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Vol. 32 No. 42
october 14 - 20, 2021
Dinner with a side dish of the creeps much everything from” Blood Manor, Quinn said. “It’s all their set and scenery. They had their A meal at the Beach House is set directors come out here and now designed to give you the transform the whole restaucreeps. rant.” The eatery has added scares The brand-new atmosphere and blood and guts and décor includes to its dining experifake skeletons, eerie ence, creating what music, dim lights, it calls “Nightmare heads, limbs and on Beech Street.” fake blood scattered Blood Manor, Manthroughout. There’s h a t t a n’s f a m o u s a new menu as well. haunted attraction, T he items on it collaborated with include Mummy’s the restaurant to Curse F latbread, create the spineBloodsucker Salad, chilling experience, Witches Hair Pasta which opened last and a milk chocolate Friday. Brain Hemorrhage tom ProViNe The planning deser t, which is began in May, when Resturant host, filled with fried Beach House co- Fortunado Oreos and candy. owner Max Feinberg “We needed the reached out to Blood menu to match the Manor. His co-owner, Michael concept,” Quinn said. “We have Quinn, said Blood Manor hesi- guacamole with a jack-o-lantern, tated to bring its haunted experi- burgers on a black brioche bun ence to Long Beach, but its own- and black spaghetti with fake ers changed their minds after plastic bones.” visiting the restaurant’s comedy Actors from the haunted night and got a feel for the place. house also joined some of the Blood Manor then trans- existing restaurant staff. Some formed the restaurant inside and became waiters, and some came out to create the Nightmare on to continue their job as masters Beech Street experience. of scares, walking around the “We have incorporated pretty Continued on page 11
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cederic coAd, 28, will take over as board chairman of the Martin Luther King Center in Long Beach in November.
Familiar face is named King Center board chairman by JAmes berNsteiN jbernstein@liherald.com
At 28, Cedric Coad has been a Long Beach High School football player and volunteer and a board member at the Martin Luther King Center. Now he is slated to assume the biggest job of his life — board chairman of the center, one of the city’s largest organizations. That may seem a weighty title for a young man, but Coad is no stranger to MLK.
He has volunteered for and worked at the center since he was 14, when he started organizing basketball and other sports activities for children. He will become board chairman in November, following a surprise announcement at the Oct. 5 City Council meeting by James Hodge, who said he had been “termlimited” after 16 years in the job. Hodge said that Coad, whom he had mentored for years, was approved by the center’s board.
“I have been groomed for this position,” Coad, athleticlooking with a ready smile, said in an interview at the center earlier this week. He grinned through some pain. His left leg was in a plastic brace, the result of a knee injury incurred while playing sports with kids. Not only has he been around MLK Center for a long time, but his late grandmother, Virginia Coad, was a board Continued on page 4
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