendation process followed prior to approval by the Board of Harbor Commissioners.

Details: www.polb.com/sponsorships

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PBID Proposes Sign for Downtown, San Pedro Residents are Critical

By Hunter Chase, Community News Reporter

San Pedro has been given a choice of what sign it wants to welcome visitors to downtown San Pedro — but critics say all the choices are too similar.

The proposed sign will go on 6th Street and Harbor Boulevard. The San Pedro Historic Wa terfront Business Improvement District, or PBID, is financing the sign. The PBID put three choices for the proposed sign’s design on its website. In addition, the website has a survey where people can rank them. Alan Johnson, a representative of the PBID, encouraged people to vote at the Feb. 21 meetings of both the central and coastal San Pedro neighborhood councils. The PBID will use the design that gets the most votes.

Gianine Rizzi, a consultant for the PBID, said that the three designs are very similar. The basic differences are between the shapes and the fonts. They have the same color scheme and materials.

“We wanted it to communicate a very straightforward message, not getting too clut tered with too much verbiage,” Johnson said.

Shannon Ross, board member of the Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Council, asked why the survey did not have an option for people who dis like all three designs.

“I absolutely cannot support this,” Ross said. “Many community members have expressed their distaste for this specific design.”

Ross said she wants a fourth option for a completely different design.

“We’re given three options that essentially look the same,” Ross said.

Johnson said the designs were created by a five member committee, including three members of the PBID and two community members, including Linda Grimes, executive director of the Waterfront Arts District.

“The intention when we asked Linda to join us, [was] that she would, as much as possible, as anyone could represent artists, that she was in touch with the artists’ community,” Johnson said.

Johnson said that the PBID would be paying for this sign out of its own budget, which is $1.3 million per year. The money comes from property owners in downtown San Pedro.

“These dollars that are going to go toward this sign are 100% [P]BID stakeholders’ dollars,” Johnson said. “There’s no public money that goes into this.”

Johnson said that the business owners decided they wanted to spend about $250,000 on this, which is the project’s approximate budget.

Ross pointed out that even though the PBID would be paying for it, the sign would still be on public property, and argued that it was a community sign.

Johnson said that one of the main objectives of the sign was to alert tourists and visitors of the business district’s existence and location.

“You really don’t know there’s this beautiful point, little downtown, just up a few blocks,” Johnson said. “It’s not really visible … So it’s the business district’s way of saying, hey, we’re up here.”

Johnson said the sign is not a public art piece, it’s just to attract people to the business district. He said the sign is designed to be simple, and to match

compatible with those buildings that it looks of its time.”

The sign was originally going to be a full arch, connecting on both sides of the street. Johnson said the reason it was changed to half an arch is because of a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power vault on the south side of the street.

“If we were to move it far enough west to clear the vault, we’d be about another 35 feet back,” Johnson said. “And we felt that’s very important to get it as close to Harbor Boulevard as we can because that’s really the traffic that we want to say, ‘here we are.’”

Ziggy Mrkich asked if the PBID would consider moving

Report: Walmart, Other Importers Need to Speed Zero-Emissions Shift

“The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have a unique responsibility to end ship pollution and should lead the United States toward achieving 100% zero-emission shipping by 2040.” That’s the first key takeaway for ports and policymakers in a research report from the Ship It Zero campaign released on March 1. Its key takeaway for companies and sectors was “Major U.S. importers across sectors must make more near-term, year-over-year commitments to abandon dirty, fossil-fueled ships this decade.”

The report “All Brands On Deck: Top Furniture, Fashion, Retail & Technology Companies Must Act to Abandon Dirty Ships,” analyzed the climate and other pollution impacts of 18 companies importing their goods into the U.S. in 2021. Altogether they were responsible for 3.5 million metric tons of climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions, with Walmart, Target and Home Depot leading the way. Collectively those three produced the majority of climate and air pollution of all companies analyzed.

“If shipping were a country, it would be the world’s sixth largest climate polluter,” Ship It Zero noted in a press release. “But since maritime shipping negotiated itself out of the U.N. Paris Agreement, the effort to reduce

emissions in the industry has been slower than in other sectors.” Companies reliant on shipping could change that, with public commitments to zero-emissions shipping. But they’re lagging in doing so.

“Walmart and Home Depot, in particular, are neglecting their responsibilities to extend their climate commitments to the seas and do right by U.S. port communities,” said the report’s main author, Madeline Rose, climate campaign director at Pacific Environment, a partner in the Ship It Zero campaign. Neither company has made any public commitments.

In addition, “Current 2040 commitments from Target, Amazon, IKEA and others are too late,” the press release noted. They’re “a step in the right direction but it simply doesn’t go far enough,” said Kendra Ulrich, shipping campaigns director for Stand.earth, another Ship It Zero partner.

“We urge Walmart, Home Depot and all companies that continue to rely on fossilfueled ocean freight services to abandon dirty ships now and compete to put their goods on the world’s first zero-emission vessels,” said Rose.

—Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor

The three options for a proposed downtown San Pedro sign. Renderings courtesy of the San Pedro Historic Waterfront Business District [See Sign Designs, p. 5]

Al Murray’s Celebrates Centennial

offerings including COBBIES, Joyce and Social ite. The company had also acquired Selby shoes. For sake of comparison, the Red Cross shoe was the Nike, Reebok and Adidas shoe companies combined in its heyday and Murray opened sev eral stores selling these product lines from Hol lywood to San Pedro.

Al Murray Shoes has long provided function al, yet fashionable shoes. This business has man aged to keep customers returning largely because of that functional part. And of course, J.C.

Back in the boom years of downtown San Pe dro there were more than one shoe store, several men’s clothing and women’s wear stores — one that sold industrial strength bras and underwear for the cannery workers at StarKist.

J.C. appreciates working in San Pedro be cause of the relationships and friendships he’s built with his clients.

“I do not have many strange customers com ing in here,” said J.C. “I don’t have many people who are just shopping around. I do have people who come, they know who I am, they know what they want. They know what kind of help they need. We [help] more functional than fashion able clients.”

J.C. deals with podiatrists, trainers, thera pists and medical doctors. He said it’s because many people have challenges in their daily life. Not necessarily health issues, but sometimes fit issues or they need a modification of the shoe.

“I definitely have a clientele that needs help and the help they need cannot be handled by an online business,” J.C. said.

He explained some of the issues that he is able to help people with. Sometimes the left and right

feet are different, not only in size, but maybe a different shape or other issues. Sometimes a person’s leg can be longer or shorter than the other one and he will address that as much as he can. He also deals with orthotics (arch supports), from custom made to over the counter.

“We have different options and ways for fitting people with orthotics or braces … and we also deal with [clients with] diabetes, arthritis, neuroma, heel spur, pronation, knee or ankle problems, pelvic and low back problems. It’s all related [to] the shoes, actually, many times.”

J.C. said it’s not a “foot cover” business, it’s

more functional. Many people need this kind of help. Here, customers won’t get the regular department store type of customer service, but he admits, unfortunately, it’s “a kind of dinosaur” and a disappearing area.

“Nobody does what we do anymore,” he said. “There used to be a lot more but it seems to be dying one by one.”

J.C. started as a young man of 30 in this business and he said he’s probably one of the oldest people in it now. He is rightfully proud of what he says is a long record of history with his clients. He checks on them every time they come in. He’s not looking for that quick sale or to give them the same shoes, he said, because their body and health changes.

“In the beginning I thought I knew pretty much everything about [a customer]. Now I’ve changed my view, totally,” J.C. said. “Every time, it’s a new case. I don’t assume it’s going to be the same [situation for a client] every time. Each time a customer returns I think of it as a new process.”

He said he’s learned from his mistakes but he also learned to not solely trust his experience. When a customer comes in he approaches it like they are partners. He gets their input and tests things out to find a solution for them.

He’s still learning every day. The shoeman’s aim is to make clients better than they were when they walked in — and happy. That makes him happy and he added, they become friends.

“I’ve had a lot of interesting customers here through the years,” J.C. said. “I know their families, I know their dogs, where they work, their children and we share family photos together. If I stop this business, those relationships and friendships are what I will miss, not the income. We’re not just customer and retailer, we are friends with each other.”

It’s clear J.C. loves his work, to the point that retirement is not even a consideration.

“I don’t think [retiring] is my will, actually, because of the business environment these days,” he said. “Especially with rents going so high, it’s challenging. After the pandemic it made it even harder because I had to shut down this store for about two and a half months. [This is] a small business. We don’t have unlimited income or an investor either. Everything is from my pocket.

“That’s another thing, a lot of people called me to check how I was and to say they were glad I was still here in business … they said I better not go out of business until I die.”

J.C. said he believes your feet are not just at the bottom of your body — they hold your whole body. If you have issues with your feet, your posture will be impacted, your lifestyle will even change. If you cannot move about freely that creates other issues, including mental issues. You may be a little more depressed if you’re not moving, which affects your exercising.

“It’s all connected,” J.C. said. “I’m like a shoe agent, not just a salesman. I talk to podiatrists all the time about what they need for their patients and what they suggest [for patients’ foot care]. It’s a give and take and we’re friends too.”

More Than Paint

Long Beach Advocate Wants Better Bike Infrastructure

By Daniel Rivera, Editorial Intern

“Paint is not bike infrastructure,” said Erin Hoops, a local advocate who has started her journey for progress.

Hoops is an advocate for changes to public infrastructure that would enable more alternatives to driving cars. This is a goal that has become far more important to her since she was diagnosed with spinocerebellar ataxia, a group of inherited brain disorders affecting the cerebellum, a part of the brain vital to coordination of physical movement, and sometimes spinal cord. This inherited condition worsens over time and causes specific problems with coordination, usually affecting the eyes.

“It’s sort of similar to Huntington’s diseases, except its slower [to progress],” she said, explaining the impact it will have on her life.

She has family members who share the same diagnosis and was always at risk until she confirmed it through various tests a few years ago.

After enough time has passed, she will be confined to a wheelchair and the type of infrastructure she is fighting for will be necessary for her to live a full and independent life.

“I can currently drive and walk but I have a progressive disease, so in the next five to 10 years, I won’t be able to drive or walk,” she said.

She wants this infrastructure so that as a person who will become disabled can still lead an independent life even when she has to get around with a wheelchair.

Her advocacy can be seen through the material she posts online on her Instagram account, @erinhoopslb, where she posts various articles and studies on public safety and infrastructure.

She is a new arrival in Long Beach, having been in the city for about a year. Originally, she moved to Los Angeles where she met her wife and both decided to settle in Long Beach for work.

Erin believes that the city of Long Beach needs to do more to enable a car free lifestyle and a safer city. Part of that means slower speed limits and slimmer roads to further reduce their speeds. The remaining room can be used to make dedicated biking lanes that are separate from traffic.

“You drive whatever speeds feels safe … so when the road is wide, when you have wide lanes … you can go really fast,” she said.

The city started an initiative called the Safer Streets Long Beach, A Vision Zero Action Plan which was started in 2020. But this initiative has experienced delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Data from the City of Long Beach claims that deaths by collision are most common on active streets like Pacific Coast Highway and Anaheim. And that fatality rates rise with speed, from 13% at 20 miles per hour to 73% at 40 miles per hour.

“Absolutely not, yeah paint is not bike infrastructure,” she said when asked about the various painted lines and sharrows meant for bikers. A sharrow is a painted symbol on the road marking it out for bikers.

She explains that the biggest issue with sharrows is that no one wins with this solution.

Above is a 1983 photo of Ron Kantor at Al Murray Shoes in the San Pedro News Pilot at the Park Plaza Shopping Center. File photo.

Infrastructure

Rather, you end up with an angry driver who has to slow down for a bike going 15 miles per hour and an anxious biker holding up traffic and putting themselves in a potentially deadly situation.

It provides no protection; versus the solid concrete islands meant to provide safety and separation for people using alternative means of transportation.

The long-term goal of her advocacy is fewer cars on the road, slower cars on the road and more people using bikes or buses to get around. Her intended purpose is less collision-related deaths with the added benefit of independence

Sign Design

it back 35 feet.

“It seems worth it, because a lot of people have been commenting on social media,” Mrkich said. “Everyone seems to be disappointed it’s not an arch.”

In a post about the sign on a Facebook group for the San Pedro Arts and Cultural District, Todd Ho, a member of the group, said that he thought the signs could be from any town in the USA.

“They should have designed something unique to San Pedro,” Ho wrote.

Group member Susan Hadeishi wrote that San Pedro should show alternatives from a wide range of local artists.

“Awkward. Cold. Uninspired. Sorry PBID you can do better,” wrote group member Judith Blahnik.

Group member Laura Raab compared the designs to billboards.

“[T]he thing I don’t like about these sign op-

for people without cars, people with disabilities and people using bikes or skating. Another byproduct of this might also be cleaner air due to less overall smog.

She explains that a part of this process of making cars go slower is adding more sidewalks to various places around Long Beach. These are a part of biking infrastructure because they force drivers to slow down.

A local group called the Washington Neighorhood Association has also conducted protests around Long Beach. And there is also the Crosswalk Collective, who have taken to drawing crosswalks on a variety of streets.

That crosswalk you have been using might not be an official one, but many aim to change that.

tions is that they are the size, proportion and support structure of a billboard instead of a gracious, enticing entryway,” Raab wrote.

Group member Laureen Vivian said she loves the designs.

“YES PLEASE,” Vivian wrote. “I even like the black and white and the font used (maybe a tad big)…. Still an Art Deco crown would be the cherry on top — and it needs to say “Historic””

Johnson said PBID kept the survey running through the end of February. As of press time, the survey is still on the website. At some point afterwards, it will have a public meeting to discuss the project. Then it will meet with various city departments, such as the Bureau of Engineering and the Department of Transportation.

Johnson asked both San Pedro neighborhood councils to write a letter of support. Neither agreed to it at the February meetings. Neither had such an item on either of their agendas, but they might in the future.

The PBID did not respond to requests for comment on this story.

Sign of the Times

Process and entitlement obscure original intent

By James Preston Allen Publisher

Recently, the public welcome sign project for the foot of Sixth Street has caused quite a stir. Renderings of the sign were unveiled by the San Pedro Property Owners Alliance, commonly referred to as the PBID on social media and a Feb. 21 public meeting. It’s actually a project that has been in the works for a long time and has its origins in the vision for the original Arts, Culture and Entertainment district back in 2007. However, the PBID has taken up the mission, like they did with the sidewalk dining idea and proceeded. Kudos for carrying on.

The “committee” that has been working on this project in relative silence consists of three board members (two unnamed) and Alan Johnson (part of the Jericho Development group and West Harbor fame); Linda Alexander, a Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council member and Linda Grimes, the executive director of the San Pedro Waterfront Arts District nonprofit. None of these are artists or designers in their own right, yet they have proceeded to commission and conjure up three designs that are almost exactly the same, except for minor variation in font or border styling. And then they proceed to put them out for the public to choose from: A, B or C. As one neighborhood council member commented, why isn’t there a “none of the above” choice?

The design appears in the renderings to be a cantilevered piece that stretches over Sixth Street, anchored to the north side of the street with a lamp post that lights up at night, welcoming people from Harbor Boulevard into the downtown district (see page 3 of this issue). It rises up high enough to let large vehicles pass and probably meets all of the LADOT’s standards. Sounds pretty good, except that it was originally going to be an arch, but the LADWP has a transformer buried in the ground

where the other side would be planted next to the former Pepper Tree Plaza.

Could it be moved up the street or over to Seventh Street? Yes, but that’s not the discussion — it’s either A, B or C at this point as though the place and choices are a fait accompli. It’s not back to the drawing board or anything else, and that’s frustrating for a public sign that is supposed to signify the core of our city. Aside from looking like a very, very large street sign hanging on a street lamp, I have several problems with the end result.

First, is the process by which the decision was made. There was no serious outreach to the talent of the local creative arts community during the months-long planning process. Second

there was never any consideration for an “open call” for creative ideas outside of the PBID or a request for proposals.

Third is the relative lack of public input. Even though all PBID meetings are Brown Acted open meetings, few people actually attend. No outreach efforts were made over the months of discussion to bring a larger circle of professionals to the table.

And lastly, the PBID seems to act as the shadow government of downtown San Pedro or San Pedro’s fourth neighborhood council except with a much larger annual budget of some $1.3 million but with far less inclusivity as it’s made up solely of property owners or their designated representatives. Councilman Tim McOsker is their past president.

At the recent Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council, on which I sit as vice president, Alan Johnson presented and defended the design options, stating that the $250,000 price was paid for by PBID dollars.

“These dollars that are going to go toward this sign are 100% [P]BID stakeholders’ dollars,” Johnson said. “There’s no public money that goes into this.”

This is only half true. Approximately 28% or more of the PBID budget comes from public entities like the Port of LA, City of LA and County of LA. And as such, their budget is annually scrutinized by the city controller and clerk’s offices. So in fact, some 30% is public money. Johnson went on to say that the business owners decided they wanted to spend that $250,000 on this, which is the project’s approximate budget.

Shannon Ross, from Coastal San Pedro NC rightly pointed out that even though the PBID would be paying for it, the sign would still be on public property, and argued that it was “a community sign.”

And to the point that Johnson said, “this is not art but a street sign” defense, this project will have to suffer a review by none other than the LA Department of Cultural Affairs — that’s the city’s arts organization. So even though this is “just a sign” it will be scrutinized as public art.

This process is the same mistake that the former Councilman Joe Buscaino made with his designation of a section of downtown San Pedro as “Little Italy” and then absconding with Pepper Tree Plaza to make it a “piazza — lack of public engagement, semi-private meetings and ignoring the input of the neighborhood councils (or other

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stakeholders) and then assuming a sense of entitlement because of the position he held. These are failures of leadership and the arrogance of power. Buscaino and the PBID see nothing wrong with running things like it’s their little fiefdom — democratic process be damned. It’s just too messy for them. Well, then why come to the neighborhood councils for letters of endorsement at all? Is it just a box to check off or an afterthought?

The problem and the solution are embedded in this same situation. The original idea of an entrance way to the arts district is one I personally embraced. I even endorsed the idea when I was president of the ACE district. However, the process of creating public art, even functional art, is fraught with many hurdles and Johnson and PBID have just tripped over the first of many without realizing that the public isn’t going to stand for

rubber stamping mediocrity when there’s the pride and prestige of the town at stake.

Transparency disclaimer: the current arts district director Grimes is a relative, Alexander is a member of the Central SPNC that I am an officer on, and I was founding president of the original ACE district — and it’s difficult to see people take good ideas and mangle them with a flawed process. It’s kind of like watching an amateur cook burn an exquisite steak.

Second Thoughts

Courage in leadership is tested in times of crisis, conflict and struggle. It separates those who only desire position from those who are decisive and have the instinct to lead. It often separates friends and makes enemies of others but this kind of courage can only be taught by example.

An Open Letter to Jimmy Carter

By Michael Moore

Dear President Carter:

I know you told me to call you Jimmy, but I couldn’t then. And I can’t now.

In 2004, you invited me to sit next to you in the presidential box at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. It was truly one of the great honors of my life. It also did you no favors, and in that moment I wondered why would you want to suffer the attacks for placing beside you the person who just a year earlier was booed off the stage at the Oscars for dressing down the commander in chief as a war criminal on the fifth night of the Iraq War.

But you didn’t care about the political reaction to you cozying up to me, the backlash you’d get from the 70% of the American public who

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Fabiola Esqueda Visual Journalist/ Social Media Director

supported the invasion of Iraq. You weren’t offended by me who had stood in front of a billion people stating that we were being lied into this war, that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11, that we would find zero weapons of mass destruction, and that thousands of American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians were about to die.

In fact, you agreed with me.

The news last weekend that you’ve decided to enter hospice — an “end of life” hospice as the news reports called it — was devastating. I broke down and cried. People will say that at 98 years old you’ve been blessed to live such

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Fight with Regency Outdoor Advertising? Bring it On

I read last week that Regency Outdoor Advertising claims to be “baffled and perplexed” at the city’s demand that they vacate the location on Gaffey Street and the end of the 110 freeway. That claim is absurd and dishonest. In reality, it is more likely that Regency is frustrated that they can’t gaslight our community into selling away our public safety.

The San Pedro residents have been clear over many years that we want the billboard down. The City acquired the land that the billboard was built on for the sole purpose to clean up the site and have the sign taken down as soon as the lease would expire.

This is about more than aesthetics; this is a public safety issue. Over many years there have been numerous incidents of crime, drug dealing, and dangerous activity in the area shielded by the billboard. We, the community, followed the law and respected the rights of the billboard company. When we acquired the land, there were still several years left on the Regency lease. So, we waited patiently. Before the lease finally expired in December of 2022, the city repeatedly advised the company that the sign had to come down at the end of the lease term. Our position was clear and there was no ambiguity. But now, Regency has chosen to ignore our rights and the law by refusing to vacate the site.

Regency is trying to gaslight us by claiming that keeping that sign on public land is good for

the community. They claim that they want to partner with the City to fund our many needs. This is a laughable claim. First, their rental payments were a paltry $1,100 per month over many years - hardly a stream of income to solve any community issues. Second, Regency has chosen to hold over on the property and has refused to communicate with their landlord, the City. For that reason alone, Regency is clearly not the type of partner that any rational party would want to rely upon.

Regency’s empty promises and disrespect for our community are motivated by greed and driven by dishonesty. Now, the West Hollywood-based company finds itself to be a common squatter on someone else’s land - ours. The lease is over and Regency needs to do the right thing - take the sign down and go away.

But, if they don’t, we’ll see them in court.

Councilmember Tim McOsker

Los Angeles City Council District 15

ILWU SCDC Open Letter of Support for UTLA: Beyond Recovery

Dear President Goldberg, My name is Mickey Chavez.

I am President of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Southern California District Council (SCDC). The SCDC coordinates political and legislative activity for the ILWU, representing over 20,000 workers from Fresno to San Diego.

We thank you for your tire-

a long life. And of course, that is true. But I’m not crying over you. I’m crying for us. We need 10,000 more of you, not one less as you leave us.

The Right despises you because you’re the Christian they fake-claim to be themselves. You’ve lived like a true Christian — humble, kind, forgiving, and always making sure your actions matched your words. You could have had a lucrative post-presidency, raking in the big bucks by sitting on corporate boards and investing in growth capitalism (greed).

Instead, you chose to be a carpenter. You spent your weekends for free building homes for the poor. Most of us had never heard the words “Habitat for Humanity” before you. You set up a center to promote democracy and you personally traveled all over the world to help oversee free and fair elections. For decades you did this — until sadly we needed you to protect us from our own anti-democracy authoritarians at home.

You also traveled the world helping to eradicate disease and perhaps save the lives of millions. For the better part of the three decades after you returned to Plains you wrote nearly a book a year. Few presidents have been as literarily prolific. Who would’ve imagined, almost a quarter of the way through the 21st century, that simply not being an illiterate was the new bar for a politician? You set the highest of goals: Thinking matters. Words matter. Reading and more reading is essential. Listening to others, and caring about what they say and what they need is everything.

less service to our communities and appreciate your attention to this letter. Many of our members are parents of children enrolled in LAUSD. As parents, we are very concerned about the lack of progress being made in negotiations between LAUSD and the United Teachers of Los Angeles. The COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted school-aged children throughout the world. As we adapt to a new normal, it is critical our students receive a quality education without interruption. Teachers educate, support, guide, and play an important role in the lives of our children.

The elected officers and delegates of the ILWU SCDC offer our unanimous support to UTLA in their struggles to negotiate a fair contract. LAUSD currently holds nearly $5 Billion in reserves.

We urge you to take a more active role in ensuring LAUSD Superintendent Carvalho and his negotiating teamwork in the best interest of LAUSD students and negotiate a fair contract with UTLA. We would also remind Superintendent Carvalho that California, unlike Florida, is not a rightto-work state.

We hope this matter is resolved quickly so our children can maintain the stable learning environment they deserve. We as parents believe that investing in teachers means investing in our children. LAUSD Board Members put the interests of the students first. We expect that your hired staff accepts the same responsibility.

Again, thank you for your service.

You never started a war and when Iran kidnapped Americans as hostages and held them for over a year, you didn’t retaliate by wiping out Iran. You were not on the left (you signed the Hyde Amendment and you brought back required registration for the draft, but years ago you said you regretted both and today, your idea of a Democrat is much closer to Bernie Sanders and AOC than, say, to the former senator, Joe Biden).

Speaking of which, one thing I remember about that day in your presidential box was that’s where I met Joe Biden for the first time.

I guess he heard you had quite a spread of food so he just popped in to grab a plate of goodies. He saw me there with you and flipped out with glee. “I was raised in the Flint of Pennsylvania!” he exclaimed. Like someone who was proud of the comparison, and I was happy he made it. I sat and had an intense talk with Biden in that dining area of your box, and 12 Biden F-bombs later, I decided I liked him.

I know that you’ve lovingly decided to spend your final days with your family. So I haven’t called or emailed or texted. If your family wants to read this to you because it’ll bring a smile, then great. But mostly I wanted to give the public a chance to join with me and thank you for what you have done for humanity and for this planet. Please take all this gratitude with you. Please know that you mattered to all of us, you made a huge difference, you fought for those who had the least, and for those deemed to be the last you did your best to make them first.

Jimmy, we love you.

Mickey Chavez President ILWU Southern California District Council

Jimmy Carter

Lee Krasner: A Through Line An artist’s evolution through reinvention

Ever since he came on as the director of the Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, Paul Baker Prindle has been looking forward to showing the Lee Krasner: A Through Line exhibition, which runs through May 19. These Lee Krasner paintings were the biggest discovered gems in the museum’s Hampton collection and Baker Prindle wanted to develop an exhibition to showcase them and look at them through a new art historical lens, while also recognizing that Krasner was very influential in art history and is an unsung legend of her time.

Highlighting Krasner and her art is a fitting way to kick off Women’s History Month. She emerged from the first generation of Abstract Expressionist painters and went on to be recognized as one of the most critical figures in American art in the second half of the 20th

century.

Through personal trials, the death of her husband, abstract painter Jackson Pollock and as a woman artist amid the prevailing patriarchy (which still clings) of mid-century America. A Through Line is a study of reinvention in the way Krasner and her works evolved through constant experimentation, expansion and reuse.

The exhibition provides a context to Krasner’s important abstract paintings and collages from the 1940s to the early 1960s, including four of her works held in the museum’s Gordon F. Hampton Collection and rarely exhibited works on loan. A Through Line highlights breakthrough moments in her career. Her body of work over 50 years points to encompassing portraits, Cubist drawings, collage, assemblage, and largescale abstract painting. Krasner, a force of nature, always pushed abstraction forward.

Krasner became a passionate arts activist and a mural painter for the Works Progress Administration, the Depression-era public art project, and a member of the WPA Artists Union. As a member of American Abstract Artists, she championed artists’ rights, promoted abstract art in the 1930s and ’40s, (then a burgeoning art form) demanded more exhibition opportunities for its artists and pushed for museums to show American artists instead of prioritizing their European peers.

A Through Line begins with an exploration of Krasner’s early interest in cubism. She was influenced by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Hans Hofmann. Her work in the 1930s and 1940s set the stage for her transformation in the 1950s and 1960s, as she started embracing a gestural abstraction — applying an intuitive, physical method focused more on how, rather than what is painted.

The first of Krasner’s pieces is her untitled work from 1942. It hangs alongside Pablo Picasso’s 1926 print, Scène d’intérieur and Hans Hofmann’s painting Pure Space (1952). These three works illustrate shared interests in exploring depth of field, linework and different modes of geometric and gestural abstraction. Pure Space offers visitors an opportunity to better understand how Hans Hofmann’s theory of “push and pull” was translated into paint (the illusion of space, depth, even movement on canvas using color and shape, rather than representational forms). This untitled piece from 1942 is the earliest Krasner work in the exhibition. It presents the influence

By Melina Paris, Assistant Editor

of cubism and also Hoffman’s “push pull” color theory and form theory. Krasner said Hoffman was her primary teacher. In this work she incorporates similar techniques. But she’s also making it her own, creating a combination of curvature and straight line, that make movement and shapes that continue to make appearances in her work, like shard-looking shapes. Krasner was also a huge jazz fan and this work encompasses its progressive, unexpected nature; bold blacks and reds contrast with green, blue and white forms and lines create movement and depth on the canvas before you.

In the center of A Through Line, a turning point for Krasner looms large — the largest piece in the exhibition. Her “poorly received” 1951 exhibition at Betty Parsons Gallery is a main event in her career, after which she hit a sustained stride that would cement her reputation. Just one of two paintings survived from this Parsons exhibition. On loan from

Kasmin Gallery New York, Number 2 (1951) is on view for the first time on the West Coast and only the second time in the United States. Some of the reviews only talked about it from a decorative standpoint — something important to consider — about the work of a female artist within the context of its time and critics’ dismissive nature of women artists. A critical moment for Krasner, she did not exhibit work for the next two years. Number 2 survived destruction by Krasner, suggesting she saw something worth keeping in it. Its color palette is muted, warm and neutral with pops of yellow, blue and orange. It conveys vertical movement, as museum director Paul Baker Prindle noted, as if you’re landing at LAX and

you see the cars on the highway. Krasner used most of the paintings from Parsons for collage scrap or underpaintings for later works.

The third piece, on loan from Des Moines Art Center, Black and White (1953) is a collage incorporating scraps Krasner tore up from both her own works and works from Pollock. Her use of paper initiates a unique way to express build up and perspective to make a different framework for her creative process. Her vertical shapes reappear and shard shapes occur more often. In this transitional moment she moves beyond painting on canvas. The collage illustrates a key step toward new works the artist debuted in a 1955 exhibition at the Stable Gallery, now recognized as a historic highlight for Krasner and for American abstract painting.

Krasner’s creative reuse was later described as “one of the great events of the decade” by art critic Clement Greenberg. Also on view is the iconic Stretched Yellow (1955), from the museum’s collection. The museum notes, the piece, painted over a 1951 painting exhibited at Parsons, is critical to understanding how Krasner’s early work leads up to 1955 and to what happens after. This is when she starts reutilizing works that were said to be “failures.”

She broke canvases up into pieces to create new backgrounds for new composite collage paintings. In Stretched Yellow, Krasner integrated more vibrant blue and black paper. She’s still working with shards and narrow strips, but in a different way and with different materials.

There is a consistent through line, hence the exhibition’s title, where she works in different modes but she has distinctive stylistic hallmarks and techniques that she returns to just like she revisits her work moving it forward and to the next level.

Later works on view, including Cornucopia (1958) and What Beast Must I Adore? (1961) illustrate how Krasner continued to revisit gesture, illusory depth, and line and shape in new ways while remaining grounded in pure abstraction and

[See Krasner, p. 11]

Top: Artist Lee Krasner poses in front of one of her works. Screenshot courtesy of the Biography channel on YouTube Cornucopia (detail) by Lee Krasner. Photo courtesy of the Carolyn Campagna Kleefield Contemporary Art Museum

quafaba, also known as the leftover liquid in a can of beans, is a 9-year-old word based on Latin for “bean water.” When I hear the word aquafaba my mind reflexively thinks “fabulous water,” which is appropriate considering how useful it is, including as an egg substitute.

Egg prices have more than doubled in the past year, thanks to the deadliest-ever outbreak of bird flu. This spring, as the egg industry scrambles to rebuild its flocks, now is a good time to remember the aquafaba and its many uses. You can beat it stiff like egg whites, use it in baked goods, and even emulsify it into the finest mayonnaise.

The water from any type of canned bean can be considered aquafaba, but garbanzo beans

The Fabulous Water of Bean Cans

By Ari LeVaux, Flash In the Pan Columnist

Aquafaba Mayo

This recipe is more forgiving than for making traditional mayo at home. It’s closer in consistency to factory produced supermarket mayo, and the flavor is spot on. Thick, creamy, tangy, tight and firm, it’s totally perfect. You’ll need a narrow jar or cup, and some kind of mixer, ideally an immersion blender.

3 tablespoons garbanzo bean aquafaba

1 tablespoon lemon juice or vinegar

½ teaspoon mustard

½ teaspoon salt

One cup oil, such as olive oil, grapeseed or sunflower oil

Optional: for aioli, minced garlic

In the immersion receptacle or blender, combine all of the ingredients except the oil. Blend for 20 seconds to mix. Slowly, add the oil, a teaspoon at a time, until it starts to noticeably thicken. Pour in the rest of the oil, and garlic if using. Blend until it’s as thick as mayo.

Aquafaba Meringue Cookies

These cookies are sweet and tart, and melt in your mouth like baked cotton candy. Makes 10 cookies

1 refrigerated can of garbanzo beans, shaken vigorously for 30 seconds, and then opened

¼ teaspoon cream of tartar

and other white beans, like Great Northern or White Navy, are used the most, thanks to their mild flavors and because they whip particularly well. Its fabulous properties are due to the fact that legumes contain albumins and globulin proteins that are also found in eggs. These give the aquafaba a kind of strength that allows it to trap and hold air when beaten, as well as imparting it with other egg-like qualities.

Because it’s so useful as an egg substitute in many vegan recipes, most of the discoveries around aquafaba have come from that community. When using aquafaba to replace whole eggs, measure out 3 tablespoons per egg, or 2 tablespoons to replace each egg white. Lightly whisk to aerate, just as you would beat eggs. I’m not a baker, but I have had spectacular results from

adding garbanzo aquafaba to Krusteaz pancake mix. The pancakes were fluffy and firm.

Most impressively, and most importantly, you can use aquafaba as an emulsifier in a delicious egg-free mayonnaise that is as solid as a mayonnaise could be. And it’s easier to make than typical homemade mayo. It might be the best mayo I’ve had, and I don’t say that lightly.

My research on aquafaba resulted in many cans worth of garbanzo bean byproduct. Before the discovery of aquafaba it was usually the other way around, with the beans themselves being the main event and the liquid being forgotten, and discarded. But now I found myself hoarding the liquid from the bean cans, while I figured out what to do with the beans themselves. I ended up making a lot of hummus. The only problem, it turns out, is I needed aquafaba for the hummus too. Hummus, like many things in life, is better with aquafaba.

Here are some fabulous recipes for aquafaba, including for mayonnaise and for baked aquafaba meringue. I’ve also included my hummus recipe since you will need to do something with all of those leftover garbanzo beans.

½ cup sugar

2 teaspoons lemon juice

Empty the liquid into a wide bowl and set aside the beans for later use. Add the cream of tartar, sugar and lemon. With a handheld egg beater or electric beater or mixer – something more than a whisk — beat the aquafaba until you have stiff peaks. While the oven preheats, dollop the foam onto a parchment paper covered baking sheet. Bake at 250º for 45 minutes. Let cool before serving.

Hummus

1 can garbanzo beans

¼ cup tahini

½ teaspoon salt

1 clove garlic

The aquafaba from that can of beans, or as much as you can get

6 tablespoons olive oil

Combine all of the ingredients in a blender. Blend, adding more oil and aquafaba until perfectly irresistibly smooth and runny. Use water if the aquafaba runs out.

Tea Time With UWIS Celebrates International Women’s Day

By Melina Paris, Assistant Editor

Picking up again for the sixth year, after taking two years off through the COVID-19 pandemic, nonprofit organization Union Women in Solidarity or UWIS presents Tea Time on March 8.

Founder Valerie Zaks said “with the pandemic hitting I was at a crossroads on whether or not to continue [the event]. But with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union still not having a contract, we felt it vital to continue our quest.”

Tea Time will be presented by Zaks along with vice president Micki Kirkland and historian Deborah Green. Tickets to the event are available for sale and proceeds will go to women’s shelters across the na-

tion and various activities regarding union women. The event will happen at Chado Tea House in Old Town Torrance. Luisa Gratz from Local 26 will be speaking along with another surprise speaker.

Tea Time will include gift baskets, a raffle and tea service. Many ILWU and tradeswomen will be in attendance.

UWIS is looking forward to another year of sisterhood in this area.

Time: 2:30 to 4 p.m., March 8

Cost: $55.

Details: www.unionwomeninsolidarity.org

Venue: Chado Tea House, 1303 El Prado Ave., Torrance

Aquafaba, the water from cans of beans, can be whipped stiff like egg whites and used in baked goods.

Photo by Ari LeVaux

Lee Krasner

familiar themes.

At this time, Krasner’s works deal with themes of cyclical aspects of nature and seasons. But we still see the same familiar shapes: shards, vertical pieces and pillars, broken up but still visible.

Cornucopia, with its autumn colors, full of swirls like the wind, resemble the tones outdoors where Krasner lived in East Hampton, New York.

The title of the final work in the show, What Beast Must I Adore?, comes from an Arthur Rimbaud poem, which was written in black crayon on her studio wall. It was part of 24 works she did between 1959 and 1962 called The Umber Paintings. Made during a period of insomnia, the composition of brown and neutral tones with bold strokes is a departure for the colorist. But during the night she moves to painting in this deep umber and cream color palette embracing swirling gestural arcs. To not use

color but to be so expressive Krasner clarifies her independence and greater confidence making these swirling arcs her mark even as important male artists like Mark Rothko were driving a turn away from this gesturalism toward broad expanses of saturated color.

A Through Line demonstrates Krasner’s independent vision and stylistic hallmarks. The works prove Krasner was resilient and dedicated, a visionary. In illustrating a continuity Krasner’s critics sometimes denied she had, the museum notes it disputes critiques of Krasner that are often gender biased. Today, Krasner is a revered artist whose importance to the history of art is finally garnering deserved recognition.

Museum director Prindle, who curated the exhibition, spoke about his inspiration and the events that led him to show Krasner’s works at this particular time.

“It was conversations with three graduate students in [the] School of Art that really got us thinking. At first, in the midst of #metoo conversations throughout our industry, we wanted to tell a Krasner story that didn’t center [on]

her husband [Jackson Pollock]. That was a big concern of ours; we wanted to look at Lee Krasner’s work for its merits, not for how her personal life is tied to another artist who is a household name. As our project evolved, Krasner’s ability to rebuild and reinvent felt very timely as we began to imagine what things would look like after the worst of the pandemic. We wanted to put together an exhibition that could be an example of how to pull yourself back together and get back on the horse so to speak. Krasner was incredibly resilient, and everyone involved in this exhibition has found that inspiring.”

Lee Krasner: A Through Line will present additional programming in collaboration with the exhibition.

Time: 12 to 5 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, through May 19

Cost: Free

Details: www.csulb.edu/carolyn-campagnakleefeld-contemporary-art-museum

Venue: Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach

BIG NICK’S PIZZA

Tradition, variety and fast delivery or takeout—you get it all at Big Nick’s Pizza. The best selection of Italian specialties include hearty calzones, an array of pastas and our amazing selection of signature pizzas. We are taking all safety precautions to protect our diners and staff. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram to stay updated on new developments. Call for fast delivery or to place a pick up order. Hours: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Fri.-Sun. Big Nicks’ Pizza, 1110 N. Gaffey St., San Pedro, 310-732-5800, www.bignickspizza.com

1111 BISTRO AT LA HARBOR COLLEGE

Come experience the French flair at 1111 Bistro at Los Angeles Harbor College.

Open Tuesday and Thursday for lunch from 11:00 a.m. to 1 p.m. starting Feb. 23 through March 2. The Bistro is run by students serving à la cart and 3-course meals.

1111 Bistro on the LA Harbor College campus, 1111 Figueroa Place, Wilmington, culinaryreservations@ lahc.edu

BUONO’S AUTHENTIC PIZZERIA

Family owned and operated since 1965, Buono’s is famous for award-winning brick oven baked pizza.

Buono’s also offers classic Italian dishes and sauces based on tried-andtrue family recipes and hand-selected fresh ingredients. All you can eat Trip to Italy Lunch Buffet is back. Dine-in and patio service, takeout and delivery.

Hours: Sun.-Thurs. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Fri. and Sat. 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Buono’s Pizzeria, corner of 6th and Centre sts., Little Italy San Pedro, 310-547-0655, www.buonospizza.com

HAPPY DINER #1

The Happy Diner #1 in Downtown San Pedro isn’t your average diner. The selections range from Italian- and Mexican-influenced entrées to American Continental. Happy Diner chefs are always creating something new—take your pick of grilled salmon over pasta or tilapia and vegetables prepared any way you like. Dine in or al fresco or call for takeout. Hours: Mon.-Wed. 6 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Thurs.-Sat. 6 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. and Sun. 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Happy Diner #1, 617 S. Centre St., San Pedro, 310-241-0917, www.happydinersp.com

HAPPY DINER #2

Built on the success of Happy Diner #1, Happy Diner #2 offers American favorites like omelets and burgers, fresh salads, plus pasta and Mexican dishes

are served. Order online for delivery or call for pickup.

Hours: Mon. - Sat. 6 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., Sun. 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Happy Diner #2, 1931 N. Gaffey St., San Pedro, 310-935-2933, www.happydinersp.com

HAPPY DELI

The Happy Deli is a small place with a big menu. Food is made-to-order using the freshest ingredients. Breakfast burritos and breakfast sandwiches include a small coffee. For lunch or dinner select from fresh salads, wraps, buffalo wings, cold and hot sandwiches, burgers and dogs. Order online or call for takeout or delivery. Hours: Mon. - Sat. 6 am. to 8 p.m., Sun. 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Happy Deli, 530 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro, 424-364-0319, www. happydelisp.com

KO-RYU RAMEN SAN PEDRO

Serving Japanese dishes and signature ramen bowls. Or order your ramen to fit your taste buds perfectly by customizing your own bowl. Order as many toppings as you want and add just the level of heat to suit your taste. Now serving sake and Sopporo beer. Hours: Mon. - Thurs. 11:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sun. 12 to 9 p.m. Ko-Ryu Ramen, 362 W. 6th St., San Pedro, 310-935-2886, www.koryuramen.com

PINA’S MEXICAN RESTAURANT

Pina’s

Mexican Restaurant serves traditonal Mexican food from Michoacan for breakfast through dinner, and is known for specialty enchiladas, burritos, tacos and mariscos served in a comfortable, casual dining atmosphere. Pina’s now has a full bar and outside dining, so come on by for a real margarita! Party trays for any occasion. Hours: Sun. - Wed. 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. and Thurs. - Sat. 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Pina’s Mexican Restaurant, 1430 W. 25th St., San Pedro, 310-547-4621, www.pinasmexicanrestaurant.com

SAN PEDRO BREWING COMPANY

A micro brewery and American grill, SPBC features handcrafted award-winning ales and lagers served with creative pastas, BBQ, sandwiches, salads and burgers. Order your growlers, house drafts and cocktails to go (with food purchase)!

Open daily 12 to 8 p.m. for indoor or al fresco dining, takeout and delivery.. San Pedro Brewing Company, 331 W. 6th St., San Pedro, 310-831-5663, www.sanpedrobrewing.com

MUSIC

March 2

Logan Hone

An exuberant evening of feelgood saxophone jams along with a few ragtime piano pieces and banjo ditties sprinkled in.

Time: 7 p.m., March 2

Cost: Free

Details: https://tinyurl.com/Eclectic-with-Logan-Hone

Venue: Collage, 731 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro

March 3

Sweet Seasons

Sweet Seasons is a tribute to the legendary Carole King. There have been few singer/songwriters that have been as prolific and impactful as Carole King.

Time: 8 p.m., March 3

Cost: $20

Details: https://tinyurl.com/sweetseasons-carol-King

Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

Teresa James & the Rhythm Tramps

Teresa James and her band move effortlessly from Texas-style grease and blues into Memphis soul or New Orleans-flavored grooves.

Time: 8 p.m., March 3

Cost: $23 and up

Details: https://grandvision.org/ event/teresa-james-the-rhythmtramps

Venue: The Grand Annex, 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro

March 10

Bob Malone

He is known for his high-energy piano rock and blues concerts, his recorded work with Ringo Starr and many others, and as a member of John Fogerty’s touring band.

Time: 8 p.m., March 10

Cost: $25

Details: https://grandvision.org/ event/bob-malone-2

Venue: The Grand Annex, 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro

March 11

DakhaBrakha

Ukrainian quartet DakhaBrakha returns to The Theatre at Ace Hotel following their raucous sold-out 2022 engagement. Meaning “give/

take” in the old Ukrainian language, their name signals the quartet’s unique brand of musical “ethno-chaos.”

Time: 8 p.m., March 11

Cost: $40 to $61

Details: cap.ucla.edu

Venue: The Theatre at Ace Hotel, 929 S. Broadway, Los Angeles

Long Beach Symphony

Long Beach Symphony performs Ana Lara’s Angeles de Llama y Hielo. Mexican composer Ana Lara is among the most notable, versatile, and highly respected classical music composers at work in Mexico today. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. for a 7 p.m. preconcert talk that promises additional insights into the evening’s music.

Time: 8 p.m., March 11

Cost: $32 and up

Details: 562-436-3203

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

Folk Legends

Share an evening of great music from folk legends starring The Kingston Trio and The Limeliters.

the Performing Arts, 18000 Park Plaza Drive, Cerritos

March 12

Tribute to Women in Music

Southern California Brass Consortium partners with the Alliance for Women Film Composers to perform a program featuring works composed exclusively by women. This concert will be moderated by musicologist Dr. Rachel O’Connor and will feature five commissioned world premieres by award-winning film, television, and video game composers.

Time: 4 p.m., March 12

Cost: $10 to $26

Details: https://tinyurl.com/brassconsortium

Venue: El Camino College, Marsee Auditorium, 16007 Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance

Herb Alpert and Lani Hall

Get ready for “happy music made by happy people.” That’s how the New York Times described performances by Herb Alpert and his wife Lani Hall.

Time: 7 p.m., March 12

Cost: $55 to $85

Details: 562-916-8500; cerritoscenter.com

Venue: Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, 18000 Park Plaza Drive, Cerritos

March 17

The Bracken Band St. Paddy’s Party

This show features Irish jigs, misty moor ballads, rowdy rebel songs and traditional folk reels, led by Irish singer/guitarist Marian Tomas Griffin. Lyons Academy of Irish Dance will open the show.

Time: 8 p.m., March 17

Cost: $23 and up

Details: https://grandvision.org/ event/the-bracken-band-st-patricks-day-party/

Venue: The Grand Annex, 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro

ENTERTAINMENT

March 9

Open Mic Night

To perform, sign up at 6:30 p.m.

The first 12 sign-ups are guaranteed to perform, with additional artists as time allows.

Time: 7 to 9 p.m., March 9

Cost: Free

Details: www.grandvision.org/ event/open-mic-night-6

Venue: The Grand Annex, 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro

March 11

Fred Crawford

This is a 90-minute comedy, monologue, pantomime, impressions of actors from Hollywood’s “golden age” and tap dance revue.

Time: 7 p.m., March 11

Cost: $20

Details: https://tinyurl.com/FredCrawford-performs

Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

THEATER

March 2

Kristina Wong Sweatshop

Overlord

On day three of the COVID-19 pandemic, Wong began sewing masks out of old bed sheets and bra straps on her Hello Kitty sewing machine. Soon, she was leading the Auntie Sewing Squad, a work-from-home sweatshop of hundreds of volunteers — including children and her own mother — to fix the U.S. public health care system while in quarantine.

Time: 8 p.m., March 11

Cost: $60 to $90

Details: 562-916-8500; cerritoscenter.com

Venue: Cerritos Center for

Venue: Kirk Douglas Theatre, 9820 Washington Blvd., Culver City

March 10

Amélie the Musical

Amélie is a unique young woman who perceives the world in extraordinary ways. One day, she decides to do random acts of kindness to enrich the lives of the people around her.

Time: 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday and 3 p.m., Sunday March 10 through 26

Cost: $15 to $25

Details: https://tinyurl.com/amelie-the-musical

Venue: El Camino College, Campus Theater, 16007 Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance

All in the Timing

This critically acclaimed evening of comedies will remind you of a polished Pick of the Vine — combining wit, intellect, satire and just plain fun — served as a series of short plays.

Time: 8 p.m., Friday, Saturday 2 p.m., Sunday, March 10 to March 26

Cost: $20 to $30

Details: 310-512-6030 voicemail or text: 424-203-4707; https://tinyurl.com/all-in-the-timing

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

First Thursday ArtWalk

Join the March First Thursday ArtWalk where you can visit dozens of galleries, highlighting local and international artists, dine in the Waterfront Arts District’s many restaurants with patio seating and enjoy live music on the corner of 6th and Mesa by Code 4.

Time: 6 to 9 p.m., March 2

Cost: Free

Details: https://tinyurl.com/firstThursday-ArtWalk-tour

Venue: Downtown San Pedro, 4th St. to 8th St. and Harbor Blvd. to Pacific Ave.

Telling Stories

Various artists along with the Wednesday Gang Quilting Group and the El Camino College Anthropology Student Association use painting, puppetry, recipe sharing, quilt making, culinary performance and photography. Workshops happen daily. ECC’s Anthropology Student Association is creating the title wall: Our Stories: A Self-Portrait of El Camino College.

Time: 2 to 5 p.m., through March 9

Cost: Free

Details: https://tinyurl.com/tellingstories-El-Camino

Time: 8 p.m., Tuesday through Friday, 2 and 8 p.m., Saturday and 1 and 6:30 p.m., Sunday, through March 15

Cost: $30 and up

Details: 213-628-2772; CenterTheatreGroup.org

and Eroded Histories. This ingallery event will explore the art of the exhibition and the science and history surrounding its inspiration, the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

Time: 2 to 3:30 p.m., March 4. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursdays through Saturdays, through March 25

Cost: Free

Details: http://ow.ly/tzly50N2oaj

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

Connective Threads Fiber Art from Southern California

Organized by Palos Verdes Art Center and curated by Carrie Burckle and Jo Lauria, Connective Threads provides a window into what is currently engaging fiber artists, even as this discipline continues to evolve and change

Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., through April 15

Cost: Free

Details: https://pvartcenter.org/ connective-threads

Venue: PVAC, 5504 Crestridge Road, Rancho Palos Verdes

Lee Krasner: A Through Line

The exhibition provides a context to explore important abstract paintings and collages from the 1940s to the early 1960s. The exhibition includes four of the five Krasner works held in the Museum’s Gordon F. Hampton Collection and rarely exhibited works on loan.

Time: 12 to 5 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, through May 19

Cost: Free

Details: www.csulb.edu/carolyncampagna-kleefeld-contemporary-art-museum

Venue: Carolyn Campagna

Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach

Yolanda Gonzalez

The Museum of Latin American Art will be hosting the first in-depth exhibition of the Chicana artist Yolanda Gonzalez, including a variety of sculptures, paintings and prints.

Time: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., through July 30

Cost: Free on Sunday $15 general admission, $10 for students and seniors

Details: https://molaa.org/2023yolanda-gonzalez

Venue: The Museum of Latin American Art, 628 Alamitos Ave., Long Beach

March 11

FILM March 2

LA Harbor International Film Festival

LAHIFF begins with “Read the Book, See the Movie’’ featuring The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. Opening night, March 3, features Young Frankenstein which will kick off the 50th anniversary of the film’s debut. Other programs include New Filmmakers LA and Doc Sundays.

Time: Various, March 2 to 5

Cost: $8 to $10

Details: www.laharborfilmfest. com

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

Tongues Untied

Join a screening of Marlon Riggs’s documentary film Tongues Untied (1989), in conjunction with the exhibition Clifford Prince King: Yesterday and Beyond. Enjoy an introduction by Diana Anselmo, Ph.D., assistant professor of Critical Studies and Q&A following the screening.

Time: 6 to 8 p.m., March 2

Cost: Free

Details: 562-985-4111; https://www.csulb.edu/parkingand-transportation-services

Venue: Cal State University Long Beach, University Theatre, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach

March 4

San Pedro International Film Festival

The Oscar Nominated Shorts Series will be screened at the Terrace Starlight Cinemas with the documentary category March 4 and live action March 11.

Time: Various, March 4 to 17

Cost: $15 and up

Details: www.spiffest.org

Venue: Terrace Starlight Cinemas, 28901 S. Western Ave., Rancho Palos Verdes

March 13

10 Questions for the Dalai Lama

In this 2006 documentary film, filmmaker Rick Ray meets with Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama at his monastery in Dharamsala, India. Ray asks him 10 questions during the course of the interview.

Time: 3 p.m, March 13

Cost: $14 to $16

Details: https://tinyurl. com/4t3k79d8

Venue: El Camino College, Marsee Auditorium,16007 Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance

DANCE

March 10

Memphis Jookin’

Direct from Memphis, Tenn., this show features renowned dance artist and choreographer Lil Buck in an ode to Lil Buck’s hometown and to the singular dance style known as Memphis Jookin’.

Time: 8 p.m., March 10

Cost: $10 to $100

Details: https://www.carpenterarts.org/event/memphis-jookinthe-show

Venue: Carpenter Performing Arts Center, 6200 E. Atherton St., Long Beach

FOOD

March 16

Cost: $5 to $20 and specials

Details: https://cambodianrestaurantweeklb.com

Venue: Various participating locations

COMMUNITY

March 4

Marine Science & Art Workshop

Join an afternoon of science and art where you will learn about seafood with the MMCC education team, covering topics like sustainability, fisheries and endangered marine mammals. Then, AGCC artist-teacher Anna Erneholm will lead a workshop in making origami marine mammals.

Time: 1 to 3 p.m., March 4

Cost: Free Details: https://tinyurl.com/artand-marine-science

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

Outdoor Volunteer Day

Join the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy to volunteer on a breathtaking coastal reserve helping restore wildlife habitat. Students can receive community service hours.

Time: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., March 4 and March 25

Cost: Free Details: https://pvplc.volunteerhub.com/

Venue: Abalone Cove Reserve, 5970 Palos Verdes Dr. South, Rancho Palos Verdes

George F. Canyon Guided Nature Preserve Walk

You will be guided by a trained naturalist to discover a unique variety of wildlife in their canyon habitat with views of the LA Basin. Meet outside on the back deck of the George F. Canyon Nature Center. Parking in the preserve lot. No RSVP required. Rain cancels.

Time: 10:30 a.m., March 4

Cost: Free Details: www.pvplc.org/calendarguided-nature-walks

Venue: George F. Canyon Nature Center, 27305 Palos Verdes Drive East, Rolling Hills Estates

March 12

Bromeliads for the Home and Garden

Jerry Robinson, vice president of Rainforest Flora Inc., a tillandsia, bromeliad and exotic plant nursery, will share his vast knowledge of bromeliads and how they save water.

Time: 1 p.m., March 12

Cost: Free for members and their guests. Non-members with garden admission, $15

Details: southcoastcss.org

Venue: South Coast Botanic Garden, 26300 Crenshaw Blvd., Palos Verdes Peninsula

March 15

Peck Park Canyon Exercise Walks

On the third Wednesday of every month, meet for a walk. Meet in the lower Peck Park Canyon parking lot.

Time: 9 a.m., March 15

Cost: Free Details: https://www.laparks.org/ park/peck

Venue: Peck Park, 560 N. Western Ave., San Pedro

March 17

Venue: El Camino College Art Gallery, 16007 Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance March 4

Rock Records of the Future

Join a conversation with Richard Turner, Michael Davis and Paul Harris, the artists of Uplifting Tales

Unforgotten:

The Art of JD Smith

The USS Iowa reopens its art gallery, Alfa Romeo Tango to present paintings by LA-based artist and Navy veteran J.D. Smith.

Time: 5 to 8 p.m., March 11

Cost: Free

Details: https://tinyurl.com/ussiowa-museum-exhibit

Venue: USS Iowa Museum, 250 S. Harbor Blvd., San Pedro

Long Beach Cambodian Restaurant Week

This event is an opportunity to support local Cambodia Town while food lovers get to eat, drink and try new places. Featured eateries will offer a Long Beach Cambodian restaurant week special or offer feature $5, $10, $15 and $20 menus at participating Cambodian restaurants and food businesses across Long Beach.

Time: March 16 through March 23

Collected Treasures Estate Sale

You will find beautiful linens, China, silver, fine and costume jewelry at Collected Treasures, a curated collection of special items at special prices.

Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., March 17 and 18

Cost: Free

Details: https://pvartcenter.org

Venue: Palos Verdes Art Center, 5504 Crestridge Rd., Rancho Palos Verdes

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

NAME STATEMENT

File No. 2023-007074

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Carberry Family Trust, 1224 Cota Ave., Torrance, CA 90501, County of Los Angeles

Registered owner(s): April Carberry 1224 Cota Ave., Torrance, CA 90501; California. This business is conducted by: an Individual

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). S/ April Carberry

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on January 11, 2022 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 expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner.

A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. Effective January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business Name Statement must be accompanied by the Affidavit of Identity form. 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 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). 1/19, 2/02, 2/16, 3/2/23

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

File No. 2023-023621

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Ride with Paris, 2051 Elberon Street, Rancho Palos, CA 90275, County of Los Angeles

Registered owner(s): Paris Thomas, 2051 Elberon Street, Rancho Palos, CA 90275; California. This business is conducted by: an individual

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 01/2010 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). S/ Paris Thomas,

Individual

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on February 1, 2023

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 expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner.

A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. Effective January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business Name Statement must be accompanied by the Affidavit of Identity form. 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 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). 2/02, 2/16, 3/02, 03/16/23

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

Case No. 23LBCP00010

Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles

Petition of: JULIE ANNE DUENAS

TO ALL INTERESTED PER-

SONS:

Petitioner JULIE ANNE DUE-

NAS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows:

JULIE ANNE DUENAS to JULIE ANNE SOLA-DUENAS

The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a

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ACROSS

1. Andruw Jones and Mike Trout, for two (abbr.)

4. “Very much yes,” in the Yucatan

8. Salon stuff

14. Lab tubes for measurement

16. Yellow-flowered plant used medicinally

17. Upscale deli section, maybe

18. The sweet stuff

19. French schools

20. Salamander added to Minecraft in 2021

21. Class

22. “Down on the Corner” band, briefly

24. Pick up

25. Qty.

26. Some barn noises

28. They involve a lot of prediction

35. Sweepers and others

37. Panel show featuring David Mitchell and Lee Mack

38. Like some calculators

39. Aftermath Records founder, familiarly

40. Type of bath salts

45. Grandma, in Gloucester

46. Certain steakhouse orders

48. Festival purchase with perks

50. Hypothetical words

52. Cosmo cohort

53. Stoop

55. “Save it!”

56. Pat to the max

57. Takes a turn?

58. Treaty co-signer

59. ___-Julie, Que.

DOWN

1. Navy noncom

2. 1966 Tom and Jerry short involving a goldfish

3. Folded snack with some heat

4. Ancient Roman burial stone

5. Words after let or could

6. Extinct marine arthropods

7. Neighbor of Leb.

8. Short-haired cat breed

9. Cookies that have a gluten-free variety

10. Phil, to Will, on TV

11. Delay, in a way

12. Emulates Al Jarreau

13. Three-time Grammy winner

Steve

15. Frozen meal brand touting car-

bon neutrality

20. Substratal water source

21. Coping mechanisms?

23. It surpassed the Beetle in 1997 as best-selling

26. Zebra groups

27. One who snoops

29. Sch. of the Horned Frogs

30. Norse underworld goddess

31. First National Leaguer with 500 homers

32. Summer Olympics host after London

33. December donation events

34. Zero-interest deal?

36. Goes to court

40. Set consisting of every inte-

ger doubled

41. First in a series

42. Onrush

43. Say what you think

44. Wayne, e.g.

46. Offered for feedback

47. First leg in a journey, maybe

49. Finalizes, with “up”

51. Hard water?

53. Queens hub, on tix

54. Travel plan abbr.

“Free Throw”--throwing a themeless puzzle out there.

hearing.

Notice of Hearing:

Date: 02-24-23, Time: 8:30 am, Dept.: 27

The address of the court is 275 Magnolia Ave., Long Beach, Ca 90802

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Daily Journal and RLn.

Date January 13, 2023

David W. Slayton Judge of the Superior Court 1/19, 1/26, 2/2, 2/16/23

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

NAME STATEMENT

File No. 2023-033144

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Integrity Professionals Moving & Art Installations, 25410 Narbonne Ave., Lomita, CA 90717, County of Los Angeles

Registered owner(s): James Eagle Manos, 25410 Narbonne Ave., Lomita, CA 90717; California. This business is conducted by: an individual

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 01/2010 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). S/ James Eagle Manos, Individual

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on February 13, 2023

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 expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner.

LEGAL NOTICES & DBAs

Business Name Statement must be accompanied by the Affidavit of Identity form. 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 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). 3/02/23, 03/16/23, 03/30/23, 03/13/23

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

File No. 2023-043914

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Cheap Alternatives, 25410 Narbonne Ave., Lomita, CA 90717, County of Los Angeles, 2.) Cheap Vintage, 3.)Cheap Thrift, 4.) Cheap Furniture, 5.) La Ronde Coop 6.) Greenwood Co 7.) J.R.J. Greenwood

Registered owner(s):The Greenverd Company, 25410 Narbonne Ave., Lomita, CA 90717; California. This business is conducted by: a Corporation

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 01/2010 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). S/ Russell Anthony Greenwood, President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on February 13, 2023

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 expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. Effective January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business Name Statement must be accompanied by the Affidavit of Identity form. The filing of this

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

NAME STATEMENT File No. 2023-031715

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Cryptospace, 1379 Park Western Dr., San Pedro, CA 90732, County of Los Angeles,

2.) Cryptospace

Registered owner(s):Huerta Consulting Services LLC, 1379 Park Western Dr., San Pedro, CA 90732; California. This business is conducted by: a Limited Liability Company

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 01/2010 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)). S/Princess Nava, Manager

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on February 10, 2023

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 expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner.

A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. Effective January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business Name Statement must be accompanied by the Affidavit of Identity form. 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 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). 3/02/23, 03/16/23, 03/30/23, 03/13/23

CITY OF LOS ANGELES ENVIRONMENTAL NOTICES

Notice is hereby given to the general public of the availability for public review and comment on the following Environmental document: Notice of Preparation (NOP) and Initial Study (IS) for the Berths 148-151 (Phillips 66) Marine Oil Terminal and Wharf Improvement Project. This publication is intended to serve as the first step in the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) process.

The Proposed Project is located at the foot of ``A`` Street, Wilmington, Council District 15. The primary objective of the proposed Project is to ensure that the Phillips 66 marine oil terminal at Berths 148-151 complies with Marine Oil Terminal Engineering and Maintenance Standards (MOTEMS) to protect public health, safety, and the environment. The timber wharf at Berths 150-151 would be replaced with a new concrete wharf and associated equipment to comply with MOTEMS seismic and safety standards. The proposed Project also includes temporary improvements at Berths 148-149 that would allow these berths to continue to be utilized while the Berths 150-151 are being reconstructed, installation or modification of commodities transfer facilities and supporting infrastructure in the backlands of Berths 148151; shoreline reinforcement improvements; and provisions for operation of Berths148-149 for non-MOT uses. The proposed Project also includes consideration of a new 20-year entitlement (with two potential 10-year additional options) to Phillips 66 for continued operations at Berths 148151. The NOP/IS includes a discussion of the Proposed Project’s potential effects on the existing environment, and identification of analysis to be expanded in the forthcoming Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) to reduce potential impacts as required under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). A virtual public meeting for the

Project will be held on March 14, 2023 at 5pm. Documents and information on the virtual public meeting are available on the Port of Los Angeles’ website at: https://www.portoflosangeles.org under the Environment tab beginning February 23, 2023. A copy of the document is also available for public review at the Harbor Department Environmental Management Division (EMD) located at 425 S. Palos Verdes Street, San

Pedro. Please send your request to ceqacommments@portla. org or call (310) 732-3615 to schedule an appointment to pick up a copy. Comments on the NOP/IS should be submitted in writing prior to the end of the 45-day public review period and must be postmarked by April 10, 2023. Please submit written comments to: Christopher Cannon, Director City of Los Angeles Harbor Department

Fox in the Hen House

very same corrupt interests in Washington that pushed the Iraq War under false pretenses are now pushing the lie of a domestic white terror,” as if he himself hadn’t pushed the Iraq War under false pretenses.

But Carlson himself has been a promoter of domestic white terror. And it’s no lie: The most recent annual report on murder and extremism in the U.S. from the Anti-Defamation league, released on Feb. 22, reported that “domestic extremists killed at least 25 people” and “All the extremist-related murders in 2022 were committed by right-wing extremists of various kinds,” with 21 linked to white supremacists.

Now McCarthy has handed him the most sensitive inside information about the Jan. 6 attack, so that he can manufacture an even slicker false narrative than the one he did in 2021.

Two long-time paid contributors, Jonah Goldberg and Steve Hayes, quit Fox in protest of Patriot Purge, calling it a collection of incoherent conspiracy-mongering, which is “riddled with factual inaccuracies, half-truths, deceptive imagery and damning omissions,” and warning of Carlson’s danger. “If a person with such a platform shares such misinformation loud enough and long enough, there are Americans who will believe — and act upon — it,” they wrote. “This isn’t theoretical. This is what actually happened on January 6, 2021.”

Now McCarthy has handed him the most sensitive inside information about

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the Jan. 6 attack, so that he can manufacture an even slicker false narrative than the one he did in 2021.

On Feb. 24, two groups of news organizations wrote to McCarthy, requesting he actually provide the transparent access he touted.

Fox’s Election Lies Revealed

“Sydney Powell is lying.” That quote from Carlson on Nov. 16, 2020 is the very first line in Dominion Voting System’s motion for summary judgment in its $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox. Powell was then the leading lawyer pushing baseless voter fraud claims, and Carlson had written privately three days earlier “that Trump needed to concede and agreed that ‘there wasn’t enough fraud to change the outcome’ of the election,” the motion went on to say.

The motivation was fear of losing its audience base to more extremist alternatives, after Fox’s decision desk was the first to call Arizona for Biden on Nov. 4 and then followed other networks in declaring that Biden had won on Nov. 7, once the Pennsylvania outcome was clear. “Do the executives understand how much credibility and trust we’ve lost with our audience?” Carlson texted that day. “We’re playing with fire, for real ... an alternative like Newsmax could be devastating to us.”

“If responsible journalism by a handful of Fox people resulted in a company crisis, that means the company is not a news company — because giving truthful news actually was a big problem,” said NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen on MSNBC.

Rather than a news company, “I see Fox as the commercial wing of the MAGA movement that has overtaken the Republican party. And what it makes is resentment news — who to resent, what’s new and different to resent,” Rosen said. “That kind of product, resentment news, can also become a source of power,” he added. “Both the Republican party and Fox News have had to learn that this power of resentment can be turned against them.”

With that kind of motivation still driving them, neither Carlson, nor anyone else at Fox is about to produce a report on Jan. 6 that casts the insurrectionists in a bad light. They just can’t afford to tell their audience the truth.

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