By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor “First of all, I do not, I never have, supported defund the police,” congresswoman and mayoral candidate Karen Bass said in a meet-and-greet event at Sirens Java & Tea in San Pedro on Aug. 6, responding to rumors being circulated against her in her race against former Republican and billionaire developer Rick Caruso.
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“I have been on record on TV, radio, print, hundreds of times, because, when the Speaker
“I don’t believe in one size fits all. But what I do believe is that if you define what you want, it’s my job as mayor to deliver it. And I do believe that the number one job of the mayor is to keep the city safe.”
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— Rep. Karen Bass. candidate for LA Mayor On Aug. 9, the Los Angeles City Council voted 11-3 to ban homeless people from sitting or lying within 500 feet of schools or daycares within the city. Council members Mike Bonin, Marqueece HarrisDawson and Nithya Raman voted against the motion. The council’s vote expanded section 41.18 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code, which already allowed the city to ban homeless people from within 500 to 1,000 feet of certain places, such as schools, overpass es or homeless shelters. However, previously each site needed majority board approval before the homeless could be banned, and it required several steps, such as outreach and signs. Not only does the council’s expansion of 41.18 not require any more signs, it will cover about 20% of the city, according to a map released by Kenneth Mejia, a candidate for city controller. A large group of protestors came to city hall on the day of the vote, and one was arrested after jump ing over the barrier and seemingly going towards the council members. Before this, multiple public speak ers spoke out against the expansion of 41.18. After the po lice grabbed the protestor who went over the border, many protestors chanted, “We won’t go.” Council President Nury Martinez declared a recess, and by the time the council came back, the Los Angeles Police Department had declared the protestors an unlawful assembly. The room was clear, and the council took no more public comment. “We believe that the majority of Angelenos do not support a policy like this,” said Robin Peterson, a member of Services Not Sweeps, who was present at the meeting. “As much as people are outspoken and want to say that criminalization and arresting homelessness is important for the city, we know that it’s actually an ineffective, expensive and of course inhumane policy.”OnMay 31, Alberto M. Carvalho, the new superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District appeared before the city council in support of 41.18. “I think there is a balance to be struck between compas sionate actions towards the unhoused and homeless in our community, but also balancing that out against the protective City Council Bans Homelessness Near Schools
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It’s a familiar situation for Bass who, as a Black woman — the first ever to lead a state leg islature — has a long history of being misjudged, and surprising those who misjudge Despiteher. mas sively outspend ing her, Caruso still seems un likely to beat her in November, but he has shifted the debate, ala Don ald Trump, back into the terri tory of “Ameri can carnage” with a focus claimsandhomelessnessoncrime,andakinto, “I alone can fix it,” leaving Bass with a lot of factchecking and debunking to do. But in the process, some crucial possibilities for real progress may be getting lost — from crimi nal justice reform to housing and homelessness to climate justice and resilience, and more.
Rep. Karen Bass and billionaire Rick Caruso, the two candidates for mayor of the City of Los Angeles.
A health-care worker turned community or ganizer, Bass was first elected to California As sembly in her early 50s, and became Speaker in 2008. Her record was characterized by engaging with and empowering community input on the one hand — initiating the process that produced the first ever “State of Black California” report, for example — and engaging in difficult nego tiations with political opponents on the other — receiving the 2010 “Profiles in Courage” award along other legislative leaders for “standing up to the extraordinary constituent and party pres sure they faced while working with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to address California’s severe financial crisis.” Her willingness to work with anyone was the common factor in both sides of this record — and even extends to those attack ing her now.
On Aug. 13, Central San Pedro Neighbor hood Council President Lou Caravella resigned as both president and board member. This came after a censure motion against him, and a vote from the board asking him to step down in July. The board will likely elect a new president at its September meeting. “I did not join a Neighborhood Council to undermine it or to compromise my own prin ciples by helping others undermine ethics and law,” Caravella wrote in his resignation letter. “Members of this Board have retaliated against me for trying to uphold Bylaws & Standing Rules and for refusing to violate the law at their request. Since these illicit patterns show no sign of significantly abating, and since it is clear that I cannot serve as the Board wishes without violat ing laws and other regulations, I cannot in good conscience and will not continue to serve as its president.”OnJuly 28, the board held a special meeting where it voted 13-1 asking that Caravella resign. Board member Eugenia Bulanova voted against the motion. Caravella was not present. “Mr. Caravella has on several occasions pub licly demeaned and disparaged other CeSPNC members,” the board’s motion states. “Addi tionally, Mr. Caravella has disseminated written statements to public officials wholly inappropri ate, regardless of whether those written state ments were made as a private citizen or in his capacity as CeSPNC President.”
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The Department of Mental Health or DMH has launched the new nationwide 988 Suicide Crisis and Lifeline phone number for Los Angeles County residents. Calls will be handled by Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services, in collaboration with DMH’s helpline staff to provide appropriate information, resources, and referrals. Residents can access this lifesaving service by calling or texting 988, or via online chat on their information website at, https://tinyurl.com/5bhjfwdb Details: DMH 24/7 Helpline at 800- 854-7771
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The board’s meeting came a few weeks af ter board member James Preston Allen, the pub lisher of this newspaper and the port committee chair, submitted a motion to the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment, or DONE, to censure Caravella on July 12. Censuring means formally disapproving of a person’s actions, and the motion lists several complaints, including ha rassing and slandering board members and im properly running meetings. Caravella submitted a grievance against the board prior to Allen sub mitting the censure, and in his resignation letter, Caravella said that the city’s Regional Grievance Panel unanimously sustained the grievance. Prior to the board’s meeting asking Caravella to step down, Gibson Nyambura, a chief equity officer with DONE, reached out to the board to tell them not to discuss the motion. “The predisposition of any board member when a grievance is filed against the board can be deemed as retaliation or bullying as it was filed by a board member,” Nyambura wrote. However, some have questioned the timing of his“Itgrievance.justseems like he’s got this manipula tion going with DONE, or whatever, that he’s a victim of retaliation,” Sipivy said at the special meeting. “In fact, I’m starting to wonder if the grievance was filed because he could sense this wasGarlandcoming.”had similar sentiments, saying the censure was in motion beforehand. “All of the evidence, supporting documents, predate the grievance by a longshot,” Garland said. “So, I don’t agree that this censure was writ ten in response to the grievance, I think it stands on its own merits.” The final actions of the council and Cara vella’s resignation come after a series of disputes with DONE over placing letters of admonish ment against this president on the monthly agen da. Several people on and off this council have commented that DONE has over-reached its au thority in its meddling of this matter.
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Board member Linda Alexander criticized the emails that Caravella sent when she spoke at the meeting, saying that they consisted of inflam matory and unfounded accusations. Board member Anya Sipivy expressed her own concerns with Caravella’s emails. “All the emails that I was sent for my small business in this neighborhood that were defama tory and slanderous, I wasn’t given a voice,” Sipivy said. “I had to go through another method to make sure other people saw what was being said and what was being sent back. I totally have no confidence, I don’t feel safe around this per son. These rantings are of someone who is un well.”Bulanova, the only board member who voted against the motion, said she had not observed any misconduct from Caravella. “It seemed to me that he’s been provoked over and over and over again, for many, many months, maybe years even,” Bulanova said. Board member Matt Garland said Caravella has been a dysfunctional president. Records show that he is the fifth central presi dent not to finish a full term. “Our council has been unable to serve our community for many, many months,” Garland said. “The efforts of this board have been out right thwarted and undermined and sabotaged.”
“Our council has been unable to serve our community for many, many months. The efforts of this board have been outright thwarted and undermined and sabotaged.”
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Los Serenos de Point Vicente is hosting new docent training classes. Los Serenos de Point Vicente is in search of adults who are eager to learn about the local geology, flora and fauna, and history, and share their knowledge with museumTraineesvisitors.meet at the PVIC one day a week for approximately 20 weeks to learn about numerous subjects through classroom lectures and onsite walks. After training, docents commit to 72 volunteer hours per year for a minimum of two years. Applicants to the docent-training program must be at least 18 years old. Time: 12:30 p.m., Sept. 14 Cost: Free Details: htm#docenthttp://losserenos.org/member.
Artist Registry: Muralist Technical Assistance Workshop Learn about the Public Mural Program and the Arts Council’s Artist Registry. $135,000 has been allocated to support a public mural program, for which the Departments of Public Works and Parks, Recreation, and Marine have created a list of public facilities citywide that will be made available to artists for mural artwork. Time: 6 p.m., Aug. 22 Cost: Free Details: RSVP, https://tinyurl.com/muralist-techassist Venue: Zoom The Cambodian American Cultural Center Community Visioning and Feasibility Plan Kickoff The City of Long Beach and Sixth District Councilwoman Suely Saro, in coordination with the United Cambodian Community or UCC, Lord Cultural Resources, City Fabrick, and Community Steering Committee, is hosting a community visioning event for the Cambodian American Cultural Center or CACC. The event will include cultural performances, food, an outreach survey and resource tables. Community members are encouraged to attend to learn more about the development of the upcoming cultural center and participate in the community engagement process. Time: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Aug. 20 Cost: Free Details: cambodian-american-cultural-center/https://longbeach.gov/iteam/priorities/ Venue: Douglas MacArthur Park, 1321 East Anaheim St., Long Beach Citizenship Workshop Join Centro Cha’s citizen workshop. USCIS filing fee assistance is available to those seeking citizenship. Time: 2 to 5 p.m., Aug. 26 Cost: Free Details: RSVP, 562-612-4180 Venue: Centro Cha Inc., 1633 Long Beach Blvd., Long Beach Rep. Nanette Barragán’s 5th Annual Senior Briefing and Luncheon Join the annual senior briefing and luncheon at the Carson Community Center on Aug. 23. There will be a free hot meal available, as well as wellness checks, COVID-19 vaccines and other highlights. Plus, an update on the congresswoman’s work that she is doing in Washington, D.C. Details: RSVP, 310-831-1799; https://tinyurl. com/4389pnfb
Time: 10 a.m. to 11:15 a.m, and 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m., Aug. 20 Cost: Free Details: One-day, multi-session event: https:// tinyurl.com/steam-educators Venue: Shoreline Village, 429 Shoreline Village Drive, Long Beach LA County Youth Climate Commission Seeks Youth Leaders The County of Los Angeles issued a call for young adults to serve on its inaugural Youth Climate Commission. The county is seeking 25 youth leaders who have a commitment to civic action that will create greater resilience in their communities.TheBoard of Supervisors adopted an ordinance to create the commission to inform, recommend, and advise on county goals, plans, actions and policies related to climate change mitigation and resilience. The panel aims to amplify the perspectives and priorities of local youth, since they will be the most dramatically impacted by the ongoing climate impact during their lifetime.
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Peterson said that if someone calls a council member’s office and says they are not happy with a homeless person near them, then the council member can have the police move that person. She pointed out that since this version of the law does not have signs, it can be difficult for people to know if they are within the boundary.
Councilman Mike Bonin complained about the lack of a map detailing which areas would be off-limits.“Wehave not done any study of how compre hensive and how impactful this will be,” Bonin said. “We don’t have a list of the daycare centers that will be impacted, or of the independent or privateBoninschools.”saidthe motion would open the city to lawsuits.“Every time we discuss this issue, it is a waste of time and energy and attention,” Bonin said. “And by approving this ordinance, you are guaranteeing you are going to be back into conversations over lawsuits and settlements and what the city can and cannot do. And that is what the time and money and energy and the focus will be. And you are going to be discussing 41.18 like a nightmare Groundhog Day for years and years to come.”
The commission’s recommendations will further the ongoing implementation of the county sustainability plan, the most ambitious regional sustainability blueprint in the nation. Among its 159 action items is creating a fossil fuel-free LA. County by Application2050.materials are available on the website and must be submitted by Sept. 15. Interested applicants must be age 18 by Oct. 1. Details: https://tinyurl.com/myb6vvh7
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Members of the public protest the passing of a law that will ban homeless people near schools at the Aug. 9 meeting of the Los Angeles City Council. p. 1] [See City Council, p. 4]
Buscaino, a former LAPD officer, has already tried to have the homeless banned from hundreds of sites within CD 15. He claimed that 41.18 has saved lives in his district, but did not provide any details as to how. “This will pass,” Buscaino said. “It is now up to us to hold the people in this building account able for enforcing 41.18 at our school sites.”
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However, Peterson said the city is not capa ble of enforcing anti-camping laws at the sites that already have signage. She said she passes by a large encampment with a 41.18 sign on her way to work every day. “What they’re doing is kind of a false prom ise about the rhetoric that they’re sharing, that this will take folks off the streets … provide safety, all that stuff is really just pomp and cir cumstance honestly,” Peterson said. “What it will do and what this does allow, is it allows the city council and LAPD to enforce sites and arrest people who are unhoused when they feel like it.”
Peterson said that Project Roomkey, a county program designed to house homeless people in hotel rooms, is coming to an end because funding is drying up, which means that more people will be on the street. “Our eviction moratorium is ending at some point soon,” Peterson said. “That’s been one of the biggest causes of homelessness every year.”
measures we must take to ensure that students have a safe passage that’s undisturbed, a clean passage, to schools,” Carvalho said. Councilman Joe Buscaino said he has heard support for the motion from many schools in Council District 15. His wife, Geralyn, is a teach er in“ThisLAUSD.isan issue of restoring order and safety among our most precious sites in the City of Los Angeles, our school sites,” Buscaino said. “Our students are already traumatized with socioeco nomic issues. Let alone they should not be ex posed to sex acts, they should not be exposed to open drug use, they should not be exposed to psychotic behavior that’s taking place next to our school yards.”
Peterson said that Services Not Sweeps has called the council offices and tried to convince Venue: Palos Verdes Interpretive Center, 31501 Palos Verdes Dr. West, Rancho Palos Verdes Environmental Justice Conference Registration is Open This virtual conference is an opportunity to engage with public agencies, environmental justice and health-based organizations, community members, academia, businesses and other stakeholders to learn about and collaborate on strategies to reduce air pollution. Spanish interpretation will be provided. For more information, email EJCP@aqmd.gov.
Time: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., Sept. 14 Cost: Free Details: https://tinyurl.com/2xa7wj5f Venue: Online STEAM Educators Forum Teachers, students, coaches, teaching artists, makerspace organizers and project owners are invited to join the monthly introduction to STEAM projects and programs. If you are a STEAM educator and/or project owner and would like to present at the monthly educators’ forum, please join in to share your project. Registration for the event is limited.
This was clearly an exaggeration by Marti nez, as all of the protestors who entered the coun cil chambers had to be screened and checked for weapons. No one broke into the council; they were let in and spoke at the very limited public comment on the agenda. Peterson said her coalition has tried to set up meetings with Martinez multiple times with no response.“They complain about us coming down and being angry,” Peterson said. “But I think we have a right to be angry.” City Council
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them to change their minds. “Our coalition has sent thousands of emails to city council members,” Peterson said. “We ask for meetings, and we ask for conversations all the time.”Council President Martinez compared the protestor who jumped over the barrier to the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021. In a press release about previous disruptions by protestors, Coun cilman Paul Koretz described them as “anti-dem ocratic anarchists.”
If approved, this project is set to officially begin in January 2023, and is expected to take between three and six years to complete. Other changes in local transit may be attrib uted to the LA City-Metro Transportation Com munication Network (TCN). Though separate, the line between the two programs is blurry, as both share similarities. According to the Metro website, the TCN program aims to “create a network of digital display structures with intel ligent technology” through the removal and re placement of approximately 200 static displays. Both STAP and the TCN program have raised concerns from locals. Each program regards the installation and usage of digital advertising and signage on our streets. During a July 18 meeting, the Coastal San Pe dro Neighborhood Council noted its concern over the STAP program, voicing distress over various aspects of the project, especially the collection of individuals’ personal data, misrepresentation to the public, and potential environmental impli cations, among others. In compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act, the city has prepared a Mitigated Negative Declaration in place of an environmental impact report for STAP. When asked directly about the program’s potential effects on light pollution, increased en ergy consumption and impacts on wildlife, Paul Gomez, a public relations representative for the Department of Public Works, responded with the following on behalf of Streets LA: STAP’s Request for Proposals and re sulting negotiated contract with Tranzito has numerous controls and requirements to help the overall program address and mitigate the environmental effects of STAP elements … Examples include limitations on the maximum and minimum illumination levels of STAP elements, a requirement that all lighting and displays be fully adjustable in relation to ambient light and accountable to a real time content management system, energy efficiency requirements, size limita tions on media displays, and compliance with the City’s draft sign ordinance. StreetsLA did not provide any other specifics on these limitations and regulations. Accusations of increased energy consumption due to STAP elements were overlooked in the response from StreetsLA as well, claiming that these factors will be offset through the encouragement and facilitation of transit use over single occupancy vehicles, thus reducing fossil fuel consumption and related emissions over time. As previously mentioned, a main concern of the Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Coun cil has concerned the collection of personal data
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Bus riders are set to see new changes at their local transit stops. Some of these changes can be attributed to the new Sidewalk and Transit Ame nities Program (STAP), a program conducted through the Bureau of Street Services, Streets LA, to replace the city’s current bus stops. If you’ve sat on a bus stop in Los Angeles in the past 40 years, chances are that it was a prod uct of the former provider of the Coordinated Street Furniture Program, OUTFRONT Decaux Street Furniture, LLC. The long-lasting contract between the former street furniture provider and the city expires in late 2022, allowing outside companies the opportunity to take its place. In July of 2021, StreetsLA hosted a demon stration with the intention of what one might as sume to be competition-fueled innovation, dur ing which the two frontrunners being considered for the street furniture program, OUTFRONT Decaux and Tranzito, had the chance to show case new modernized designs. StreetsLA has confirmed that a new contract between the city and Tranzito has been negotiated and is currently awaiting approval by Los Angeles City Council.
My Recycled Life: Doll Doctoring
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By Lyn Jensen, Columnist
People who repair dolls are called doll doctors, and their businesses are called doll hospitals. I needed one because my mother left behind a collection of several dolls and toys from her childhood, ones that she’d kept and treasured all her life, until her dementia made their upkeep impossible and deterioration set in. I was left with the difficult decision to either trash, sell the parts or for somebody else to restore, repair or keep the dolls. Doll collecting fluctuates in popularity, and right now the market is depressed. Any money put into repair is a risky investment I may not get back. For three of the dolls that has proved to be no problem. A Lone Ranger doll, made perhaps in 1937 and still in good condition, got quickly sold at an estate sale. Two little rag Dutch dolls have no need for repair, and are on display in a glass case in the living room. They haven’t sold yet but somebody somewhere will likely find them of interest. Two beautiful antique baby-girl dolls, one blonde, one brunette, were crammed in plastic bags in the back of a cramped closet, and were literally falling apart. I could’ve trashed them— perhaps given them a decent burial—but after attempts to sell the parts went nowhere, my heart said, restore them. I searched online and found, in all of Southern California, one woman who restores antique dolls and stuffed toys, and she’s been putting the dolls (and one shabby stuffed toy) back together. Restoration of the blonde doll has been fairly simple. She’s a “composition” doll made of a material that predates plastic, and her parts are strung together like a marionette. New strings, some minor touch-up and cleaning, and she’s back to her old self. Work on the brunette doll, made in Germany, is turning out more bittersweet. She’s got a bisque head and arms, but her kidskin body is stuffed with sawdust that’s pouring out her seams, and the leather is suffering dry rot. The doll doctor has been able to get the body stabilized, but she warns me, the doll will eventually need a whole new body, and that’s going to break my budget. The head, though, with its big brown eyes and little white teeth, and its wig of human hair, are all back together, and re-attached to the body and arms. This Curly Locks girl will be able to join her Dutch doll friends in the glass display case in the living room, until either I find a buyer or her repaired body gives out again, and I have to make another decision.
Someone accused me of “being prejudiced” the other day and I admitted that I am. I have a prejudice against phony patriots, liars and crooks I told them. Then I added they come in all shapes, colors and genders. I particularly can’t stand it when liars try gaslighting me by accusing me of what they themselves are guilty of doing. There’s plenty of this going around, inspired by the twice impeached, sore loser, ex-president who just had his mansion raided in Palm Beach, Florida by the FBI. It couldn’t have happened to a more deserving individual-one. Once again, he’s putting on the victim mask calling this latest investigation another “witch hunt” like he’s done so many times before. The echoes of “lock her up” seem to be resonating in the halls of justice with a gender modification. One needs to contemplate whether this time somebody or anybody will get to the bottom of all his misdeeds, i.e., Russia stealing the Democrat’s data in 2016; the Ukraine Just do me a favor before we sell you arms deal; or “just find me the votes in Georgia”? Or his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection along with the rest of his alleged financial crimes. In the background I keep hearing the refrain from the song that Madonna made popular, Don’t Cry for Me Argentina. Don’t pull the Eva Perón act on us Don. She was the wife of a fascist dictator. So yes, I have my prejudices about leaders who wrap themselves in the flag, carrying the Bible and then sell out our country. The term is traitor. I have no patience for the “it’s-bothsides” argument, that all politicians are corrupt, or Joe Biden is just as bad as him. You don’t and cost more than the Mueller investigation and Hillary Clinton testified without taking the fifth. Instead, she calmly answered every question and they found nothing.The Republicans started the political vengeance and theatrical power plays and cannot stand it when the tables are turned. The American people want to actually see someone be held to account and go to jail. Then there’s this report from the New York Times that Donald Trump sent an ally with access to the Justice Department to “pass along a message” to Attorney General Merrick Garland that “the country is on fire” and Trump is willing to act “to reduce the heat.” The unusual attempt to secretly back-channel with the DOJ, after Trump’s home was searched and as he is the subject of multiple investigations. This comes amidst “a spike in threats” to police identified by FBI director Christopher Wray, and several alarming incidents and arrests and a call for “civil war” by his followers. Clearly the ex-president is still trying to bully his way out of being indicted by any means possible. And the Republican backlash against the FBI continues even as this report gets buried in the Onnews.the morning of July 29, the FBI conducted raids at multiple locations, including the Uhuru House in St. Petersburg, Florida, the private residence of Omali Yeshitela, founder African People’s Socialist Party, in St. Louis, Missouri, as well as the Uhuru Solidarity Center, also in St. Louis. The FBI employed flashbang grenades and handcuffed Yeshitela and his wife while the house was raided. The FBI says that the raids are connected to the federal indictment of a Russian man, Aleksandr Ionov, alleging that he has been working to spread “Russian propaganda” in the UnitedNowStates.just think for a moment the contrast between that raid and the raid on Trump’s Mara-Lago and it being called an “unprecedented assault” — an assault in which no one was arrested and the FBI didn’t use flash bang grenades. I’m surprised that in the later case the agents weren’t offered coffee and donuts by the hotel staff. On Monday, the DOJ returned the confiscated passports, which is probably a bad idea, for once it looks imminent that he’s going to be convicted, I fully expect him to flee to Russia, a country with no extradition treaty. This will be the one and only get to plead innocent just because you say somebody else did the same thing. That’s just not the way our justice system works. And for those who complain about the legal system being used against a sitting president, Bill Clinton was investigated over a bad real estate deal by the Republicans. He ended up getting impeached for lying about receiving a blow job in the Oval Office. So much for high crimes and misdemeanors–that was more of a low blow. Trump gets impeached for attempting to blackmail a foreign leader into slandering a political rival and Republicans throw a fit and deny witnesses! He gets impeached again over Jan. 6 and it’s another “witch hunt.” There were seven Benghazi hearings that lasted longer action he takes that could possibly Make America Great Again, rid us of this false patriot or at least give us all a collective sigh of relief. Still, the great hypocrisy about this is all of the Republicans who in the past supported the use of force against Black Lives Matter protests that called for “defunding the police” but who now are chanting the refrain “defund the FBI.” Yeah, hypocrisy is up there on my list of prejudices too.
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It’s The Ronald Reagan Memorial Competition: which Republican can make the rich richer and the poor poorer the fastest? This week, Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin wants to one-up Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida in this perpetual GOP contest over who can most effectively screw working people.Johnson wants Congress to vote every year whether or not to continue funding both Social Security and Medicare, while Scott says it should only be every five years. On top of that, in a true tribute to Saint Ronny, they’re competing for how to most aggressively raise income taxes on working-class people, and howYouquickly.may remember Rick Scott as the guy who ran the company convicted of the largest Medicare fraud in the history of America, who then took his money and ran for governor of Florida, where he prevented the state from expanding Medicaid for low-income Floridians. Scott is the second-richest guy in the Senate and, true to form, he’s now echoing the sentiments of the richest guy in the Senate, Mitt Romney. “There are 47% who are with him,” Romney said of Barack Obama voters back in 2012, “who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. These are people who pay no income tax.” Most low-income working people in America actually pay a higher percentage of their income as taxes than do many billionaires and multimulti-millionaires. Working people pay Social Security taxes, Medicare taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, and other taxes in the form of fees for everything,
I keep hearing the refrain from Evita — the song made popular by Madonna — Don’t Cry for Me Argentina By James Preston Allen, Publisher
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By Thom Hartmann
How to Stop the GOP From Killing Medicare, Social Security, and Us
Written Comment Period and Comment Submittal CARB will hear about the contents of the CERP and con sider staff’s recommendations for board action contained in the South Los Angeles commu nity emissions reduction program staff report. Copies of the report may be obtained from CARB’s website (https://tinyurl.com/co py-CARB) beginning Aug. 4. Con tact the regulations coordinator, at Bradley.Bechtold@arb.ca.gov or 279-208-7266.Thepublicmay present com ments orally or in writing at the meeting and may provide com ments by mail or by electronic submittal before the meeting. To be considered by the board, written comments not submitted during the meeting must be re ceived no later than Aug. 15, and addressed to the following: Clerks’ Office, California Air Re sources Board 1001 I St., Sacramento, CA Electronic95814 Submittal: https:// tinyurl.com/4ykj9fhr Oil and Gas Drilling Ordinance
. I am not a resident of LA/LB Harbor Area, but I have visited it several times and definitely appreciate the rich history of San Pedro and its environs. Using the colorful history of South Pacific Avenue and the erosion of its legacy to ultimately get at the problem of “modernization” and how the mindless installment of automation can harm communities and their workers—in this case, longshore workers, their families, and so forth—was a writing strategy one can admire. Thanks for this one and for highlighting the challenge that “the machine” can present to us all.
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from a driver’s license, to road tolls, to annual car inspections.Billionaires, on the other hand, have bought politi cians to write so many loop holes into the tax code that most — like Donald Trump — will go decades without paying a single penny in in come taxes. But that level of inequal ity isn’t enough for Senator Scott, who’s committed to out-neoliberaling Ronnie himself. He wants every body in Romney’s “47%,” even people making $7.25 an hour or less, to subsidize bil lionaires by paying income taxes on their meager wages. His logic is nuts. The simple reality is, if you want more Americans to pay in come taxes, all you have to do is raise working people’s pay. This isn’t rocket sci ence.We saw it work out in a big way between 1933 and 1980, before Reagan’s war on labor, when unions helped wages — and income tax payments — steadily rise for working people. Those rising wages literally built the mid dle class, which peaked in 1980 and then began its long slide under Reaganomics. In the early years of the Reagan administration, be fore his neoliberal “trickle down” and “supply side” policies started to really bite Americans, only 18% of Americans were so poor that their income didn’t qualify to be taxed. As “Right to Work for Less” laws spread across America and Republicans on the Supreme Court made it harder for unions to function, however, more and more work ing people fell below the tax threshold. When Romney ran for president in 2012, it was 47% of working people who had fallen out of the middle class and were then so poor that they lived below the income tax threshold.Today, just a decade later (and after the $2 trillion Trump tax cut), it takes two working adults to maintain the same lifestyle that one worker could provide in 1980. That’s why an estimated 61% of working Americans this year will make so little money that they’ll struggle to pay the rent and buy food, and their income won’t be subject to taxation. But Rick Scott’s solution to this situation isn’t to raise the income of working-class people so they make enough to pay for food, rent, and qualify to pay income taxes.
Read these online exclusives and more at: WomanRandomLengthsNews.comKilled,TwoOthers Injured in Wilmington Shooting Special Hearing: Deputy Gangs in the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department Long Beach Briefs: $25 Minimum Wage for Healthcare Workers & Proposed FY Budget Unveiled a selfish and self-centered life. The damages untold and for me unknown. And for this, I am truly sorry. I live now with God in heart, with an unshakable faith that His son laid his life down for me. To all of you, I apologize. R.F. San Pedro park on July 24, which had no connection to the softball game at the park’s baseball diamond. Daniels and LAPD Officer Joshua Rodriquez encountered each other near the gunshot victim who crashed his Hyundai near the upper parking lot above the baseball diamond. We regret the confusion the error may have caused.—The Editor from p. 6]
Throughout my life, my actions have been far reaching, and have hurt many. I have lived Errata Peck Park Shooting: Out of Tragedy: The Best and the Worst was updated to correct an important assertion made in the Aug. 4 edition of Random Lengths News. Keisha Daniels, the COO of Sisters of Watts, was with the Low Riders Car show in the upper part of Peck Park, one of the permitted organizations at the Killing Medicare
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) will conduct a public meeting on Aug. 25, 9 a.m. to consider the Community Emissions Reduction Program or CERP for the South Los Angeles Community.Consult the public agenda, which will be posted 10 days be fore the Aug. 25 CARB meeting for important details, including the day in which this item will be considered and how the public can participate via Zoom.
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Harvey Schwartz El Cerrito Sobering Automation I found James’ last column (“South Pacific Avenue: A Metaphor for Post-Industrial America,” in the “At Length” section of the Aug. 4-17, 2022,) both informative and sobering.
Time: No earlier than 4 p.m., Aug. 25 Details: https://tinyurl.com/ mr3cnmt6 Venue: California Air Resources Board, Byron Sher Auditorium, 1001 I St., Sacramento, CA 95814
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Automation has been around a while. Almost a century ago hundreds of thousands of people, mostly women, worked as manual phone operators. When automation came, proponents assured us that the new technology would create more jobs than the ones that were lost.More recently auto workers have lost a lot of jobs to robotics as well as seeing plants move overseas.In the mid1990s automation hit radio. Disc jockeys were replaced with tapes that made “one-hit wonders” out of Roy Orbison (Pretty Woman), Van Morrison (Brown-eyed Girl) and—gasp—the Rolling Stones (Satisfaction).Major league baseball has hinted that it would not mind replacing umpires by expanding the technology it already has in place to call balls and strikes.And just a few years ago there was a lot of talk about driverless vehicles. This hasn’t received much media coverage lately but you bet the ranch, this isn’t going away.Automation should be part of the political debate, especially if the technology was developed on taxpayers’ dime, The sooner the better. In fact, somebody should talk about it at the Labor Day Picnic in a few weeks.
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Thom Hartmann is a talkshow host and the author of The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream (2020) and more than 25 other books in print. This article was published in Common Dreams. Re: “South Pacific Avenue: A Metaphor for America”Post-Industrial I thoroughly enjoyed and benefited from your recent essay, “South Pacific Avenue: A Metaphor for Post-Industrial America,” in the “At Length” section of the Aug. 4-17, 2022, edition of Random Lengths News
Los Angeles City Planning has announced the release of the proposed Oil and Gas Drill ing Ordinance for public review and feedback. In response to city council file No. 17-0447, the proposed Oil Ordinance would amend the Los Angeles Munici pal Code to prohibit all new oil and gas drilling activities and make any existing extraction a nonconforming use in all zones of theStakeholderscity. and interested parties can comment on the proposed oil ordinance at a pub lic hearing on Aug. 30. This pro posed oil ordinance is anticipat ed to go before the city planning commission in fall 2022 where a recommendation will be made to the city council. Details: planning.oildrilling@lac ity.org. Join the Zoom webinar: planning-lacity-org.zoom.us/https://
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Increased arrests may make some people hap py, but “Arrests for petty offenses are devastating for the people arrested and their communities,” Beck explained. “Even a single arrest makes a per son less likely to stay in school, be hired for a job, or obtain housing. The punishment of an arrest of ten cascades into fines, fees, and what legal scholar Issa Kohler-Hausmann calls ‘procedural hassles,’ even in cases that do not result in jail time.” “If intense misdemeanor enforcement reduced crime, these costs might have to be balanced against the public safety benefits of low-level ar rests,” Beck noted, “but study after study has found intense misdemeanor enforcement does not reduce crime. One study analyzed the effects of randomly dropping some misdemeanor charges and found people who had their cases dismissed were less likely to be rearrested over the next two years, suggesting misdemeanor enforcement ac tively causes crime.”
The Homelessness Issue
Which Way, LA?
Facing this reality, a bill to bring social housing to California, AB 2053, by Assem blymember Alex Lee, of Milpitas, passed the Assembly but died in a Senate commit tee by one vote in June. As mayor of LA, with wide-ranging influence, Bass would be a formidable force in getting such legislation
Bass initially endorsed Gill, only to reverse her decision in June, when Caruso attacked her endorsement. Bass did not respond to Random Lengths’ inquiries to explain her reasoning. Caruso attacked Gill specifically for his pro posed 100-day moratorium on misdemeanor charges, “unless they are particularly egregious or time-sensitive,” which Gill credibly claims was a fear-mongering mis-representation of crimes that would not be charged. “Rick: you may be filthy rich, but no amount of money can change the truth,” Gill said in a state ment at the time. “Never did I say I would not pros ecute egregious crimes as city attorney. The crimes Caruso lists that I allegedly won’t prosecute are entirely fabricated, made up out of whole cloth.” What’s more, that moratorium was clearly a temporary transition measure, lasting less than 1/14 of his prospective term. Focusing on it was clearly intended to obscure Gill’s long-term goal to implement a safety-enhancing diversion-focused system. Now that the attempt to recall District At torney George Gascón has failed, it’s a good time to soberly reconsider just what Gill is proposing.
asked me to lead the effort around the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, I worked tirelessly to pass that bill out of the House,” Bass went on to explain at the coffee house that caters to first responders. “That bill, in itself, provides hundreds of millions of dollars for the police. So, if you don’t support the police, you wouldn’t support the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.”
It’s findings like these — hard-nosed empirical data — that are cited by aspiring progressive pros ecutors, such as city attorney candidate Faisal Gill.
The National Low Income Housing Coali tion’s “Out Of Reach” report documents the “significant gap between renters’ wages and the cost of rental housing across the United States,” using its central statistic, the Housing Wage — what a full-time worker must earn to afford modest rental without spending more than 30% of their income on housing. Califor nia currently has the second highest housing wage in the country — $39.01/hr. Even with its $15/hr minimum wage it would take 104 hours per week to afford a 2-bedroom rental home.
What’s more, she noted, “Ironically, I worked closely with the Police Protective League on the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. We worked closely together, which is why I was surprised that they spent $4 million attacking me, since we had worked so closely together. And, interestingly, I worked with Rick Caruso,” who helped her “with my Republican colleagues, who weren’t really sure where I was coming from.” (Caruso changed his registration to “Democrat” in January.)
On Aug. 6, Rep. Karen Bass, candidate for LA mayor, spoke at Sirens in San Pedro. Photo by Arturo GarciaAyala
As with crime, Caruso’s homelessness stance is long on tough talk, and claims of competence. But he’s apparently never built a single unit of af fordable housing in his career. Instead, he’s rely ing on public anger and frustration — the desire to do something, regardless of whether it works. This was reflected in the city council’s re cent 11 to 3 vote to dramatically expand the city’s prohibition on camping to public spaces around schools, which even the LA Times derided as “only fool[ing] people into think ing something is being done about homeless ness.” The new measure “won’t make a dent in homelessness and it probably won’t even reduce the appearance of encampments,” a Times’ editorial argued. “It will simply shift them down the block from a school — and it might not even do that. Another anti-camping restriction wastes time and city resources and solvesBothnothing.”candidates recognize there are mul tiple moving parts to the problem, but only Bass has decades of experience working on the multiple levels that need to be brought to gether. “We have to have a whole of govern ment approach, which means the federal gov ernment’s responsible, the state government, the city and the county.” The city and county need to work together. “It makes no sense to say the city’s responsible for building, the county’s responsible for services, when we’re talking about the same individual,” she said. “And we’ve got to get the federal government to relax a lot of regulations to address this problem like it’s an emergency.”
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While it’s important to address individual problems, there are broader underlying drivers — income inequality and the shortage of affordable housing — that have been worsening for decades. One way to address them would be through direct government involvement in building mixed-income social housing — a much larger scale solution than just building housing for the homeless, which is well established elsewhere in the developed world. And the need for something similar in California is clear.
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It took several minutes before Bass got around to saying, “I believe in stopping the crimes of to day, and investing in preventing the crimes of to morrow.” But even after that, she said little spe cifically about prevention strategies, despite having deeply detailed plans outlined on her website. But she did promise responsiveness. “I want to have an office of community safety, where we essentially go to all the neighborhoods around the city, and say, ‘What makes your neigh borhood safe?’,” Bass said. “I don’t believe in one size fits all. But what I do believe is that if you de fine what you want, it’s my job as mayor to deliver it. And I do believe that the number one job of the mayor is to keep the city safe.” Unfortunately, what people clamor for may not be what they want. There’s only mixed evidence, at best, that increased policing reduces serious crime — some shows the opposite. What it does do is increase misdemeanor arrests — which have significant social costs — as sociologist Brenden Beck explained at Slate in April, reporting on the results of a study he co-authored, analyzing 29 years of data spanning hundreds of cities. “We found the size of a city’s police bud get and the size of its police force both strongly predicted how many arrests its officers made for things like loitering, trespassing, and drug possession,” Beck wrote. “The trend was clear: When cities decreased the size of their police de partments, they saw fewer misdemeanor arrests and when they increased them, they saw more.”
But there’s a way the city can lead. “The city alone owns about 70 acres — lots. Some of which are completely vacant. Why can’t we put up housing there?” Bass asked. (City Controller Ron Galperin gives a lower figure of 39 acres.) “We know how to do this,” she said, “We’ve seen what our government can do. 20,000 Afghan refugees were in Qatar. We had to build a virtual city. Did we know how to do that? Yes. Why can’t we do that here, at home? That’s why you have to have an all of government approach. We have to prevent people from becoming homeless, we’ve got to get people off the streets right away, into housing, and then we have to address why they were unhoused to begin with. What was the problem that led to them losing their housing. If we don’t address why they were unhoused, the odds of them staying in housing is very slim.”
Anderson shared an oft-told story of a single interaction between her father and four-time Oscar- winning actress Katharine Hepburn. Anderson explained that her father would go to various events he knew Hollywood actors would attend, like charity tournaments. And so at a charity tennis tournament, he encountered Hepburn who was coming off one of the tennis courts. “My dad went up and asked her if he could take her picture. She said, ‘Sure, no problem.’ My dad then said, ‘Well do you want to put your tennis shoes down?’ Because she was holding her tennis shoes. ‘I thought maybe you’d want to put them down and not have them in the picture.’ The actress looked at him and said, ‘No, absolutely not. These are my lucky tennis shoes and they’re going to be in the picture.’” Anderson explained that the story became the quintessential characteristic of Katharine Hepburn for Anderson. “She was very sweet and everything,” Anderson said. “So [my father] enjoyed that interaction.”Anderson said of her father’s interaction with the “titan of the skies’’ and Hollywood producer, Howard Hughes, that he didn’t consider him important enough to obtain his autograph. Anderson surmised that it had to do with the timing by which her father encountered Hughes, whose years as a trailblazing aviator were long behind him, even if he Top, Joe Ackerman and daughter Julie. Left to right: Katharine Hepburn, Ava Gardner and Howard Duff, Bing Crosby, Lassie, Elizabeth Taylor.
Recently, San Pedro resident, Julie Anderson, self-published a glossy hard-bound 192page book as a homage to her father’s passion. To curate this book out of 5,000 photos, Anderson chose the most reputably recognizable actors from the golden age of Hollywood including the likes of Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Clark Gable and others — the list just goes“Ion.took those people knowing how important they were to film at that time,” Anderson said. “My father did get a lot of other actors. There were also actors who starred in a lot of different movies but never really became as popular.” Ackerman’s family was well aware of his hobby but it wasn’t until Anderson published The Golden Age of Hollywood that they understood the depth of his passion. “He was very private,” Anderson said of her father. “We didn’t even know a lot of the things that he had done such as going out to premieres and stuff like that. A lot of it, he did when he was younger.” Anderson, who was the second eldest of five children, said her father wasn’t the type of person who would go out and tell everybody everything. She said he felt there was more of his hobby that he did for his own enjoyment.Buthedidn’t keep this hobby just for his own enjoyment. He began presenting slideshows featuring his photography and the stories he picked up along the way as he captured his photos. “For a lot of the places he had put in the manuscript where he did a slideshow and he presented this to different groups in the area, during the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s. And at that time there were quite a few different places where the stars would go, they would go to the Brown Derby, and they would go to Hollywood Boulevard ... they go shopping,” Anderson explained. “They do normal things like everybody else. So back at that time, they were more at ease with being out in the public. Not like today’s Paparazzi.”
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Anderson said her dad made it very clear to his family that when he sought an autograph, he would be polite ... be a gentleman, and respectful of the stars and say to them, “May I have your autograph?” If they said no, he understood.
apturing photos of Hollywood stars was photographer Joe Ackerman’s passion. He operated in a media landscape that was a bit more innocent and less intrusive and perhaps less hungry for the intimate details of popular radio, television and film stars and their lives. Over four decades, Ackerman would collect more than 5,000 autographed photos from established performers to the up-and-coming stars.
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1 pound daikon, peeled and sliced into half-inch rounds 4 ounces of peeled ginger, sliced to about a quarter-inch-thick 1 large onion, cut into quarters 1 pound beef brisket or similarly lean, tough red meat (optional) If you skip the brisket, replace a quart of the water with beef (or vegetable) stock, or use bouillon cubes Add the ingredients to a pasta basket and set it in a pot with five quarts of water. Bring the pot to a boil and then turn it down to a simmer, and cook for two hours. Remove the pasta basket and let the broth cool to room temperature, and then chill in the fridge. Allow the brisket to cool and slice it thinly, toss the slices with salt, and refrigerate them until it’s time to assemble the dish. While the broth simmers, make the daikon pickles, boil the eggs, and prepare the noodles and vegetables as follows. Pickled Daikon 8 ounces daikon radish, peeled ½ teaspoon salt 6 tablespoons cider vinegar 2 teaspoons sugar 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper Use the peeler to cut the radish lengthwise into ribbons. Place the daikon ribbons in a bowl, and toss with the salt. Add the remaining ingredients. Toss again, and refrigerate until it’s time to assemble the bowl.
Naengmyeon
1 pound sliced cooked brisket 4 hard-boiled eggs, sliced in half lengthwise 1 pound cooked bok choy, spinach or other green vegetables 1 pound pickled daikon radish 1 large cucumber, peeled and sliced Sliced jalapeno, if you like spicy Soy
Boil 4 quarts of water in a pot with the pasta basket insert. You can also cook the noodles and vegetables in the radish stock. Cook the noodles per the instructions on the package. Then remove the insert and plunge the noodles into cold water. Drain and set aside. Briefly blanch the vegetables you intend to use, according to how much time they need. For bok choy and spinach, a minute in the boiling water is all you need.
DivideChiliRicesaucevinegarpastetheice among the bowls. Add the noodles and give them a twist with your fingers or a fork, so they make a bit of a spiral pattern. Artfully place the proteins, fruits and vegetables in little piles atop the noodles and ice. Place these bowls on the table and ladle in the broth. Season with a splash of soy sauce, and leave the bottle on the table, along with cider vinegar and pepper paste, so the diners can personalize their salt and acid levels. If you’re extra-thirsty, consider slurping the broth out of the bowl straight away, without chewing anything. Then refill the bowl, adjust the salt and sour, and begin eating in earnest.
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Hard Boiled Egg 4 eggs Bring a quart of water to a boil. Gently lower the eggs into the water and cook for a minute at full boil. Lower the heat to a simmer and cook for another 12 minutes. Remove the eggs and transfer them to a bowl with two quarts of cold water, and let them cool for 15 minutes. Peel under running water. Noodles and veggies ½ pound soba noodles Baby bok choy, spinach or other greens
Daikon Broth
By Ari LeVaux, Flash in the Pan Columnist aengmyeon (n-yang-me-on) translates to “cold noodles” in Korean. This simple name renders incomplete justice to this kaleidoscopic dish. The noodles are indeed cold, thanks to pieces of ice floating amongst them in the pre-chilled daikon radish broth. Atop the noodles are a colorful combination of proteins and plant parts, including meat, egg, blanched vegetables, pickled radishes, hot peppers and cucumbers, renowned for their coolness. Who knows what else is in that bowl? There is only one way to find out: dig in and slurp your way to the bottom of this treasure hunt of a meal. I first enjoyed naengmyeon on an August afternoon in a Vancouver, B.C. restaurant, after being lured inside by a sign advertising a summer menu. I was expecting seasonal vegetables. What I got was a spicy and sour juggernaut that stopped my sweat in its tracks. Back in 15th century North Korea, where
The Broth of Summer
4 servings 2 trays ice cubes or similar amount of crushed ice 1 pound cooked soba noodles naengmyeon came to be, the ice came from the mountains. While cold is practically the definition of refreshment, most refreshing foods are sweet. But in this case, aside from the occasional slice of Asian pear, the meal is decidedlyThere’ssavory.nolimit to the number of variations this dish can accommodate, but the radish broth itself remains the soul of naengmyeon. As soon as the daikon, ginger and onion begin simmering, an intoxicating fragrance fills the room. This mysterious smell is enticing. In addition to the broth, there are several more steps to preparing naengmyeon, and each is basically its own recipe. We must make the daikon pickles, blanch the proteins, cook the meat, and make perfect hard-boiled eggs. When these have all been prepared we can finally assemble the finished dish. One extremely useful piece of equipment for this dish, and many others, is a pot with a pasta boiler insert that you can remove. With so many ingredients being pre-cooked in boiling stock, the pasta basket allows us to remove things from the kettle without the hassle and potential danger of pouring hot liquid through a strainer. When everything is prepared and assembled, dive into this glorious bowl of diverse textures and flavors, and eat strategically. If you get too much heat from a sliced jalapeno, head for the Asian pear for refuge. It all adds up to a savory and sour soup that’s as refreshing as ice tea, but even more nutritious and exhilarating as the chilled ingredients carry the cold deep inside of you, where you need it the most.
Here we assemble all of the previously prepared ingredients into bowls. As discussed above, the brisket was cooked with the broth. But this time of year, when the garlic is fresh, I use beef bouillon in the daikon stock and go with a more tender cut of meat for the final dish. If you go this route, slice the meat thinly and fry it with minced garlic in olive oil with salt and pepper, and add these slices to the final bowl.
N Daikon broth noodle bowl assembled. Photo by Ari LeVaux
There is a lot you can do with this daikon broth in addition to making naengmyeon. Last night I used it to make a pot of rice, and that captivating flavor impregnated every grain.
Cora Ramirez-V, Corazon de Fuego Gallery Azul presents Nuestra Cultura, a group art exhibition cel ebrating Hispanic Heritage Month. Show dates: Thursday, Sept. 1, 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 24, 4 to 8 p.m.
Palos Verdes Art Center
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The exhibition of 50 paintings chronicle the history of Gardena High School’s ambitious endeavor — one driven by educational rather than economic values. From 1919 to 1956, students in the senior class selected, purchased and donated some 72 works of art to the high school as class gifts. Since the mid-1950s, the collection has been in storage and unavail able for viewing by the public. This presentation of GIFTED: Collecting the Art of California at Gardena High School, 1919- 1956 is the first for Los Angeles County, where Gardena High School is located. The exhibition runs from Sept. 17 through Nov. 12.
Venue: Michael Stearns Studio@The Loft, 401 S. Mesa St., San Pedro.
Details: www.galleryazul.com Venue: Gallery Azul, 520 W. 8th St., San Pedro Edgar Alwin Payne, Rockbound, 1921, oil on canvas. Gift of the Class of 1921 Ray Carofano, Freeway Study #6, 1999, archival pigment print Gallery 478 PHOTOS BY ARNÉE AND RAY CAROFANO
Venue: Palos Verdes Art Center / Beverly G. Alpay Center for Arts Education, 5504 Crestridge Road, Rancho Palos Verdes Michael Stearns Studio
Colors of Life runs through the month of September
Details: www.carofano.com Venue: Gallery 478, 478 W. 7th St., San Pedro.
Gallery Azul NUESTRA CULTURA
Opening reception Sept. 24, 6 to 9 p.m.
Michael Stearns is a colorist. To Stearns, color is like music, it connects with us in ways we do not even realize. Stearn’s work connects viscerally as well as intellectu ally with viewers. As an example Stearns uses andmalworkyetsciencequestionsmappingchromosometoraiseregardingandethics,approachesthethroughtheprisidewithcolorshapes.
Details: 310-541-2479; www.pvartcenter.org
Details: www.michaelstearnsstudio.com
GIFTED: COLLECTING THE ART OF CALIFORNIA AT GARDENA HIGH SCHOOL, 1919-1956
THE COLORS OF LIFE — MICHAEL STEARNS Primal Pond #4, acrylic on canvas, 48x48
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The Cripple of Inishmaan Set in 1934, as a ray of hope spreads over Inishmaan when a Hollywood director sets up shop on a neighboring island to film his latest project. Inishmaan is abuzz with anticipation, but no one is more excited than disabled Billy Claven, an unloved boy. His dream of getting away from the is land seems to come true when he gets the chance to audition. Time: 8 p.m., Friday and Satur day; 2 p.m. Sunday, through Aug. 20 Cost: $14 to $24 Details: www.lbplayhouse.org562-494-1014; Venue: Long Beach Playhouse, 5021 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach Aug. 24
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Magically Thinking Curated by Kim Marra, Magically Thinking includes works by artists who are masters of world-building, transporting viewers into their cre ative consciousness with visual language, often employing obses sive or even ritualistic methods to yield their desired outcome. Their expression serves as a response to the insecurity of an uncertain world that leads to the mental gymnastics of magical thinking. The exhibition runs through Oct. 1. Time: Opening reception 3 to 5 p.m., Aug. 20 Cost: Free Details: magically-thinkinghttps://angelsgateart.org/ Venue: Angels Gate Cultural Cen ter, 3601 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro At Full Volume II: Joyce Weiss in Brilliant Color At Full Volume II features a selec tion of paintings by Joyce Weiss, late Angels Gate Studio artist. Weiss’ brilliant use of color com bined with gestural forms at large scale created bold visions on can vas. The exhibition runs through Details: www.thegaragetheatre. org Venue: The Garage Theatre, 251 E. 7th St., Long Aug.Beach27
Venue: International City Theatre, 330 E. Seaside Way, Long Beach Aug. 26
Time: 6 to 11 p.m., Aug. 27 Cost: Free Details: www.brouwerijwest.com Venue: Brouwerij West, 110 E. 22nd St., Warehouse No. 9, San Pedro THEATER Aug. 19
Hard Day’s Night Southern California’s Beatles trib ute show comes to San Pedro. The concert is part of the Rock Legends benefit series at the Warner Grand. Proceeds ben efit Grand Vision’s Meet the Mu sic program and Love the Lobby. Reception includes appetizers and one complimentary drink, and access to a private no-host bar before the concert for VIP ticket holders only. Time: VIP pre-concert reception 6 to 7:30 p.m., concert 8 p.m. Aug. 19 Cost: $27.50 and up Details: event/hard-days-nightwww.grandvision.org/
Venue: Grand Park, 350 S. Grand Ave., Los AngelesAug. 26 Fortnight 2022, The Habits Five concerts will be held in the access tunnel to Battery Leary at Angels Gate Cultural Center, Aug. 26 to Oct. 24, starting with San Pedro-based band, The Habits. Note: CO VID-19 safety protocols will be enforced. Time: 7 to 9:30 p.m., Aug. 26 Cost: $20 Details: https://tinyurl.com/ the-habits Venue: Angels Gate Cultural Center, Battery Leary-Merri am, 3601 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro Aug. 27
Venue: Museum of Latin Ameri can Art, 628 Alamitos Ave., Long Beach Dennis Keeley: A Survey of the Quotidian Landscape Palos Verdes Art Center and Beverly G. Alpay Center for Arts Education has announced Dennis Keeley: A Survey of the Quotidian Landscape. About this exhibition, Keeley said his work addresses what happens in the moment in between what one sees and what might appear to some as perhaps the most common experience in Los Angeles. Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday through Aug. 27 Cost: Free Details: pvartcenter.org310-541-2479; Venue: Palos Verdes Art Center, 5504 Crestridge Road, Rancho Palos VerdesAug.
Venue: Grand Park, 350 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles David Garfield, Outside The Box The concert features special guests Grant Geissman (gui tar), John Peña (bass) and Gary Novak (drums). Be it jazz, rock, funk, or world beat, David Garfield is the creative
Venue: Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro LITERATURE Aug. 25
The Phineas Banning Birthday Celebration will be held onsite at the Banning Museum for the first time in two years. Celebrate the “Father of the Los Angeles Har bor” with live country and clas sic rock music by local band, JB and The Big Circle Riders, line dance lessons by Carrie Wojo and barbecue provided by Lucille’s Smokehouse Barbecue. Time: 5 to 8 p.m., Aug. 20 Cost: $10 to $45 Details: 310-548-7777; nyurl.com/banning-birthdayhttps://ti
rian, Stanford University and UCLA grad speak about patterns of civic engagement and political culture found among San Pedro’s immigrant Italians and Croatians among the first and second gen erations of these ethnic groups. The event is sponsored by the San Pedro Bay Historical Society. Time: 1:30 p.m., Aug. 20 Cost: Free Details: 310-548-7618 Venue: Los Angeles Maritime Mu seum, Brass Room, 600 Sampson Way, Berth 84, at the foot of 6th St., San PedroAug.
Valley Song A young girl seeks the courage to embrace the future while her grandfather searches for the wis dom to let go of the past. The first post-apartheid play by one of the greatest playwrights in South Afri ca, Valley Song is a poignant and hope-filled coming-of-age story that transcends politics. Time: 8 p.m., Thursday to Satur day and 2 p.m. Sunday Aug. 24 to Sept. 11 Cost: $37 to $55 Details: org/2022-seasonhttps://ictlongbeach.
Tales of the Long Beach Play house History, Mystery, Com edy and More This reader’s theater tells the story of the people, places and events that turned a small band of pas sionate volunteers into one of the city’s most beloved institutions. The piece is divided into five acts, each of which depicts an era that had specific significance to the de velopment of the Playhouse and is updated to bring the story forward to August, 2022. COVID-19 proto cols remain in place and include masks while seated in the theater. Time: Reception, 7 p.m., show 8 p.m., Aug. 27 Cost: $25 to $40 Details: www.LBPlayhouse.org562-494-1014; Venue: Long Beach Playhouse, 5021 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach Sept. 24 An Evening With Al Franken From 15 years with Saturday Night Live, to nearly a decade in the U.S. Senate, to now host of one of the nation’s top political and public-affairs podcasts, Al Fran ken brings comedy and insight to important issues facing the coun try, from the Supreme Court to the state of our democracy. The eve ning includes a Q&A, as Franken discusses his far-ranging career in comedy and public service. Time: 8 p.m., Sept. 24 Cost: $75 Details: https://tinyurl.com/alfranken Venue: Carpenter Performing Arts Center, 6200 E. Atherton St., Long Beach ARTS Aug. 18
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Venue: Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro, Aug. 20 Kamyar In partnership with the Farhang Foundation — which celebrates Iranian art and culture — Grand Performances will host interna tional Iranian-born pianist and pop star Kamyar. Time: 6 to 10 p.m., Aug. 20 Cost: Free Details: es.org/eventswww.grandperformanc
Alice Coltrane: An Expansive Spirit Join a tribute to singular musi cian and spiritual leader Alice Coltrane in celebration of her 85th birthday, presented by dublab, featuring performanc es by Miguel Atwood-Fergu son and Surya Botofasina. Time: 6 to 10 p.m., Aug. 27 Cost: Free Details: mances.org/eventswww.grandperfor
The Drowning Girls Based on the serial killer George Joseph Smith and the case known as the “Brides in the Bath Mur ders,” which took place in England from 1912 to 1914, The Drowning Girls is a fantasy play and a so cial critique touching on the mis conceptions of love, married life, and the societal pressures that can strip away a woman’s voice, freedom of choice, and indepen dence. Time: 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, Aug. 26 to Sept. 24 Cost: $18 to $30 MUSIC Aug. 19
The Summer Show is a juried allmedia exhibition hosted by and open for submission only to mem bers of the Palos Verdes Art Cen ter’s seven active artists groups: Artists Open Group, Pacific Arts Group, Paletteers, Peninsula Art ists, Photographic and Digital Art ists, The Artists Studio and Third Dimension. Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday until Aug. 27 Cost: Free Details: pvartcenter.org310-541-2479; Venue: Palos Verdes Art Center, 5504 Crestridge Road, Rancho Palos Verdes Harmonious Threads The Firehouse Community Farm’s fiber art show runs through Aug. 27. Free parking is in the event lot located around the corner on Orange Avenue between 64th and 65th on the east side of the street at the New Philadelphia AME Church, 6380 Orange Ave. force behind the production of many internationally acclaimed recordings. Time: 8 p.m., Aug. 27 Cost: $30 Details: 310-833-3281; howroom.com/event/david-garalvass field Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro Wall of Sound Wall of Sound returns to the Brou werij. It will be putting on a show consisting of two sets in the court yard. This show is for all ages.
Venue: Briggs Gallery, 2221 E. Broadway, Long Beach Rethinking Essential Rethinking Essential is artist Nar siso Martinez’s homage to the na tion’s agriculture workers. Marti nez uses his firsthand experience as a farmworker in his work to ref erence the inequities in the current labor system, and is a contempo rary iteration of social realism, critiquing power structures and conditions of the undocumented working class. Time: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednes day through Sunday Cost: $10 to $15 Details: sentialnarsiso-martinez-rethinking-eshttps://molaa.org/2022-
23 See the World With New Eyes Join learning and engagement coordinator Grace Cuffel in the butterfly pavilion, SOAR, for an hour of journaling and medita tion. Learn about the importance of self-reflection and journaling in nature amongst the garden’s vibrant tropical butterflies. Ticket price includes admission to SOAR and a journal to take home. This class will be held outdoors. Time: 4 to 5 p.m., Aug. 23 Cost: $35 to $40 Details: https://tinyurl.com/gar den-soar Venue: South Coast Botanic Garden, 26300 Crenshaw Blvd., Palos Verdes Peninsula Open Garden: Feed and Be Fed Farm San Pedro’s own urban farm opens its downtown garden space every Tuesday and Friday, and on First Thursday evenings to fea ture great local jazz musicians. Come share nature’s bounty and beauty growing vegetables, flow ers and community. Get your hands in the dirt as a volunteer, get expert advice or just relax. Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Tues days and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Fridays Venue: Feed and Be Fed Farm, 429 W. 6th St., San Pedro Aug. 25 Sunset Series Join the new Sunset Series, a weekly event that will bring the garden to life after hours. Guests can roam the 87 acres or hang out at the pop-up refresh ment station where they can sip on a cocktail or grab a bite to eat while enjoying the garden’s natu ral beauty, yard games and music. Children will be entertained by the fun and energetic Ms. Allison. There will be live performances on the upper meadow. Time: 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., Aug. 25 Cost: $5 to $9 Details: icgarden.org/sunset-serieshttps://southcoastbotan Venue: South Coast Botanic Garden, 26300 Crenshaw Blvd., Palos VerdesAug.Peninsula27 SoCal Etsy Guild Market Torrance Join an amazing day of handmade fun, local designers, live art, hand made vendors, food, giveaways and much more. All vendors will be located below the movie the ater, near Forever 21 and a main mall entrance. Time: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Aug. 27 Cost: Free Details: 310-542-8525, Del Amo Mall Venue: Del Amo Fashion Center, 3525 Carson St., Sept.Torrance1 Jazz at Feed and Be Fed Farm On First Thursday, Rebecca Lynn and the Magic Planet jazz band play at Feed and be Fed Farm. Sit, have some popcorn, and en joy the music in the garden. Time: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Sept. 1 Cost: Free Venue: Feed and Be Fed Farm, 429 W. 6th St., San Pedro Oct. 1. Time: Aug. 20 Cost: Free Details: ii/gallery/joyce-weiss-at-full-volume-https://angelsgateart.org/ Venue: Angels Gate Cultural Cen ter, 3601 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro FILM Aug. 25 Luciano Pavarotti, the Star The Warner Grand Theatre in San Pedro will be showing the short film by Gianluigi Toccafondo Aug. 25. The event will take place a day after the famed tenor opera singer will be posthumously added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Time: 5 p.m., Aug. 25 Cost: Free Details: bdh3464rhttps://tinyurl.com/
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Venue: Banning Museum, 401 E. M St., Wilmington A Talk by Professor Emeritus Nicholas Lovrich Hear native San Pedran/histo
This “Komedy” slamm will include a gold VIP dinner and black & white dance after party. Hosted by Lamont Bonman, the event features DJ Rodney, tribute acts to Whitney Houston, Al Green, Four Tops, Michael Jackson and others. Time: 7:30 p.m., Aug. 27 Cost: $25 and up Details: www.spectaculareventz.com714-622-4977; Venue: Phoenix Club, 1340 S. Sanderson Ave., Anaheim COMMUNITY Aug. 20
Time: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednes days and Saturdays, or by ap pointment Cost: Free Details: 562-343-3834; www.firehousecommunityfarm.org Venue: Firehouse Community Farm, 6509 Gundry Ave., Long Beach Transparency II Watercolor is characterized by washes of transparent, luminous color. Transparency II — present ed by the Long Beach Creative Group — showcases expert use of this versatile medium. The ex hibit features work by artists from San Pedro and Long Beach, some of whom are members of the Na tional Watercolor Society. The ex hibition runs through Sept. 3. Time: 1 to 4 p.m., Friday through Sunday Cost: Free Details: vv68ynk9https://tinyurl.com/
The Long Beach Public Library “Author Talks” series offers resi dents a chance to interact with select authors of New York Times best-selling books. This monthly series features a diverse set of two to four talks, offering a mix of perspectives from literary authors to career advancement. Each talk concludes with a live Q&A with the author. Registration is required. The schedule for the sessions are as follows: Aug. 22 – The Beauty in Break ing: A Memoir by Michele Harper Register: www.libraryc.org/ lbpl/17812 Aug. 25 – Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact by Liz Wise man, Register: www.libraryc.org/ lbpl/17815 Time: 6 p.m,. Aug. 22 and 9 a.m., Aug. 25 Cost: Free Details: libraryc.org/lbpl562.570.7500; Venue: Online COMEDY Aug. 27 Legends of Motown Komedy Slamm
of Inishmaan, a Distinctive but Not Ideal McDonagh Showcase
By Greggory Moore, Curtain Call Columnist million chance of him getting it, he has to chance it still — else why be alive at all?” That’s the “action” driving The Cripple of Inishmaan — “action” in scare quotes, because this is not the Martin McDonagh you want if you’re looking for the guy who brought you Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — or even The Lieutenant of Inishmore, which Long Beach Playhouse staged a few years ago. Rather, The Cripple of Inishmaan, a comedy on the surface, is a meditation on striving for something, anything, despite the humbleness of your origins and the limits of your horizons. Because McDonagh is closer to cute here than the wicked wit that characterizes his best humorist turns (e.g., In Bruges), if you’re going to like The Cripple of Inishmaan for more than its whimsical, unmistakably Irish idiosyncrasy, it’s for the pathos — and this works only if you’ve got a Billy who can bring it. Fortunately, Long Beach Playhouse does in Dylan La Rocque, who is solid throughout but shines in his two crucial monologues. Even if director Susan Boulanger might have put a bit more emphasis on the conversational and leaned a bit less into the idiosyncrasy, there’s no faulting the rest of the cast’s acting; it’s just that, despite its craftsmanship, as a piece of writing The Cripple of Inishmaan scarcely breaks the surface with its supporting roles. Where the actors come up short is with their bodily interaction. Of the half-dozen or so moments when characters poke/smack/wrestle each other (there’s no full-on brawling), except for a bit with some eggs, the blows are notably stilted. None of this is central to the play, but each such moment takes us out of the action for a trice. There’s actually a fight choreographer listed in the program, so what happened here is anyone’s guess. Vis-à-vis the mise en scène [the way actors Makena Margolin and Dylan La Rocque in The Cripple of Inishmaan. Photo courtesy of Long Beach Playhouse Joe Ackerman gets Jerry Seinfeld’s autograph. Photo courtesy of Julie Anderson [Ackerman, from p. 9]
Anderson explained that because her father had patented certain hearing aid technology, he also started working with different sound studios in the film and television industry using his earpiece technology that would allow the director or whoever to talk to the actors without stopping the film from rolling. They could just tell them stuff through this earpiece which later became the ear pieces they use now for music videos and concerts. “My dad, he worked on a lot of movies back in the ‘80s and ‘90s and 2000s ... namely movies where they had a soundtrack. And so they had to incorporate that,” Anderson explained. “So they work with Bette Midler on The Rose. He worked with Robert De Niro on the musical drama New York, New York. He worked on TV shows like Seinfeld and so that brought it full circle for him. So he really progressed to color. San Pedro has always celebrated its mark on Hollywood. This Los Angeles Harbor Area town has two film festivals and scores of film credits as site locations. Its last remaining theater built at the start of the golden age of Hollywood still stands in its downtown core. At least with the Los Angeles Harbor International Film Festival, we are reminded of the stars that made the film world go round during the golden age of Hollywood. In the case of Joe Ackerman’s family, the golden age of Hollywood is passed down from generation to generation as family lore, allowing Ackerman’s memory to live on. To purchase the book, visit https:// joeackermanshollywood.com. There isn’t much life for a 16-year-old orphaned cripple like Billy on the little Irish isle of Inishmaan in 1934. The best he can muster is going out to stare at cows and rereading the same old books. But when an American film crew comes to a neighboring isle and is looking to cast some locals, even though “it’s a one in a and scenery props are arranged], everything is simple and functional — this is not a bells-andwhistles play. If anything merits mention, it’s David Zahacewski’s lighting design. Simple as it is, subtle cues continually modulate the brightness/dimness to exactly the right level for any given moment, always befitting the mood and There’sspace. no doubting that Martin McDonagh has a distinctive voice — and Long Beach Playhouse has no problem communicating it in The Cripple of Inishmaan. But shortcomings in both the writing and the production leave this show short of an ideal McDonagh showcase. The Cripple of Inishmann Time: Friday through Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m. through Aug. 20 Cost: $14 to $24 Details: 562-494-1014; lbplayhouse.org Venue: Long Beach Playhouse, 5021 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach
owned an airline in his namesake. “[By the time my father met him] Howard Hughes was a recluse. He had called my dad to find out if he could get some hearing aids because he was having problems with his hearing, and he just wanted to make sure ... because he was a germaphobe and all that... that nobody would touch any of the hearing aids. My dad couldn’t say that, no, no one’s going to touch these [hearing aids].” So Hughes ended up not buying any. enjoyedAndersonit.” relied on what she learned in her college history courses about black and white films.“The talkies silent film and then it progressed, to color, with sound quality and everything,” Anderson explained. “I wanted to show that progression, the photos that it started out with, people who were from the silent era all the way through [the talkies]. And then it turned intoAndersoncolor. also did it this way because she wanted to follow suit The Wizard of Oz, when the movie started out in black and white and Ackerman Hearing aids for use on film and television stages was the basis of one of two businesses Ackerman would build that would tie him to film and television production in teamsequipmentallowedandactorsallowhearingAckermanHollywood.hadpatentedaidsthatwoulddirectorstospeakwithasthey’reperformingfoundedacompanythathimtorentsoundtoproductionaroundHollywood.
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• Create jobs installing and maintaining EV charging stations particularly in under served communities and ensuring that small and minority-owned businesses can participate in the rapid growth of the charging network. There’s a careful weaving together of di verse concerns here and throughout her cli mate plans. What’s missing is something noted in our last issue story about the 710 freeway: anything akin to Munich’s planned Freiham ecodistrict “with 15,000 jobs, a mix of homes for 25,000, schools, daycare, cafes, shops, car-free streets, parks and courtyards, all com bined with high capacity transit.” The many fine pieces that are in Bass’s plan could realize even greater benefits if they could be brought together in some similar fashion.
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Another issue area Bass highlights on her website — climate and sustainability — has gotten far less attention, while it ought to be front and center, given how crucially it inter connects with virtually everything else local governments are responsible for. Here, again, she has some deeply detailed ideas, summed up in what she calls “a jobs and justice-cen tered plan to decarbonize our economy.” For example, under the heading, “Transition to Zero-Emission Vehicles and Dramatically Reduce Vehicle Emissions,” specifics include:
This column was excerpted from Jim Hampton’s obituary for Ken Draper. Read Hampton’s column in full at the following link, https://tinyurl.com/Ken-Draper-Passing. Most knew Ken Draper as the publisher of CityWatch, but back in the 1960s, he pro duced radio shows in Portland, Cleveland and Chicago. Draper died at the age of 89. Draper later founded in Hollywood a radio consulting and syndication company where he produced programming for radio stations all over the U.S. Draper then became the executive editor of KFWB in Los Ange les and created the ‘You give us 22 minutes; we’ll give you the world’ format based on all that he learned programming Top 40. This was a first for all news radio. In the late 1990s, the City of LA approved the charter to create neighborhood councils as a grass roots way to connect LA’s diverse com munities with City Hall. Draper helped launch Mid-City West, which was one of the first neighborhood councils and a model for others. During the pre-charter years, Ken worked with long-time activist and political consultant Mark Siegel. Mark was monitoring the work of the Charter Commissions with his Charter Watch reports. Neighborhood councils were born when the Charter was approved in 1999. When Siegel took a sabbatical from pub lishing in 2000, Ken converted Charter Watch into CityWatch. It began as a printed handout, which was published bi-weekly to an email list of a few hundred. If you attended city council meetings in LA, you would invariably see it in the hands of council members. Draper’s longtime collaborator and friend convinced him to transition his printed newslet ter to a website in 2002. Now, it is available 24/7 with twice weekly e-news blasts to more than 90,000 electronic subscribers and millions of users. The purpose of CityWatch remains un changed: To hold City Hall accountable and to encourage grass roots civic engagement. To do this, Ken enlisted the help of some of LA’s best writers, who week after week, year after year, provided original stories to be published on CityWatch. Their voices, their opinions. Left, center, right … it didn’t matter.
WARNING: Free newspapers provide a key source of informa tion to the public, in many cases providing an im portant alternative to the news and ideas expressed in other local media sources. The Legislature further finds that the unauthorized taking of multiple copies of free newspapers, whether done to sell them to recycling centers, to injure a business competitor, to deprive others of the opportunity to read them, or for any other reason, injures the rights of readers, writ ers, publishers, and advertisers, and impoverishes the marketplace of ideas in California. Ref. Universal Citation: CA Penal Code § 490.7 (2021) Registered owner(s): SUSAN FRANTZ 31034 RUE LAN GLOIS, RANCHO PALOS VERDES CA 90275. This business is conducted by an Individual. The registrant(s) started doing business on N/A. I declare that all informa tion 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 dol lars ($1,000)). S/ SUSAN FRANTZ OWNER This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los An geles County on 06/24/2022.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2022154757 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. PEDRO CHIRO 2. PE DROCHIRO 3. PEDROCHIRO 4. PEDRO_CHIRO 5. PEDRO.CHIRO 6. PE DRO/CHIRO 1609 W. 25TH ST. SAN PEDRO CA 90732 County of LOS ANGELES [from p. 14] Registered owner(s): DANIEL BAUNE 1609 W. 25TH ST., SAN PEDRO CA 90732 This business is conducted by: an Individual. The regis trant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 04/2022 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/ DANIEL BAUNE OWNER This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los An geles on 07/13/2022 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 Sec tion 17920, where it expires 40 afterdaysany change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a regis tered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must 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 Profes sions Code). 7/21, 8/4, 8/18, 9/2/22 by these new digital signs. As confirmed by StreetsLA, Tranzito is the service pro vider selected to operate STAP. While the StreetsLA representative corresponded with evaded confirmation of Vector Media’s in volvement with STAP, the proposed contract on the StreetsLA website names “TranzitoVector, LLC” as the contractor. Vector Media is a company that specializes in out-of-home digital advertising. As part of their services, Vector has integrated Blue Comet software from a company called Blue Bite. Blue Bite’s “Blue Comet” software utilizes shadowfenc ing, a method of digital geofencing that col lects first-party data, including device IDs, from nearby devices. This first party data can then be used in retargeting initiatives from then on out.
passed next year, and she could explore how much LA could do on its own. This seems like a natural extension of her past advocacy and ideas, but again, Bass did not respond to Random Lengths’ queries on the subject. Climate Justice
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 regis tered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the ex piration. Effective January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business Name Statement must be ac companied 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). 7/21, 8/4, 8/18, 9/2/22
• Expand the network of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations throughout Los Ange les, both in households and corridors – where Angelenos live, work, and play – specifically in communities where access has been lim ited.
Finally, under the heading, “Clean Up Our Port To Benefit Communities,” she not only commits to 100% zero emissions by 2030, “partner[ing] with all levels of government to meet public health and climate goals,” and “support[ing] healthy land use and permitting policies that prevent or mitigate community impacts,” she also pledges to “Support invest ment of port revenues in community benefits for impacted neighborhoods, including public health and mobile clinics, parks, open space, and community gardens, climate resilience and adaptation projects, technology development and deployment, education enhancements, and projects that address noise pollution.”
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It’s an impressive statement of com mitments, but what’s missing is something touched on in our story about the recent “Somebody Else’s Ocean” report: the need for some kind of institutional structure to alter the long-term incentives that have allowed the port to become captive to the interests of for eign shipping and manufacturing companies. Bass has a long history of working to get unheard voices heard, and fostering collabo ration. She could be a truly transformational mayor if she dares to double down on that legacy by creating new institutional forms — not just at the port, but elsewhere as well — to not just create a more inclusive, collaborative policy structure under her administration, but to establish it as a permanent feature of how Los Angeles functions, not just internally, but in all its collaborative dealings with other gov ernmental entities as well.
Furthermore, both the STAP and TCN pro grams have faced public scrutiny regarding the potential impact of their digital signage as a driver distraction. Public comment on the TCN program was met with citizens citing studies linking roadside message boards to an increase in the likelihood of drivers crashing. “While we have searched for studies that further discuss the distraction levels and ef fects of displays associated with transit shel ters, we have not found any studies,” Gomez said. “All studies found and researched re garding driver distractions and media displays relate to much larger, elevated billboards (again typically 30 times the size of STAP displays).”Infurther attempts to alleviate unease, StreetsLA justified STAP displays through claims of a reduced refresh rate between advertisements (a 10-second minimum, rather than the industry standard of eight) as well as the promise of smooth transi tions. Those in opposition of STAP and the TCN project note these projects’ con tradiction with the mayor’s Vision Zero plan, a mission to reduce the number of traffic fatalities in Los Angeles. Instead, StreetsLA claims that STAP “comple ments Vision Zero efforts.”
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