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By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor

he weekend of March 7 and 8 marked the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” in Selma, Ala., the day that a planned march of 600 people from Selma to Montgomery was met with a wave of police violence—including the billy club beating of future Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga.

The day shocked the nation and prompted the introduction and passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the first comprehensive effort in almost a century to enforce the voting rights of blacks (as well as other minorities) originally guaranteed by the 15th Amendment in 1870. About 100 Congress members were in attendance, including 23 Republicans, none of whom had signed on to co-sponsor Lewis’ Voting Rights Amendment Act, designed to repair much of the damage done to the Voting Rights Act by the Supreme Court in 2013.

A few days earlier, on March 4, the U.S. Department of Justice released its investigation of the Ferguson Police [See Olvera, page 4]

ILWU Local 13 President Bobby Olvera Jr. File photo.

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Bobby Olvera Reelected President of Local 13Elected for the Second Time, the ILWU Local 13 President Looks Inward and AheadBy Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor

now about me on social media is that I wore a Pendleton,” he said, referring to a string of Facebook c o m m e n t s about a shirt he wore to the Feb. 23 press conference. “If people see me in a suit, it would have been, ‘Oh, look at Olvera trying to look

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n the morning of the first Thursday in March, Bobby Olvera was multitasking—typing emails, preparing

bullet points for that night’s union meeting and taking brief calls—while paying attention to the news on the flatscreen TV from the ILWU Local 13’s downtown San Pedro office.

It was just eight days before Local 13’s elections, and it was in this context that the local’s president spoke at length with Random Lengths News about the union’s future, its internal struggles and its 21st century evolution.

Reflecting on his first term as president, Olvera spoke of his union’s successes, such as establishing greater use of social media and digital communication to keep the union informed.

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SPCC Leadership SeriesThe San Pedro Chamber of Commerce

will present the 2015 Leadership Series with Assemblyman Patrick O’Donnell at 11:30 a.m. March 20 at Ports O’ Call Restaurant.Details: (310) 832-7272Venue: Ports O’ Call RestaurantLocation: 1200 Nagoya Way, San Pedro

Conferencia Para la Mujer LatinaLong Beach Latinos in Action will host a

women’s wellness conference for the second consecutive year, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 21 at Dignity Health St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach.

Conferencia Para la Mujer Latina will take place in the Health Enhancement Center and feature speakers on topics ranging from mental health to civil rights to the arts.

The St. Mary mobile clinic will provide glucose screening and information about maternity care, and prenatal nutrition and caring for a new baby.

Martha Cota, who founded the Long Beach Latinos In Action in 2009, will be honored at the event for 25 years of volunteer service to the community.Details: (562) 313-4672; http://bit.ly/mujerlatinaVenue: St. Mary’s Medical CenterLocation: 1050 Linden Ave., Long Beach

Call for Artists to Design and Paint DOT Utility Boxes

In collaboration with City Council District 15 and Clean San Pedro Inc., the San Pedro Chamber of Commerce and ACE District committee have selected five DOT utility boxes in the San Pedro arts district to be painted by artists.

Submissions are due March 23. The district design advisory panel will select five submissions. Boxes will be painted the week of April 27. Details: (310) 832-7272

Become a Foster, Adoptive Parent or Weekend Host

Learn about becoming a foster, adoptive parent or weekend host, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 28, at Long Beach City College, Building E. Nordic Lounge.

Council member Al Austin and the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, working in partnership with Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe and a number of local agencies, present this workshop designed to provide interested people with information on how to become a foster or adoptive parent. Details: (888) 811-1121Venue: Long Beach City CollegeLocation: 4901 E. Carson St., Long Beach

St. Anthony 5K Run/WalkSt. Anthony High School’s 6th Annual Saints’

Run will begin at 7 a.m. on March 28 at Shoreline Village in Long Beach.

All proceeds benefit St. Anthony High School’s financial aid program.Details: www.longbeachsaints.orgVenue: Shoreline VillageLocation: 401 Shoreline Village Drive, Long Beach Alcohol Awareness Month

South Bay Communities Creating Change will host a media event at 10 a.m. April 2 at the Gardena City Council chambers, to kick off this year’s observance of Alcohol Awareness Month. There will be elected officials, health professionals, law enforcement, youth and community leaders of the South Bay to present local and regional data and to provide testimonies.Details: (213) 304-1394Venue: Gardena City Hall Location: 1700 W. 162nd St., Gardena Long Beach City Council Special Election

There will be a special municipal election to fill the vacant 4th District council seat on April 14. The qualified candidates are Herlinda Chico, Daryl Supernaw and Richard Lindemann.Details: (562) 570-7479Venue: Long Beach City Hall Location: 333 W. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach

San Pedro has been invaded by the film industry.

FilmLA notices were posted on the windows of local businesses and homes on March 6, reserving sidewalks and street parking on Pacific Avenue, 11th and Mesa streets.

“Today, for example, [the film production] harmed [my business] a bit because people did not come, because they used the parking,” said Oliva Avila, owner of Oliva’s Beauty Salon on Pacific Avenue, in Spanish. “But it was only one day—for a little while. If you take two or three days, then, yes, it will greatly affect us.”

Between Jan. 1 and March 9, FilmLA had 12 shoot days in the San Pedro area near Harbor Boulevard, Seaside Avenue, 6th, 7th and Mesa streets, FilmLA spokeswoman Danielle Walker said via email. The company is a private nonprofit that coordinates and processes permits for on-location motion picture, television and commercial productions.

On 11th Street, adjacent to Pacific Avenue, there were signs that closed off parking from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. on March 6. Avila, who has worked at her business for 20 years, said the majority of her customers come in during the morning. But although she lost business that day because of the restricted parking, she remains optimistic.

“A little bit of money goes away, but people return,” she said.

Many community members, including those on the Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Watch, said residents should be better compensated for the inconveniences caused by the film industry. Some residents living near film shoots must park blocks away from their homes.

“I was gone for four days and my wife says, ‘Wow, there’s no place to park,’” said San Pedro resident Tim Horibe, who lives on 10th and Mesa streets near a film shoot that occured on March 6.

“It was very inconvenient,” he said. “I can’t do anything about it.”

Business owner Andrew Silber of The Whale & Ale, an English pub and restaurant on 7th Street, said permits would still be issued even if community members voice their concerns to FilmLA.

“[The film industry is] very valuable to the city; it’s valuable to the county and even the state,” Silber said. “It’s very necessary, but if there isn’t an impartial oversight, it’s liable to potentially not be very fairly administered.”

He argues that if there was a dispute, FilmLA would side with the film industry rather than businesses because “that’s who pays their bills.”

Silber, who has run The Whale & Ale for about 20 years, said most filming companies, like FilmLA, are considerate of businesses and will either compensate the business with money for lost business, or try to have as little impact as possible. But not all such companies are conscientious, he said. That’s when negotiations between the filming management and businesses become “awkward.”

Silber recalled a film shoot about 10 years ago, during which a part of 7th Street was closed off. He said those days cost him “enormously” when he was not compensated. Film management didn’t believe he should be compensated because his restaurant wasn’t on the same block as the filming.

“But that was once, it was a long time ago,”

Silber said. “It was very expensive for me, but you sort of grit your teeth and grin and bear it.”

Many other business owners will have to get used to these inconveniences as Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti plans to expand the filmindustry.

On March 4, Garcetti signed an executive directive to make City Hall more film friendly and announced budget proposals to invest in city services that would encourage filming and entertainment job creation. He mentioned how the passage of Assembly Bill 1839, which expands the state’s film tax credit, contributes his “Greenlight Hollywood” campaign of attracting more film companies to Los Angeles. Garcetti also appointed Board of Public Works President Kevin James as City Hall’s chief film

liaison. James will be in charge of minimizing red tape in City Hall.

James said the city is looking for ways to fairly handle inconveniences caused by filming.

Film crews near businesses may actually help businesses because they buy there and stimulate the local economy, James said. Otherwise, he said he will try to minimize interruptions by finding new filming locations—perhaps free of charge—that filmmakers may not know about.

“I do recognize that when a filming crew comes into an area, that there is potential disruption and interruption for small businesses,” James said. “And, we need to find the best way to balance that—so that it’s a win-win for everybody.”

FilmLA Interrupts San Pedro BusinessesSan Pedro Community is Burdened by Sidewalk and Curb ClosuresBy Crystal Niebla, Editorial Intern

Film crews took up dozens of parking spaces recently near the intersection of 13th and Mesa streets in San Pedro. Photo by Crystal Niebla.

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Olvera Reelected[Olvera, from p. 1]

big time, now he wants to wear a suit.’”“If that’s the worst that could be said about me, then you

can also say I wore steel-toed work boots with that Pendleton,” he said.

The local’s membership has since returned Olvera to the presidency with a 55 percent margin of victory. Because the election turnout was just around 39 percent, it doesn’t mean he was completely happy with the victory.

“When I made vice president four or five years ago, the runoff [victory] was like 66 percent,” Olvera said. “I’m a pessimist…Less than 40 percent of the membership voted and I got 60 percent of that. So when you do the math, that’s 18-something percent of the 1,600 out of the 6,000 that got me 66 percent.

“I’m glad to be here. I serve faithfully. But that in and of itself should be a telltale sign to the union we’ve got to do something.”

The president-elect said he’s been preaching for probably five or six years about changing the way the local conducts its elections.

“That’s…one of those changes that make people say, ‘Whoa!’ Is it because of tradition? Yes,” Olvera said. “Because, if 5,800 show up to vote, some people may not get elected anymore.

“I’ve told people a thousand times, if 80 percent of our membership showed up to vote and I lost, I would be happy… I wouldn’t care who got elected.

“We’ve made a lot of achievements this year as a local outside of the contract [negotiations], like TraPac,” Olvera said. “This is the first time anywhere in the world, [a] labor union has taken on an automated terminal and prevailed the way we did.”

Olvera was referring to the Port of Los Angeles and TraPac joint venture in deploying a fully automated terminal that would replace much of the work crews that would unload cargo containers off ships.

His first term as president has been nothing but eventful, punctuated with failed recall elections of union officers, media battles with the Pacific Maritime Association and rumor control after outbursts from a Web publishing critic of the union. And if that weren’t enough, Olvera took on the task of ushering a traditionally tightlipped union into the 21st century by communicating with the membership through social media, text messages and e-blasts, while hiring a public relations firm to communicate its message to the media.

Olvera replied to questions about whether contract negotiations were really held up by a single arbitrator and whether Teamsters and troquero critiques about their exclusion from the contract talks were legitimate by saying that

it wasn’t personal, “it’s just a process to change the system.”

He said that no other union gets to have a say in its negotiation with its employer.

Division of the Hall Between Steady Men and Hall Men

But if the division within the labor movement weren’t enough of a headache, the internal division within the union is potentially toxic. Olvera has thought deeply about how to heal the perceived separation of steady men and hall men in light of vitriolic rhetoric on the issue within the union. Steadies are workers hired, trained and retained by the employer through the Dispatch Hall, which gives out the work. Hall men are longshoremen who are not chosen by the employer out of the Dispatch Hall.

“I think that the larger the percentage of your workforce that becomes steady, the greater the challenge for the union as an entity to communicate, reestablish and maintain…participation,” Olvera said. “But when the rubber hits the road, our steadies are good union men and women. Regardless the amount of steadies we have, everybody is on the same page.”

Olvera suggests that union utilization of technology and a greater push to provide more and better training will help erase some of the division between the steadies and the hall men.

“Paper bulletins in the hall don’t work anymore,” Olvera said. “That’s why you must have the email blast and have different means…the website and different ways of communicating with our membership.

“I hear it all the time, ‘Aw man I can’t stand steadies,’ and some will say, ‘I love my company. I’ll never go back to the hall.’ But the beauty of our union is that union members have that choice. You have the right to go steady or not go steady.”

Olvera also believes that some election reform could help heal the rift between steadies

ILWU Local 13 President Bobby Olvera beneath the eyes of the union’s founder, Harry Bridges. Photo by Phillip Cooke.

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and hall men.“I think the way we do our election is in dire need of change to

increase participation,” he said.The president doesn’t believe mail-in ballots are good for the

union, but he said there has been some discussion of utilizing mobile polling stations at the terminals during both the day and night shifts. To keep up with technology, he said those stations could be linked to the local’s computers so that voter totals could be tallied in real time instead of days and weeks after the election.

“If we don’t try, if we don’t experiment or explore the options and try to make a change again, we’re going to miss the boat,” he said.

Olvera tells the membership and other observers to stay tuned. He believes the longshore workforce is going to grow.

“Coming out of these negotiations—and I can’t speak to what is and what isn’t contained in the contract—but I think the employers and the industry recognizes that there is a need to invest in the workforce,” Olvera said. “We need better training. We’re still training guys on cranes the way we trained them 25 years ago. We’re training guys on top-handler equipment…it’s like teaching someone accustomed to driving an automatic to drive a stick shift.”

Olvera likened the nation’s approach to goods movement to the way it’s managed its education infrastructure.

“We’re still the best in the world, but I think we’re at that point where we say we’re still the best in educating and teaching our kids, but we didn’t invest the money in the school systems, the teachers, and the schools and the supplies for the kids,” he said. “And so we saw the whole world pass us by. Now look at where we are. No matter how much money or the lottery or whatever we do for education, we’re so far behind the eight ball that it’s going to take us generations to get us back to where we once were and that’s if we get the capital investment and legislative support we need for schools.”

Olvera said sometimes you have to flank your opponent.“I don’t want to say by hook or by crook, but you can only beat

your head against the wall for so long on an issue,” he said. “You gotta provide a way to where the men and women that trained on equipment have an expectation they’ll be paid on that equipment and that comes from work coming into the hall. Not by having an abundance of steadies and the leftovers get sent to the hall. The better trained and the better able we are to provide a high-quality trained worker, the better we position ourselves for the future.”

Olvera said at the time all would become clear in a couple of weeks.

“You’ll understand because when everything becomes public, you’ll understand what I was leading up to.”

Two days before this edition’s publication date, Olvera was stuck to his office phone waiting for word from the International in San Francisco.

Rollout of Improvements Since Tentative Agreement

The Port of Los Angeles announced, in quick succession after the tentative agreement, the rollout of the gray chassis fleet that would serve as a pool of interoperable truck-trailers to improve the flow of goods at the terminals. Eleven of the 13 container terminals at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, as well as the off-dock rail yards, are expected to participate.

The other announcement was the establishment of a container free-flow operation that allows TTSI drayage truckers to “peel off” cargo containers from big box shippers such as Walmart or Target after they have been placed in a block off the ship. This change was aimed at reducing port congestion while efficiently delivering import loads to retailers and other large shippers.

Olvera sees these advancements as a good thing, but also sees the improvements as just one step in the right direction, or rather a correction of an attempt to sabotage the contract negotiations in the first place.

“I think when we look at some of the changes that have happened just in the past few days and weeks…I think everybody recognizes that when the shipping lines and marine terminal operators divested themselves of their chassis, it was purely a move to violate our jurisdiction and take away our work,” he said. “It turned around and bit them in the butt.”

Olvera is given to deploying military terms in describing the logistics of moving cargo, perhaps because of his service as a Marine.

“We have record volumes,” he said. “We have a backlog. We

need as many assets on the deck, on the ground as possible. We need boots on the ground.

“The addition of tens of thousands of chassis from these chassis companies [that] have been holding them hostage inland…in the yard unused, will most definitely help the process. When we’re talking about peeling off cans, no matter how many truckers you have, no matter how many plans you put forth, the root issue is how you discharged the cans and how they are loaded in China or wherever they are coming from.”

To remedy that aspect of the goods movement chain, Olvera believes that more has to be done to impress upon the shippers and big box carriers at most of the world’s major ports to organize their cargo in the most standard and efficient way possible.

“If you only have four or five cans on a ship, it really doesn’t matter,” Olvera said. “When you’re bringing 150 to 200 cans and they’re kind of scattered, that means that they are going to be scattered throughout the yard…We have 25,000 cans in the yard. Having them scattered here, there and everywhere doesn’t make for an efficient operation. So when we talk about peeling cans off, there’s a step before we can even get to that. The big box carriers, the marine terminal operators and all the other stakeholders all need to reach out to the shipping lines overseas and have them stow the cargo basically in groups.”

Olvera repeatedly said he couldn’t speak on any of the details of the tentative agreement, but he did make special note of some of the peculiar dynamics of some of the actors in the negotiations.

When asked which members of the Pacific Maritime Association were the bad actors during the negotiations, Olvera answered carefully. “I think, and I also hope, that a lot of the marine terminal operators and other PMA member companies that aren’t on Forbes Top 10 realize that democracy is a good thing.”

Olvera believes that the PMA’s board of directors is a balance of power that favors companies with commanding market shares, and that those certain large companies have monopolized either power on the PMA’s board of directors or tried to monopolize work on the entire West Coast.

“A lot of smaller marine terminal operators, a lot of independents that aren’t part of the super giants, like SSA, they suffered at the hands of some of the big boys,” Olvera said. “I hope they take a good hard look at the way they do business and realize that being dictated to by mega-companies on the West Coast isn’t good for their company. It’s not good for the industry. Our workforce and our industry have a lot of links in that chain. There are a lot of people whose livelihoods depend on us. I would hope the PMA makes some changes.”

ILWU Local 13 President Bobby Olvera at the Feb. 23 Back to Work L.A. press conference with Pacific Maritime Association Vice President Chad Lindsay, Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia, and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. File photo.

Read the extended version of this story at www.randomlength-snews.com that include Bobby Olvera’s thoughts about critics within outside Local’s 13 and pushing the union forward.

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Department in Missouri, which found a revenue-driven pattern and practice of racist policing, including systemic violations of the First and Fourth amendments. Although Ferguson’s mayor, James Knowles III, initially disputed the report, saying “[t]here is probably another side to all of these stories,” a wave of resignations soon followed, including Ferguson’s city manager, John Shaw, Police Chief Thomas Jackson and Municipal Judge Ronald Brockmeyer.

In combination, the two events starkly illustrated America’s intractable inability and unwillingness to live up to its ideals of liberty and justice for all, particularly where African-Americans are concerned. While great strides have been taken in brief bursts from time to time, not only are the ideals still out of reach, but our progress toward them remains uncertain at best. It is commonly reversed in daily practice in the absence of sustained organizing and constant vigilance.

“We’re a country that lurches back and forth. We’re lurching backwards now,” said Bob Moses, a legendary voter registration leader in

1960s Mississippi.While many were eager to commemorate

Bloody Sunday’s 50th Anniversary, few were willing to celebrate it, and the Justice Department’s Ferguson report vividly illustrated why.

“Ferguson’s law enforcement practices are shaped by the city’s focus on revenue rather than by public safety needs,” the report stated. “This emphasis on revenue has compromised the institutional character of Ferguson’s police department, contributing to a pattern of unconstitutional policing.”

The report followed the filing of a class action lawsuit in February, charging that Ferguson and nearby Jennings both ran debtors prisons, which have been illegal in America for almost two centuries. Lawyers filing the suits charged that “[p]eople are held in jail as a means of coercion to get them to pay fines, with police and jail officials arbitrarily changing the amount of fines to coerce family members or friends to bring enough cash to satisfy the amount owed.”

Moreover, although it’s extreme, Ferguson is hardly unique, as dozens of other municipalities

in St. Louis County engage in similar practices. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch cited the example of Erwin Rush, 50, of St. Louis, who “has been trying to climb out of traffic court debt for 20 years,” and currently owes more than $4,500 to six municipalities.

Extortion Racket“The city budgets for sizeable increases in

municipal fines and fees each year exhorts police and court staff to deliver those revenue increases, and closely monitors whether those increases are achieved,” the DOJ report states in a summary section titled “Focus on Generating Revenue.”

It added that “City officials routinely urge Chief Jackson to generate more revenue through enforcement.” For example, “[I]n March 2013, the finance director wrote to the city manager: ‘Court fees are anticipated to rise about 7.5 percent. I did ask the chief if he thought the PD could deliver a 10 percent increase. He indicated they could try.’”

Unsurprisingly, the report adds, “Ferguson police officers from all ranks told us that revenue generation is stressed heavily within the police department, and that the message comes from city leadership. The evidence we reviewed supports this perception.”

Turning the police department into a de facto extortion ring is bad enough, but of course, it has terrible spillover effects as well, and it’s spelled out in the next section, “Police Practices:”

This culture within FPD influences officer activities in all areas of policing, beyond just ticketing. Officers expect and demand compliance even when they lack legal authority. They are inclined to interpret the exercise of free speech rights as unlawful disobedience, innocent movements as physical threats, indications of mental or physical illness as belligerence… The result is a pattern of stops without reasonable suspicion and arrests without probable cause in violation of the Fourth Amendment; infringement on free expression, as well as retaliation for protected expression, in violation of the First Amendment; and excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amendment.

With this kind of everyday institutional baseline, Darren Wilson’s killing of Michael Brown might almost seem inevitable—given long enough, these sorts of attitudes were bound to have such an effect. But the pervasiveness of such arrogant, paranoid and illegal attitudes and behavior arguably only makes it more difficult to assign individual responsibility to Wilson, which is part of the reason he was not charged with a federal crime.

Still, the lack of provable, specific, racist intent on Wilson’s part does nothing to alter the cultural and historical significance of killing an unarmed black youth, which remains rooted in the logic of total white institutional control of black bodies, for which slavery remains the prototype. We can see this logic played out in another example cited in the report.

The report notes that “[E]ven relatively routine misconduct by Ferguson police officers can have significant consequences for the people whose rights are violated,” as it introduces the ordeal of a 32-year-old African-American man whose “crime” was simply sitting in his car cooling off after playing basketball in a public park. An officer demanded his Social Security number and identification, accused him of being a pedophile (there were children in the park!), ordered him out of his car for a pat-down, and asked to search his car—all without any reason at all. When the man objected, citing his constitutional rights, he was arrested at gunpoint and charged with eight violations of Ferguson’s municipal code, including a charge of “making a false declaration” for giving the short form of his first name (e.g., “Mike” instead of “Michael”), a charge for not wearing a seat belt, even though he was parked, and other equally ludicrous charges. As a result “he lost his job as a contractor with the federal government that he had held for years.”

Echoes of HistoryThe role of police in controlling, regulating,

and extracting wealth from African-Americans has changed form over time, starting with the earliest slave patrols, the origins of Southern law enforcement institutions, but some features recur in different forms generations and even centuries apart.

On MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry Show, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, highlighted one such parallel—the ongoing game of keep-away between different government bodies to protect who would get to keep the black wealth they had plundered.

“This is the efficiency at its best,” Muhammad said of Ferguson’s system. “They said, ‘We’re charging people with as many citations as possible, and we’re going to make sure that it’s municipal violations, because we don’t want to send these people into the state system, because we will lose revenue.’”

This practice, one way or another, dates back as far as the end of slavery, he noted.

“In the state of Alabama in the decades following the Civil War, county regulators, county officials, competed with state officials as to whether black people would be charged to serve on the chain gang, which would serve the needs of the county, versus convicts’ leases which would serve the needs of the state.”

But it didn’t end there. “They also have perverse incentives in

Alabama running right up to the days of the 1960s and Selma, where the sheriffs were incentivized, along with law enforcement and deputies, to be paid based on how much activity they engaged in arresting people,” he noted. “So, the long arm of history is crashed into the present in terms of what’s going on in Ferguson.”

True to form, one response from Missouri lawmakers has been to propose a law that would cap how much money municipalities can get from their courts, redirecting the excess into state coffers.

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Voting Rights and WrongsMeanwhile, the Selma remembrance itself was

profoundly marred by the ongoing undermining of voting rights, facilitated by the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby v. Holder, striking down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, which Rep. Lewis called “a dagger into the heart of the Voting Rights Act,” and by the ongoing refusal of congressional Republicans to pass any sort of fix which would hold jurisdictions with a history of violations to stricter scrutiny. This has cleared the way for an unprecedented rise in voter suppression laws, largely justified by the nonexistent problem of voter fraud, which even the Justice Department under George W. Bush could not manage to find more than a handful of prosecutable cases of in eight years of trying.

“From 2011 to 2015, 395 new voting restrictions have been introduced in 49 states (Idaho is the lone exception),” investigative journalist Ari Berman wrote just before the Selma remembrance. “Half the states in the country have adopted measures making it harder to vote.” Berman is the author of the forthcoming book, Give Us The Ballot: The Modern Struggle For Voting Rights in America. A 2013 University of

Massachusetts study of proposed restrictions from 2006 to 2011 found that “proposal and passage are highly partisan, strategic and racialized affairs. These findings are consistent with a scenario in which the targeted demobilization of minority voters and African Americans is a central driver of recent legislative developments.” There was a “dramatic increase in restrictive legislation that actually passed in 2011,” following widespread GOP gains in controlling legislatures after the 2010 midterms.

Although the Voting Rights Act has enjoyed strong bipartisan support through four reauthorization votes (1970, 1975, 1982, 2006), most recently passing 98-0 in the Senate and 390-33 in the House, the GOP has lurched sharply to the right racially since the last reauthorization, particularly after Obama’s election in 2008. As a result, Rep. Lewis’ compromise Voting Rights Act Amendment, which only partially restores Section 4, has only 11 GOP co-sponsors in the House and none in the Senate—in sharp contrast to the unanimous vote for a bill honoring the foot soldiers of the Selma movement. As mentioned above, none of the 23 congressional Republicans who came to Selma had signed on to co-sponsor Lewis’ amendment.

The disconnect between honoring heroes of the past while opposing everything they stood for could not have been more stark.

“I just want some accountability,” Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said. “I want to know that everyone who showed up here today to have their picture taken on the bridge next to the heroes of the Civil Rights Movement is ready to support a new Voting Rights Act. Every one of them.”

Berman, reporting from Selma, held out a glimmer of hope. “A number of Republicans I interviewed expressed a newfound openness on the issue after spending time in Alabama with Lewis,” he wrote in The Nation. But only one of those he cited, Rep. Tom Reed, a Republican from upstate New York, explicitly said he would sponsor the Voting Rights Act Amendment when he returned. Others merely expressed a willingness to consider it. Unsurprisingly, some Alabama Republicans remained clearly opposed.

The lack of movement should not be surprising in light of how things work in Ferguson. As long as one group can be cut out of power, they will naturally be cut out of consideration. For decades now, Republicans have depended on keeping some small shred of respectability alive when it comes to race. But after the 2010 midterms, that effort and that era seem gone for good. With gerrymandering to secure safe House districts, low voter turnout in midterms, and sweeping new voter-suppression laws for presidential election years, the GOP looks to be digging in to build yet another incarnation of white America pretending to be all of America.

Historically, the only way to challenge that polished illusion is to break through its superficial display of competence, control and calm. That’s

what the Civil Rights Movement did, over and over and over again, including 50 years ago at Selma. It takes a spectacular, shocking event to move the country’s conscience, but such events can be years in the making. Bob Moses explained this on the Melissa Harris-Perry Show:

Basically, there were a few young people who came out of the sit-in movement, who decided they really didn’t want to live in the country unless they could change it. And so it was 24/7, it was not anymore about a career, or even family, it was about doing the work to change the country. But it was work it was done outside of the media. So it was work that laid the groundwork for the big media events.

Diane Nash, another student movement leader of that era, amplified what Moses said:

It is not possible to have a mass demonstration in the movement without that door-to-door organizing, door-to-door—person-to-person education. And that’s what it would take, at this point, really organizing. I see the young people now, a few years ago in the Occupy Movement, and now in the Hands Up Movement, and I say they are on the right track.

We citizens of the country had better not leave what needs to be done up to elected officials, because they will not do it. Citizens need to take the interests of this country into our own hands, learn how to use nonviolence and do it. I like to say, suppose we had waited for elected officials to desegregate lunch counters and public accommodations. We would be waiting right now. As citizens, we need to do what needs to be done.

Democratic congressional leaders pose for a photo on the Ed-mund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. on March 7 to commemo-rate the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Photo courtesy of Rep. Janice Hahn.

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The Americans who crossed this bridge were not physically imposing. But they gave courage to millions. They held no elected office. But they led a nation. They marched as Americans who had endured hundreds of years of brutal violence, and countless daily indignities—but they didn’t seek special treatment, just the equal treatment promised to them almost a century before.

What they did here will reverberate through the ages. Not because the change they won was preordained; not because their victory was complete; but because they proved that nonviolent change is possible; that love and hope can conquer hate.

As we commemorate their achievement, we are well-served to remember that at the time of the marches, many in power condemned rather than praised them. Back then, they were called Communists, half-breeds, outside agitators, sexual and moral degenerates, and worse—everything but the name their parents gave them. Their faith was questioned. Their lives were threatened. Their patriotism was challenged.

And yet, what could be more American than what happened in this place?

What could more profoundly vindicate the

idea of America than plain and humble people—the unsung, the downtrodden, the dreamers not of high station, not born to wealth or privilege, not of one religious tradition but many—coming together to shape their country’s course?

What greater expression of faith in the American experiment than this; what greater form of patriotism is there than the belief that America is not yet finished, that we are strong enough to be self-critical, that each successive generation can look upon our imperfections and decide that it is in our power to remake this nation to more closely align with our highest ideals.

That’s why Selma is not some outlier in the American experience. That’s why it’s not a museum or static monument to behold from a distance. It is instead the manifestation of a creed written into our founding documents:

“We the People…in order to form a more perfect union.”

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”

These are not just words. They are a living thing, a call to action, a roadmap for citizenship and an insistence in the capacity of free men

Marking the 50th Anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’By Barack Obama, President of the United States

Editor’s Note: On March 7, President Barrack Obama spoke before thousands during a commemorative ceremony for the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday”—an event at which more than 600 nonviolent protesters were attacked by Alabama state troopers as they attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights. Below is an excerpt from that speech.

Nostalgia hangs over this harbor area like overcast clouds on one of those days that brings a chill off the Pacific Ocean near Sunken City. It lingers for a time around the quaint Weymouth Corners shopping district like Mayberry, from the old Andy Griffith Show and then drifts down the stair-steps of Vista del Oro to the historic district of San Pedro.

At certain moments, I think that parts of this town are stuck in a time capsule, like the brick storefronts on 6th Street or the façade of the Warner Grand Theater. They’re throwbacks to Art Deco and this town’s boom time in the pre- and post-World War II eras.

Other times, I imagine the sounds of the thousands of workers who trekked down this street to cross the main channel to the fish canneries, shipyards and docks. The old ferry is gone. The shipyards are diminished and all the canneries have moved offshore except for one.

San Pedro’s once mighty fishing fleet, at one point the largest on the West Coast, is now relegated to catching sardines and squid—profitable for the few remaining boats—but not like in the glory days of tuna fishing.

And the once gracious Catalina Steamer, now a rusting, decaying wreck in Ensenada Bay, is but a memory that only a few still recall.

The dreams and memories of yesteryear abound. William Faulkner, in reflection on such things said, “The past is never dead. It’s not even the past.” If you’ve ever read anything by Faulkner, you’d know that’s probably one of the shortest summaries on the subject he ever

work ethic, reinvention here seems harder than in most places. Here, the anchor of our past is shackled to the bow of our memories.

Unlike many other places in Los Angeles, or the rest of this state, that regularly bulldozes its past, San Pedro has ardently clung onto its history with museums, monuments and some fervent preservation.

Yet, most of what we think of this historic past is wrapped up in some form of childhood memory, myth or half-truth about the “good ol’ days.”

What I have often observed is much of what we are confronting now is not much different than what our predecessors dealt with. Many historic solutions to waterfront access for example, are applicable today. Does anyone remember the viaduct that connected the lower

part of 14th Street to where the commercial fish market is today? It was a direct link for the workers to get to the fishing boats.

The same could be said about the old routes of the Red Cars connecting the port to downtown Los Angeles and beyond, or the Terminal Island ferry. All of these things are lost but not forgotten in our pursuit of some uncertain future.

Yet, the San Pedro Harbor Area is an anomaly in California in that the memory of its past surpasses any desire of erasure. Typically, such places only realize belatedly how much was actually lost.

By comparison, San Francisco never gave up its trolley cars and preserves its grand Victorian architecture. Venice preserved its canals and Santa Barbara its Mission District.

We have what’s left of our historic downtown and the adjoining Vinegar Hill Historic Preservation District—a district that was recently expanded after years of study. What lies in store in the future of our waterfront? How will this harbor community, so distant from the epicenter of Los Angeles political power, connect to both itself and the vast metropolis to the north?

I’m not so sure that the great minds of our day have any better solutions to the problems of the present than our ancestors did in theirs. The difference, however, is that they didn’t have a historical perspective or even a single foot in the past. After all, those who forget their history are doomed to repeat mistakes.

Others will just look back with a pining sense of nostalgia, while some will look at the past as a tool to create the future. Beware of those who tell you, “Don’t look back.”

penned.All of this brings me to the point of why

I’m writing today about our incessant struggle to address the present and our challenge of imagining the future. It seems like every time this community is confronted with anything new, like a plan for the waterfront, improving Gaffey Street or even rebranding something old, we get our feet stuck in this thing called “the past.” By the way, I don’t think this is just our problem. It’s a problem that is shared with any place that is older than the city of Irvine.

As Americans, especially those born in California, we have this constant sense that we can reinvent ourselves, our places and perhaps even our histories. To some extent it seems true. Think of Hollywood and its dream machine.

Yet, here in the San Pedro Bay, with our reliance on global trade and a blue collar

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and women to shape our own destiny. For founders like Franklin and Jefferson, for leaders like Lincoln and FDR, the success of our experiment in self-government rested on engaging all our citizens in this work. That’s what we celebrate here in Selma. That’s what this movement was all about, one leg in our long journey toward freedom.

The American instinct that led these young men and women to pick up the torch and cross this bridge is the same instinct that moved patriots to choose revolution over tyranny. It’s the same instinct that drew

immigrants from across oceans and the Rio Grande; the same instinct that led women to reach for the ballot and workers to organize against an unjust status quo; the same instinct that led us to plant a flag at Iwo Jima and on the surface of the Moon.

It’s the idea held by generations of citizens who believed that America is a constant work in progress; who believed that loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths. It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to speak out for what’s right and shake up the status quo.

That’s what makes us unique, and cements our reputation as a beacon of

opportunity. Young people behind the Iron Curtain would see Selma and eventually tear down a wall. Young people in Soweto would hear Bobby Kennedy talk about ripples of hope and eventually banish the scourge of apartheid. Young people in Burma went to prison rather than submit to military rule. From the streets of Tunis to the Maidan in Ukraine, this generation of young people can draw strength from this place, where the powerless could change the world’s greatest superpower, and push their leaders to expand the boundaries of freedom.

They saw that idea made real in Selma, Alabama. They saw it made real in America.

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Port Meeting on Red Car Suspension and Sampson Way Project

Port of Los Angeles announced it will suspend Red Car operations later this year in preparation for the Sampson Way roadway realignment project. The project, scheduled to go into construction in early 2016, is expected to take 18 months to complete. At the March 19 Harbor Commission meeting, there will be a presentation that will address questions regarding future operations of the Red Car. The meeting begins at 8:30 a.m. Venue: Port’s Administration building Location: 425 S. Palos Verdes St., San Pedro

Community Alert

Rep. Alan Lowenthal on Selma

Today, I am joining with President Barack Obama and Rep. John Lewis on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. We are there to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches that in 1965 led to the Voting Rights Act–a cornerstone of American Civil Rights.

And while we join today to celebrate how far we have come to bring equality and equity to all Americans, we are also there to remind our nation how far we still have to go in our struggle.

Just under two years ago, the Supreme Court stripped important protections from the Voting Rights Act. Just this week, the Alabama Supreme Court, located only steps from where the Selma marches concluded in Montgomery, denied marriage equality to LGBT Alabamians.

To keep the struggle alive–to remain your voice in Congress for full equality and freedom in America—I need your help.

Congressman Alan Lowenthal47th District, Long Beach

Get Back Like You WasBack in the day, when a friend

in my group would do something bizarre, one of the guys would say, “You better get back like you was, before you got like you is!” Very prophetic for one who may have very well required a “sea of change!”

I began to think about applying that synopsis to my fellow old guys. The very thought that one can get back like one was. Likely not, but some believe in the power of one to be that exception. Of course, it is untrue for all unless we consider declining physical prowess to be a simple metaphor in defiance of a Darwinian miracle. Who beats the odds of a million miles of blitzkrieg to a human body and its unintended consequences? Such consequences which create a caricature of one’s younger self and a total reminder

of this mortality (as if to say, ‘Time, time, time, look what you have done to me’).

I thought about us old folks, who easily slip into beginning every topic of discussion with the words, “I remember when…” I wonder if an entire life has been reduced to only memory to be used as a prologue for one’s next conversation.

Whereas now, when I walk out of my house I am reminded to put on a hat and shoes. I ask myself, “What is the big deal? I am only 76 year old.” I am then informed by my retired registered nurse wife that my autoimmune system does not work as well anymore and it takes three months to get over a cold!

Whereas now, when I hang out in public and hobble along, children take a second look and seem to want to help me. I simply tell them, my knees are gone and my back is horrible. Of course, there was a day when I could run full force for what seemed like forever and dunk a basketball with domination. Not anymore though, short-term evolution has taken its toll.

Whereas now, when I rise from a low seat and struggle to get up, my grandsons laugh at me. I now ask someone to bring me a glass of water and fall asleep the first 15 minutes into a movie. I don’t like to drive at night or in the rain. Instead of walking at the mall, sitting and people watching is a lot more fun. But the greatest privilege is when your family members allow you to be lazy.

Now, don’t get me wrong. Life is good. I have a wonderful wife. My two daughters went to great universities, took degrees and take good care of themselves. My three grandsons are healthy, relevant and engaging men to be around. As a family, we’ve traveled to Hawaii, the Bahamas, the Caribbean and various cities across the United States. So, yes, life has been really good. But we turn back the cirrus clouds of time, which are simultaneously going somewhere, yet really nowhere. Please don’t believe that malaprops notion that

70 is the new 50. We who have reached 70 know better. If it were true, then we would “get back like we was.” Seventy-year-olds know that the great timekeeper is asking questions.

Oh, one more thing, I had a supposed conversation with my 14-year-old niece and discovered she has a theory of nothing. Her sole purpose in life is to be angry, attitudinal and moody about anything. As we talked, her conversation descended into pseudo-mutualistic, non-sequiturs of: “uh-huh, yeah, no, like, whatever.” She was on another frequency than I. There was nothing to modulate. I dispensed with my half of the supposed conversation because she spoke the language of “kiss my ass.” She picked up her “hard-cased bible,” which in reality is her mobile cell phone, and she left the room. I wanted to tell her to “get back like she was, before she got like she is.”

John R. GraySan Pedro

Looking for Leadership at City Hall

In the 2013 election cycle, city voters elected a new mayor, a new controller and a new city attorney.

Voters also elected seven new members of the city council. The hope was that these new officials would give Los Angeles the effective leadership it lacked.

Three previous mayors (Riordan, Hahn and Villaraigosa) had made a mess of things. They tried to replace civil service with the “Riordan Paradigm,” a plan that turned city departments into virtually independent agencies.

To implement that plan, each mayor simply ignored the personnel provisions of the charter. He degraded the board of civil service commissioners and usurped its powers, and he “arranged” to have

the council’s personnel committee skip its duty to oversee the city’s personnel function.

The Riordan Paradigm did, in fact, significantly expand the powers of the mayor’s office and it did give department managers powers they had not had. But one would be hard pressed to show that this radical plan benefitted the people of Los Angeles.

When Eric Garcetti was elected mayor of Los Angeles, he had an opportunity to be the city’s desperately needed leader—to restore the board as a firewall between the mayor’s office and the 50,000 city jobs. But instead

of honoring his oath and following the charter, Garcetti followed his power-grabbing predecessors.

And, to hide the fact that the city council’s personnel committee skips its duty, the committee’s name was changed. It’s now the “Personnel and Animal Welfare Committee.” It meets twice a month but my guess is, it still doesn’t oversee the personnel function; it’s a sham!

No wonder the experts say Los Angeles faces a crisis in leadership.

Samuel M. SperlingMonterey Park

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By John Farrell, Curtain Call columnist

The Warner Grand in San Pedro was built for movie premiers.

In its long and sometimes illustrious career, it was home, at least for a few hours, to some big Hollywood celebrities.

But as far as anyone can figure out, Marilyn Monroe was not one of them.

That will change March 21, when Long Beach Opera presents Marilyn Forever, an opera by Gavin Bryars with a libretto by Marilyn Bowering, at the Warner Grand. There will be a second performance on March 29 at 2:30 p.m.

This is the work’s U.S. premier. It comes only two weeks after it was performed in Adelaide, Australia at the Adelaide Festival. It had its world premier in Victoria, British Columbia in 2012.

The Long Beach Opera is having two women play the part of Marilyn–soprano Jamie Chamberlin as the on-stage Marilyn, and mezzo-soprano Danielle Marcelle Bond as the off-stage, introspective Marilyn.

That’s a change from the other productions, a change in concept for this production by artistic and general director Andreas Mitisek. Bill Linwood is conducting the nine-piece orchestra and jazz combo, whose bass player is composer Gavin Bryars.

“This opera is a blank slate of sorts,” Mitisek said in a phone interview. “It’s the kind of production we often do, where we have to create a new work from just the score and libretto. That’s why we have two Marilyns–Jamie Chamberlin as the starlet Marilyn, and Danielle Marcelle Bond as the private one, the one alone in her bedroom, the one who is often overlooked in this story.”

Marilyn Monroe’s life story is public domain. We know she was not just the platinum blonde trope she played in her iconic films, but was raised by a mentally ill, single mother. Married at 16, she was a successful model before becoming a film starlet. Though she played a “dumb blonde” often enough, she was actually an intellectual. She was also a lonely person who never found the affection and love she needed. Her early death, which some believe to have been a suicide, carved her legend in stone.

Bryars approached this work through the poetry of Marilyn Bowering, whose lyrical take on Monroe is heard in English in the opera. Bryars’ score is a mixture of jazz tunes, played on stage by a trio, and a sad, noir-like musical appreciation of Monroe’s lonely life.

“Our approach to this work is different from others,” Mitisek said. “We use a live camera on stage, since this was all about film. It is a fun way to play Marilyn as she is being filmed and [it] also gives us a chance to focus on details. We blend live performance with the live feed.

“This is a poetic approach, a way to shine an emotional light on aspects of her life that were important to her, especially her marriage to playwright Arthur Miller. Everyone wanted to be with her but she never found anyone she wanted to be with.”

Tickets range from $29 to $160. Performances are March 21 at 8 p.m. and March 29 at 2:30 p.m.Details: (562) 432-5934; www.longbeachopera.orgVenue: Warner Grand TheatreLocation: 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro

Marilyn Forever cast from left to right, Robert Norman (Tritone),Jamie Chamberlin (Marilyn), Lee Gregory (Rehearsal Director and The Men), Danielle Marcelle Bond (Marilyn), Adrian Rosales (Tritone). Composer and Long Beach Opera conductor, Gavin Bryars (right). Courtesy of Long Beach Opera.

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By Andrea Serna, Arts and Culture Writer

after seven years, the San Pedro Arts Culture and Entertainment District finds itself with a looming deadline and a change of course.

In 2008, the group launched with a generous $500,000 Community Redevelopment Agency grant that was endorsed widely by both the arts and business communities. Today, only about $60,000 remains.

Although funds from the original grant remained in place, it was clear the group needed a plan for reorganization if they were to continue their mission of supporting arts, culture and entertainment in the heart of San Pedro.

This January, the ACE board voted to disband and form a nonprofit that could apply for grants and sponsorships that might keep the group in business. They rushed the vote on disbanding only to discover that they didn’t vote to transfer the authority over the remaining funds to the new nonprofit. Now there are essentially two arts boards–one made up of the remaining members of ACE, and a smaller board self-selected to run the new arts nonprofit.

The new group has the rest of 2015 to raise the funds. Needless to say, the transition has been bumpy. Accusations of rushing to purge antagonistic members have been raised during the meetings. The conflict most notably exposes the now-public dispute between Liz Schindler Johnson, wife of real estate scion Alan Johnson, and Random Lengths News publisher and founding president of ACE, James Preston Allen, over issues of transparency and inclusion of artists on the board.

The new ACE/San Pedro Waterfront Arts District has a pared down board of directors and a vision statement to cultivate new sustaining partnerships. The new group continues to function under the purview of the San Pedro

Chamber of Commerce, per the original guidelines set forth by the grant.

Its stated goals are to evolve the ACE accomplishments of the past, generate new opportunities to support local arts, culture and entertainment, and fulfill the mission to nurture the cultural roots of San Pedro through arts advocacy, education and promotion.

Any possibility of future funding from the Community Redevelopment Agency evaporated with the 2010 reelection of Gov. Jerry Brown, who is known for his frugality. The governor halted various redevelopment programs. As part of the 2011 Budget Act, and in order to protect funding for core public services at the local level, the state legislature approved the dissolution of the state’s 400-plus redevelopment agencies. After a period of litigation, the agencies were officially dissolved as of Feb. 1, 2012.

The original ACE group was required to assign the remaining funds before the end of 2014. Most of those funds will go toward additional painted utility boxes to complement five boxes completed in 2014. A downtown mural is a goal for 2015. A location and an artist to paint the mural is still missing. The group has committed $1,000 a month for an arts manager for the district, former board member Linda Grimes. Her desire is to mark downtown San Pedro as the recognizable center of art for all visitors of the community.

The district is anchored by the Warner Grand Theatre, a historic 1,500-seat Art Deco movie palace; Little Fish Theatre and the Loft Studios, a three-story warehouse where a concentration of fine artists do their work. The district’s streets are lined with artists’ live–work spaces. Studios come alive on First Thursdays every month, with gallery receptions and artists’ open houses.

New to the district is the long-anticipated Marylyn and Chuck Klaus Center for the Arts. In 2014, three new theaters were added to the district. Notable among them is Theatrum Elysium San Pedro Rep, which relocated from Glendale. The group’s website states “The essence of Theatrum Elysium (Greek for “theatre of paradise”) lies in our journey toward building a paradise of artistic innovation and theatrical celebration.”

In a statement, ACE board secretary Judith Blahnik said the ACE district was created as an economic strategy for downtown San Pedro that puts the arts first. Four successful campaigns of requests for qualifications and proposals put about $375,000 in the pockets of artists and arts organizations. The money went toward marketing exhibits and activities to support First Thursday Art Walk activities, and to improve interior and exterior facades of galleries. Recipients such as the Warschaw Gallery, Gallery 478,

Among the initiatives of the new ACE/San Pedro Waterfront Arts District was hiring former board member, Linda Grimes, as an arts manager for $1,000 per month and commissioning artists to paint utlity boxes around San Pedro’s Arts District. File photos.

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TransVagrant @ Warschaw GalleryAround BlAckWarschaw Gallery and TransVagrant are pleased to present Around Black, recent paintings by HK Zamani. Iconoclast as artist and gallerist, HK Zamani’s recent paintings dispense with the all-too-familiar conventions defining current abstraction where too much is almost never enough. Iranian-born artist HK Zamani (Habib Kheradyar Zamani) lives and works in Los Angeles. Zamani is the founder and director of PØST (1995-present), a subversive venue for contemporary art, where over 400 exhibitions have been presented. He encourages unorthodoxy, and argues against any dogma. Around Black runs through April 11. For more information please call (310) 600-4873. Gallery hours are Monday – Saturday, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m., and by appointment. Transvagrant @ Warschaw Gallery, 600 S. Pacific Avenue, San Pedro, CA 90731

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Studio Gallery 345BeArly iMpressions And other expressionsOpen 6-9 p.m. on 1st Thursday and by appointment. For more information call Gloria at (310) 545–0832 or Pat at (310) 374–8055 • 345 W. 7th St., San Pedro

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All three Sculptors, Michael Todd, Kristan Marvell and Nicholette Kominos, will be present to talk about their process, inspiration and career as they walk through the gallery. Questions will be encouraged by visitors. Artists Walk Through takes place at 7:30 pm on Thursday April 2. Open from 6 - 9 p.m. in conjunction with First Thursday Art Walk. The show runs through April 12. • 401 S. Mesa St. • 310.831.5757

Image shown: Western Moon II by Michael Todd, 1984-85, painted steel, 27”x29”x19”

Michael Stearns Studio 347JAye WhitWorth AsseMBlAgeMichael Stearns Studio 347 is located at 347 W. 7th St., San Pedro. Open for San Pedro First Thursday Art Walk from 6 to 9 p.m. Call (562) 400-0544 for information or appointments.

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wings or greens? We also offer an excellent selection of appetizers, salads, beer and wine. Call for fast delivery. Hours: 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Sun.-Thurs., 10 a.m.-11:30 p.m. Fri. & Sat. Big nick’s Pizza • 1110 N. Gaffey St., San Pedro • (310) 732-5800 • www.facebook.com/BigNicks

Buono’s authentIc pIzzerIaA S a n P e d r o landmark for over 40 years, famous for except ional a w a r d - w i n n i n g pizza baked in brick ovens. Buono’s also offers classic Italian dishes and

sauces based on tried-and-true family recipes and hand-selected ingredients that are prepared fresh. You can dine-in or take-out. Delivery and catering are also provided. Additionally, there are two locations in Long Beach. Hours: Sun.-Thurs. 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Fri. and Sat. 11 a.m.-11 p.m. • Buono’s Pizzeria • 1432 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro • (310) 547-0655 • www.buonospizza.com

the corner storeSet in the Palisades, one block up from Paseo Del Mar, The Corner Store was just that, the corner market used by the neighbors for a quart of milk and a six pack,

and for afterschool snacks for the kids. The building has been lovingly restored, and Peggy Lindquist’s bright smile brings sunshine to the place even on an overcast afternoon. The coffee and tea drinks pair well with a variety of sandwiches, burgers and custom hot dogs. The soup of the day is served in a crispy bread bowl. Homemade oatmeal, breakfast sandwiches and wraps, yogurt, fruit and granola, and a tempting array of freshly baked pastries give The Corner Store real breakfast potential. To please the younger crowd, the spectacular array of candy and sweets make Willie Wonka look shy. Their gift corner offers toys, cards, and artwork all done by local artisans. The Corner Store • 1118 W. 37th, St., San Pedro • (310) 832-2424.

happy dInerThe Happy Diner isn’t your average diner. If you pay attention to its special menu on blackboards, it’s almost a certainty you’re going to find something new each week. The cuisine runs the gamut of

Italian and Mexican to American continental. The Happy Diner chefs are always creating something new. They believe that if an item is good, its reputation will get around by word of mouth. You can even find items normally found at curbside lunch

trucks. You can take your pick of grilled salmon over pasta or tilapia and vegetables, prepared any way you like. Try their chicken enchiladas soup made from scratch. Happy Diner • (310) 241-0917 • 617 S. Centre St., San Pedro

nazelIe’s leBanese caFeNazelie’s Lebanese Cafe is a favorite of the neighborhood for the terrific kabobs, beef or chicken shawarma, lamb dishes and falafel. Nazelie’s chicken and rice soup with lemon is like

a warm embrace—it takes chicken soup to a who le new level. Nazelie uses a recipe handed down in her family for generations, starting w i t h h o m e m a d e

chicken broth, and adding a refreshing touch of lemon for taste and nutrients. Nazelie’s Lebanese Café, 1919 S. Pacific Avenue, San Pedro. (310) 519-1919

phIlIe B’s on sIXthOwner Philie Buscemi welcomes you to Philie B’s on Sixth, where New York–style pizza, Sicilian rice balls and pizza by-the-slice are the

specialties. Fresh hot or cold sandwiches, gourmet pizzas and fresh salads are also served. Try the “white pizza” with smooth ricotta, mozzarella and sharp Pecorino-Romano cheeses topped with torn fresh basil . Extended hours accommodate San Pedro’s unique lifestyle

and work schedules. Catering and fast, free local delivery ($15 min.) available. Philie B’s On Sixth • 347 W. 6th Street, San Pedro (310) 514-2500 www.philiebsonsixth.com

SAN PeDrO BreWiNG COmPANyA microbrewery and American grill, SPBC features handcrafted award-winning ales and lagers

served with creat ive pastas, bbq, sandwiches, salads and burgers. A full bar with made-from-scratch margaritas and a martini menu all add fun to the warm and friendly atmosphere. Wi-Fi bar connected for Web surfing and email—bring your

laptop. Live music on Saturdays. Hours: From 11:30 a.m., daily. San Pedro Brewing Company • 331 W. 6th St., San Pedro • (310) 831-5663 • www.sanpedrobrewing.com

sonny’s caFé and thInk BIstroSonny and Carly Ramirez are the husband and wife team behind Sonny’s Bistro and Think Café. They operate both establishments: Sonny works

in the kitchens and Carly attends the front of the house. The hands-on attention to detail makes their restaurants so successful, in both quality of food and service. Sonny’s Bistro’s lunch and dinner menus feature dishes made from locally sourced and hand–selected meats,

seafood and seasonal vegetables. Try the $10 lunch menu served Mon. through Friday. Think Café serves breakfast in addition to lunch and dinner with fresh egg dishes, omelettes and griddlecakes. Both restaurants have a fine selection of wines and beers that complement the dishes. Sonny’s Bistro • 1420 W. 25th St., San Pedro. Hours: mon-Fri, 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m., Sat and Sun. from 4 p.m. • (310) 548-4797. Think Café • 302 W. 5th St., San Pedro • Hours: mon-Sat. 8 a.m.-9 p.m., Sun. 8 a.m.- 2 p.m. • (310) 519-3662.

TALLy’S SANDWiCHeSOne of San Pedro’s newest dining spots, Tally’s

offers a fresh take on American homemade cuisine. Everything, from the hamburgers, ground in-house, to the macaroni salad is made fresh daily. Open for

lunch and dinner; enjoy one of the specials as you dine in this unassuming, centrally located sandwich shop. Feeling adventurous? Try the Thursday Thanksgiving sandwich special with homemade stuffing. Tally’s Sandwiches • Hours: mon.-Sat. 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sun. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. • 1438 S. Pacific Ave. San Pedro • (310) 974-0728.

THe WHALe & ALeSan Pedro’s British g a s t ro p u b o f fe r s comfortable dining in an oak–paneled setting, featuring English fish & chips, roast prime rib,

sea bass, rack of lamb, beef Wellington, meat pies, salmon, swordfish & vegetarian dishes. Open for lunch & dinner, 7days/wk; great selection of wines; 14 British tap ales, & full bar. Frequent live music. First Thursdays live band & special fixed price menu. Hours: Mon.-Thu. 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Fri. 11:30 a.m.-midnight Sat. & Sun. 1-10 p.m. Bar open late. The Whale & Ale • 327 W. 7th St., San Pedro • (310) 832-0363 • www.whaleandale.com

Include Your Restaurant in the Dining Guide In Print & Online • (310) 519-1442

Waterfront DiningBOArDWALk GriLL

Casual waterfront dining at its finest! Famous for slabs of Chicago-style baby back ribs, fish-n-chips, rich clam chowder, cold beer on tap and wine.

Full lunch menu also includes salads, sandwiches and burgers. Indoor and outdoor patio dining available. Proudly pouring Starbucks coffee. Open 7 days a week. Free Parking. Boardwalk Grill • 1199 Nagoya Way, LA Harbor - Berth 77, San Pedro • (310) 519-7551

POrTS O’ CALL WATerFrONT DiNiNGS ince 1961 they ’ ve e x t e n d e d a h e a r t y welcome to visitors from every corner of the globe. Delight in an awe-inspiring view of the dynamic L.A. Harbor while enjoying

exquisite coastal California cuisine and varietals. Relax in the plank bar or outdoor patio for the best happy hour on the waterfront. With the award-winning Sunday champagne brunch, receive the first Spirit Cruises harbor cruise of the day free. Open 7 days, lunch and dinner. Free Parking. ports O’Call Waterfront Dining • 1199 Nagoya Way, LA Harbor - Berth 76, San Pedro • (310) 833-3553 www.Portsocalldining.com

spIrIt cruIsesAn instant par ty ! Complete with all you need to relax and enjoy while the majesty of the harbor slips by. Their three yachts and

seasoned staff provide an exquisite excursion every time, and all-inclusive pricing makes party planning easy! Dinner cruise features a three course meal, full bar, unlimited cocktails and starlight dancing. Offering the ultimate excursion for any occasion. Free parking. Spirit Cruises • 1199 Nagoya Way, LA Harbor - Berth 77, San Pedro • (310) 548-8080, (562) 495-5884 • www.spiritmarine.com

The L.A. Harbor International Film Festival has announced its roster of films for its 12th year, taking place at the Warner Grand Theatre April 9 through 12. Among them is the 1962 musical Gypsy, which will be preceded by a live, adults-only burlesque show.

The Academy Award-nominated film stars Natalie Wood, Rosalind Russell and Karl Malden, and is based on the memoirs of real-life burlesque performer Gypsy Rose Lee. The film will be projected in its original 35mm format. In tribute to Lee, the burlesque performers Ruby Champagne and Glama Sutra will perform before the screening April 11 at 7 p.m.

“Seeing a film in a ‘movie palace’ like the Warner Grand Theatre is a rare and wonderful experience that speaks to the origin of the art form. It’s not only the quality of projection retaining the integrity of film, it’s about the ambience, the architecture, the historical meaning,” said Stephanie Mardesich, the festival director. “With the addition of the live ‘tease’ to compliment Gypsy, we expect to have a great audience response.”

Other films announced include The Red Pony and The Magnificent Seven, recent documentaries Life on the Line and Becoming California, as well as a series of award-winning short films via NewFilmmakers L.A.

The Red Pony is part of the “Read the Book, See the Movie” educational outreach program, while the screening of The Magnificent Seven is in association with the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs’ The Big Read. Both films will be preceded by discussions about the books associated with them.

General admission for each show will be $10, and $8 for seniors and students, with exceptions.

Details: www.brownpapertickets.com. For more information, visit www.laharborfilmfest.com.

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Actress, Natalie Wood, in the filmed musical, Gypsie. File photo

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ControverSyBy Andrea Serna, Arts and Culture Writer

in 2008, a group of creative visionaries gathered informally and discovered that they shared a vision for the arts and economy in San Pedro. Recently, their vision came to fruition with the opening of the Marylyn and Chuck Klaus Center for the Arts in San Pedro.

The 4,000-square-foot, two-story center opened March 5, during the First Thursday Art Walk in downtown San Pedro with its façade flooded with neon blue light. The space will provide a permanent home for the Marymount College fine arts program.

The new center complements the existing Marymount 6th Street facilities, which include the waterfront campus on the first floor of the Park Place building at 222 W. Sixth St., and the Arcade Gallery in the Arcade Building up the street. Also part of the Marymount campus is a music program housed at San Pedro High School’s Olguin campus.

The combined facilities located in the historic district of San Pedro provide undergraduate and graduate students with instruction, internships and a cultural connection to the already existing creative corridor downtown. The hope is to enable students to connect with the deeply rooted arts community while interacting with galleries and artists during First Thursday Art Walk events.

The seven-year journey began with the vision of having an art college in the heart of San Pedro. Developer and property owner Gary Larson found early inspiration on a visit to Savannah, Ga.

“I had been very interested in the preservation and restoration of downtown San Pedro” Larson said.

Larson visited many local sites in his search of a city that had successfully integrated arts and education with economic revitalization. None of them seemed to fit the existing climate in San Pedro, until he came upon the model of the Savannah College of Art and Design. Savannah, an Atlantic fishing community, has much in common with San Pedro.

“The thing that immediately caught my attention was the private effort between the school and the local businesses,” Larson said. “They started with one building and grew from there. It is a decentralized campus that is integrated with the community.”

Larson met local arts educators and it became apparent that they had found a formula that was working for them. He saw potential for translating that vision to San Pedro.

At the time, Marymount was still a two-year school. But they were already in the process of upgrading to a four-year college.

“The university in 2008 was busy becoming a four-year school” said Michael Brophy, Marymount California University president. “By 2010, the college had grown so quickly it was clear that [it] needed to establish itself on 6th Street, particularly for the graduate programs.”

Initial planners included Gary Larson and Marylyn Ginsberg, founder of the Grand House restaurant, The Whale & Ale and Grand Emporium. Ginsberg is a local arts patron. Also included were:

Peter Roth, president of the board of directors at Angels Gate Cultural Center; Beate Kirmse, gallery owner; Alan Johnson, president of Jerico Development; and Linda Grimes, arts manager of the Waterfront Arts District, among others.

“The really exciting thing about having Marymount on 6th Street is that it is much like having Alta Sea (the marine research center) on the waterfront,” said Johnson, who is also a university board trustee. “Gary Larson and I used to say that San Pedro feels like a college town… too bad we don’t have a college.”

Brophy and Marymount University have arguably transformed downtown San Pedro into a college town. On any given day there are about 600 students in the four-block downtown area. The hopes are for the creative and economic impact to be felt in the near future.

Last week Otis College for the Arts released its 2015 Report on the Creative Economy. It

mArCH 20Doug C and the Blacklisted Hillbilly StompDoug C and the Blacklisted are for folks who like Hank Williams Sr. but also have an understanding of Elvis, Black Flag and the Cramps. There is a two-drink minimum. Show starts at 9 p.m. Only people 21 and older are admitted.Details: (562) 239-3700Venue: Harvelle’s Long BeachLocation: 201 E. Broadway Ave., Long Beach

mArCH 21Dale Fielder Quartet 20th Anniversary The Dale Fielder Quartet will have its 20th anniversary performance at 8 p.m. at Alvas Showroom in San Pedro. Dale Fielder is an American jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader. Details: (800) 403-3447; www.alvasshowroom.comVenue: Alvas ShowroomLocation: 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro Attend a SeductionBobbie Burlesque Presents: Seduction at 9:30 p.m. March 21, at Harvelle’s Long Beach. Seduction is a classic burlesque strip show. There is a two-drink minimum. Only people 21 years or older are admitted.Details: (562) 239-3700Venue: Harvelle’s Long BeachLocation: 201 E. Broadway Ave., Long Beach

mArCH 22L. young Sings for youYou’re probably wondering, ‘L. Young who?’ He’s that guy on YouTube singing a Capella all the ‘90s, 2000 and current hits dominating your Facebook feeds. He’ll be performing at 8 p.m. at Harvelle’s Long Beach. L.Young has established himself as an artist, writer and performer. There is a two-drink minimum. Only people 21 years or older are admitted.Details: (562) 239-3700Venue: Harvelle’s Long BeachLocation: 201 E. Broadway Ave., Long Beach

mArCH 25Wicklow Atwater, James Hanicutt & Hangdog HeartsWicklow Atwater, James Hanicutt, & Hangdog Hearts perform at 9 p.m. at Harvelle’s Long Beach. There is a two-drink minimum. Only people 21 years or older are admitted.Details: (562) 239-3700Venue: Harvelle’s Long BeachLocation: 201 E. Broadway Ave., Long Beach

mArCH 27Acoustic Carl VerheyenCarl Verheyen will perform solo acoustic guitar starting at 8 p.m. at Alvas Showroom. In his 40-plus years of playing the instrument, Verheyen has created a wildly successful, multifaceted career.Details: (800) 403-3447; www.alvasshowroom.comVenue: Alvas ShowroomLocation: 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro The Naughty ShowSam Tripoli presents the Naughty Show at 9:30 p.m. at Harvelle’s Long Beach. Sam Tripoli views comedy as a calling rather a profession. There is a two-drink minimum. Only people 21 years or older are admitted.Details: (562) 239-3700Venue: Harvelle’s Long BeachLocation: 201 E. Broadway Ave., Long Beach

mArCH 28Bruce Baker & the Altered Presence Bruce Baker & the Altered Presence jazz band will be having a CD release party at 8 p.m. at Alvas Showroom. Baker is focusing on his own jazz compositions, and is becoming known for his ability to write many jazz styles such as straight-ahead, bebop, Latin, blues, and Broadway-style vocal melodies, while maintaining a unique and unforgettable sound of his own.Details: (800) 403-3447; www.alvasshowroom.comVenue: Alvas ShowroomLocation: 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

Noise Fest XViiiJoin Freda Rente’ a.k.a. Sista Sin, for live music, poetry and art from Blanco Basura with David Imapoet & Duke Rennie. Rente will also perform any combination of punk, funk, and orchestrated/improve dark ethereal. Hip-hop, reggae and rock is represented by Buddah Blaze and Dino Bones, respectively. 21 and older only. It starts at 8 p.m.Details: (310) 832-5503Venue: Harold’s Place Location: 1908 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro

Circus of SinCircus of Sin takes place at 9 p.m. at Harvelle’s Long Beach. There is a two-drink minimum. Only people 21 years or older are admitted.Details: (562) 239-3700Venue: Harvelle’s Long BeachLocation: 201 E. Broadway Ave., Long Beach

mArCH 29Janis mann & Bill Cunliffe DuoThe Janis Mann & Bill Cunliffe Duo will perform at 2 p.m. at Alvas Showroom in San Pedro. An exciting and engaging performer, Janis’ rich timbre, flexibility and range often invite comparisons to Sarah Vaughan. It features an in-studio collaboration with pianist Bill Cunliffe, bassist Christoph Luty and drummer Roy McCurdy.Details: (800) 403-3447; www.alvasshowroom.comVenue: Alvas ShowroomLocation: 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro

APriL 3Sister Spit National TourFounded by author Michelle Tea and filmmaker/artist Sini Anderson, Sister Spit is a nationally touring spoken word showcase featuring queer and queer-inspired writers, artists and poets. Show starts at 7 p.m. Admission is free.Details: (877) 752-1550Venue: MADE in Long Beach Location: 236 Pine Ave., Long Beach

mArCH 21Civil War Lecture SeriesDr. David Miller will give a lecture entitled, A Thralldom Grievous and Intolerable: Slavery, the American Civil War, and the Legacy of Race,” at 10 a.m. at Rancho Los Cerritos. The lecture will last 90 minutes, including time for audience questions. Admission is $7 and $5 for students with a valid ID. Seating is limited, so advance registration is encouraged.Details: (562) 206-2040Venue: Rancho Los CerritosLocation: 4600 Virginia Ave., Long Beach Western museum of Flight Lecture SeriesThe Western Museum of Flight will continue its Celebrity Lecture Series with aircraft crash search specialist G. Pat Macha, at 11 a.m. T-6 flights will also be available with Reno Air Race pilot, Chris LeFave.Details: (310) 326-9544Venue: Western Museum of FlightLocation: 3315 Airport Dr., Torrance

mArCH 25Birding at George F. CanyonExplore the birds now making a home in the restored habitat at the preserve. The program is free and open to the public. All ages are welcome. The program starts at 8:30 a.m.Details: (310) 547-0862Venue: George F. CanyonLocation: 27305 Palos Verdes Drive E., Rolling Hills Estate

mArCH 26Celebrate the eighthLong Beach 8th District Councilmember Al Austin will host “Celebrate the Eighth,” a celebration of accomplishments in the 8th District, at 6 p.m. at the Expo Arts Center. Austin will highlight some of the projects and accomplishments of the last year and give a preview of upcoming projects. He will also recognize residents who have made significant

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fINdings Art Center, Little Fish Theatre, Grand Vision Foundation, the Grand Annex, the Loft Studios, The National Watercolor Society and photographer Annie Appel, were able to use ACE funds to leverage more than $2 million in arts activities in downtown San Pedro.

Finding a vision from this point on remains a challenge for the notoriously contentious board of directors. Many visual artists who initially sat on the board left in frustration when the leadership changed three years ago and the board elected Debra Lewis, the director of Angels Gate Cultural Center, as president. A classic division between visual artists and performing arts organizations is evidenced by a lack of consensus on agenda items, and has been exacerbated by the current leadership’s apparent reluctance to hold membership elections or be more inclusive of the greater arts community.

Founding ACE board member, artist, gallerist and Harbor College Professor Ron Linden has expressed frustration with the use of remaining funds for painting utility boxes.

“My feeling is that they have a very narrow view on utilizing remaining funds” said Linden. Originally, funds were provided for advertising in ArtScene magazine, which is distributed across Los Angeles. In my mind it is a betrayal of the artists who are used primarily as a marketing ploy by the [new] ACE group.”

The ACE website states that San Pedro is home to over 90 visual artists, but the current board now disavows any responsibility for the popular First Thursday Art Walk. The art walk is the most visible evidence in the community of an arts incubator existing in San Pedro. At the same time, the board of directors has seized control of the controversial food truck program, in spite of neverending complaints from the galleries on 6th and 7th streets.

Ray Carafano, of Gallery 478 on 7th Street, said of his experience as a founding board

states that the creative industry is responsible for one in seven jobs in the Los Angeles area. Many examples of economic revitalization can be found in formerly distressed local regions. The Santa Ana Art Walk is a glimpse of what is possible in San Pedro. The placement of the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art is an impressive addition to that arts district.

But in the midst of the excitement, there is controversy. Cultural arts philanthropists Chuck and Marylyn Klaus generously provided the funds that made it possible to acquire the property. Initial plans include classrooms and offices for professors, with donors’ names on the building. But at the opening ceremonies, Chuck Klaus released a strongly worded statement of concern,

that these contractual obligations have not been met. His statement makes it clear that he expects a timeline for the fulfillment of these promises.

“I have known Marylyn for years,” developer Alan Johnson said. “She has been behind the scenes doing a lot of heavy lifting for our town. Downtown San Pedro owes a debt to her.”

Hopes are that this controversy will be resolved soon.

In the meantime, expect to see the Marymount shuttle running through the streets of San Pedro. The shuttle clocks 1,800 miles a month moving 600 students around downtown, and they will be here for a long time, helping to transform the San Pedro arts district.

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member: “My mission was always to raise the quality of visual art being shown in Pedro. I wanted people from other areas to come and make it a destination for art enthusiasts. I felt that if we could accomplish this by putting on great shows and advertising in publications such as ArtScene, the word would get out. I was hoping to put us on the map in the art world.”

He expressed frustration of his inability to keep the focus on artists.

“It wasn’t about the quality anymore” said Carafano. “This was also about the time First Thursday Art Walk started to become more of a circus then an art walk. First the booths on 6th Street and then food trucks, which end up for the “foodies” and not the art seekers. I became frustrated and felt what the ACE committee had the chance to become… [it] was simply going in the wrong direction. It was time to resign my efforts and hope for new spokespersons to come to the fore. ‘I had a dream.’”

Today, Grimes is working on finding sponsorships to keep the group in business, as well as on partnering with the San Pedro Film Festival to explore youth education in the field of animation.

She is discussing a collaboration between the new Marymount College Klaus Center for Media Studies on 6th Street with Blue Wade, chairwoman of Marymount’s arts and media department. So far, Wade has agreed to be on a pre-film panel. Wade and Grimes want to plan an event in the Klaus Center in the fall.

The direction of the new San Pedro Waterfront Arts District may be best summed up in the words of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who said “We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”

Perhaps the local arts organizations may be moving forward faster than the new Waterfront Arts District board of directors. Anyone got GPS?

contributions to the community.Details: http://bixbyknollsinfo.com/expo-arts-center/Venue: Expo Arts CenterLocation: 4321 Atlantic Ave., Long Beach

mArCH 28Gathering for the GrandGrand Vision will have its annual Gathering for the Grand benefit, starting at 5 p.m. at Trump National Golf Club. The evening’s theme is “Giant,” celebrating film stars Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean in a Texas-style epic. Glamorous Western-themed attire and 1950s dress are encouraged.Details: (310) 833-4813Venue: Trump National Golf ClubLocation: 1 Trump National Dr., Rancho Palos Verdes Wisteria regaleThe Banning Museum will host Wisteria Regale, its largest fundraiser of the year, starting at 5 p.m. The theme is “Victorian Masquerade Gala,” and will include music, dinner, a hosted bar and a silent auction.Details: (310) 548-2005Venue: Banning MuseumLocation: 401 E. M St., Wilmington

Nature Walk with L.A. City rangers at White Point Nature Preserve Enjoy a family-oriented walk led by Los Angeles City Rangers, followed by a naturalist-led activity. No reservations required. Walk begins at 10 a.m. every fourth Saturday of the month.Venue: White Point Nature Education Center Location: 1600 W. Paseo del Mar, San Pedro Attracting Birds and Bees to your Garden Join naturalist manager Loretta Rose to learn what to plant and where to plant it in your home garden to attract pollinators. The workshop, from 11 a.m. to noon, is free.Details: RSVP at Info@pvplc.orgVenue: White Point Nature Education CenterLocation: 1600 W. Paseo del Mar, San Pedro.

mArCH 29Complete Whale Watch with Cabrillo marine Aquarium Join a fun-filled adventure that begins with an entertaining, educational slideshow, presented by Larry Fukuhara, programs director at the aquarium, at 8:30 a.m. Then board a whale watch boat in search of the migrating Pacific gray whale. Cost is $22 ($20 for FRIENDS members). Reservations are required.D e t a i l s : ( 3 1 0 ) 5 4 8 - 7 5 6 2 ; w w w .cabrillomarineaquarium.org.Venue: Cabrillo Marine AquariumLocation: 3720 Stephen M. White Dr., San Pedro

mArCH 21 & 29Marilyn Forever - A Full-Length OperaThe Long Beach Opera presents Marilyn Forever, a celebration of Marilyn Monroe’s life, flashed before your eyes through a series of Hollywood vignettes as told by the men who surrounded her. A true American icon, desired by many, but understood by few. March 21 is the U.S. premiere. The opera returns on March 29.Details: https://itkt.choicecrm.net/templates/LBOP/index.phpVenue: Warner Grand TheatreLocation: 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro

mArCH 19mOLAA Presents Fantastic mexicoFantastic Mexico, Fantastic Identity, 20th Century Masterpieces from the FEMSA Collection is an exhibition of over 60 works that were important in Mexico during the 20th century. The exhibition presents masterpieces from landmark moments in modern Mexican art, including a 1914 Diego Rivera cubist work completed during his stay in Paris; Frida Kahlo’s 1933 painting My Dress Hangs There, and two large works by muralists

José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Exhibit runs through July 5.Details: www.molaa.orgVenue: Museum of Latin American ArtLocation: 628 Alamitos Ave., Long Beach

John elgin Woolf: master of Hollywood regencyBorn in Atlanta, Ga. in 1910, John Elgin Woolf moved to Hollywood in 1936 after studying architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology. He hoped his Southern accent would land him a role in Gone with the Wind, but when he met George Cukor, the film’s director, it marked the beginning of a quite different career in the movies. Let into influential circles with Cukor’s assistance, the young designer’s drawings garnered attention, and soon, clients. Opening reception is from 7–9 p.m. There will be a talk by historian and preservation consultant Steven Price.Details: http://pvartcenter.org/exhibitions/woolfVenue: Palos Verdes Art CenterLocation: 5504 West Crestridge Rd., Rancho Palos Verdes

mArCH 20Best of Show and Small TreasuresHosted by PVAC Artists, Best of Show and Small Treasures are juried all-media exhibitions open only to members of the Art Center’s seven artist groups, from 6–9 p.m. The groups are Artists Open Group, Pacific Arts Group, Paletteers, Palos Verdes Painters, Peninsula Artists, Photographic and Digital Artists and Third Dimension. The awards ceremony begins at 7 p.m.Details: http://pvartcenter.org/exhibitions/woolfVenue: Palos Verdes Art CenterLocation: 5504 W. Crestridge Rd., Rancho Palos Verdes

mArCH 23Hyung mo Lee - Lessons LearnedLos Angeles Harbor College Fine Arts Gallery presents Lessons Learned, recent works by Hyung Mo Lee March 23. Lee’s drawings, sculptures, and installations are notable for their radical choice of materials and emphasis on laborious, time-consuming processes. Details: (310) 600-4873Venue: LAHC Fine Arts GalleryLocation: 1111 Figueroa Place, Wilmington

mArCH 28Second Sight: New representations in PhotographyThe Torrance Art Museum at the Joslyn Center invites the public to attend the opening reception of Second Sight: New Representations in Photography, and John Hyatt: My Brush with Angels, from 6–9 p.m. Second Sight ventures beyond preconceived perceptions of what is and what is not photography today. Whether they investigate photographic image-making as object, history, truth, or trompe l’oeil, these artists challenge, push, and ultimately expand upon the lexicon of photography.Details: www.torranceartmuseum.comVenue: Torrance Art MuseumLocation: 3320 Civic Center Dr., Torrance

mid-Century Desert Dream, House raffleAn elegant mid-century vacation home by the master of Hollywood Regency style is just a $150 raffle ticket away for the lucky winner of Palos Verdes Art Center’s 2015 Mid-Century Desert Dream House raffle. This year, only 25,000 tickets will be sold. Early Bird 2 purchase deadline is April 10. Proceeds from the raffle help fund the center’s exhibitions and educational programs. Nestled in the Marrakesh Country Club in Palm Desert, Calif., this home was designed by the legendary architect, John Elgin Woolf. Dubbed “The architect to the stars,” Woolf’s 1960’s luxury style blends classic French and Greek revival design with Modernist touches.Details: http://pvartcenter.org/raffle/2015 or (310) 541-2479

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Fictitious Business Name Statement

File No. 2015038197The following person is doing busi-ness as: Luxe Linen, 1921 N. Gaffey Street, Suite G, San Pedro, CA 90731, Los Angeles County. Registered own-ers: The diva hair Jewelry & Accesso-ries, Inc.333 17th Street.,Manhattan Beach, CA 90266. This Business is conducted by a corporation. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/. dahlia Wexler, President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Feb. 12, 2015. 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. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration.The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Profes-sions code).Original filing: 02/19/2015, 03/05/2015, 03/19/2015, 04/02/2015

Fictitious Business Name Statement

File No. 2015038198The following person is doing busi-ness as: Jacaranda Gourmet, 1030 N. Western Ave., San Pedro, CA 90731, Los Angeles County. Regis-tered owners: Le Meow LLC, 1621 W. 25th Street., #230. This Business is conducted by a Limited Liabil-ity Corporation. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: N/A. I declare that all in-formation in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/. Josephine Trusela, Manager. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Feb. 12, 2015. 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. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration.The filing of this statement does not of

itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Profes-sions code).Original filing: 02/19/2015, 03/05/2015, 03/19/2015, 04/02/2015

Fictitious Business Name Statement

File No. 2015055904The following person is doing busi-ness as: Violet Stone Press, 1379 W. Park Western dr.,Suite 309 San Pedro, Ca 90732. Los Angeles Coun-ty. Registered owners: Roxanne Lawrence, 1360 W. 14th Street, San Pedro, Ca 90731. This Business is conducted by an individual. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/. Roxanne :Lawrence, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on March 3, 2015. 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. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration.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

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90731. This Business is conducted by an individual. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above:12/19/14. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/. Tonali Windslor, owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Jan. 26, 2015. 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. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration.The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Profes-sions code).Original filing: 02/05/2015, 02/19/2015, 03/05/2015, 03/19/2015

Fictitious Business Name Statement

File No. 2015031460The following person is doing busi-ness as: Haley Clark Dance Com-pany, 365 W. 6th Street, San Pedro, CA 90731, Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Jessica Haley-Clark, 365 W. 6th Street, San Pedro, CA 90731. This Business is con-ducted by an individual. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/. Jessica Haley-Clark, owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Feb. 5, 2015. 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. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration.The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Profes-sions code).Original filing: 02/19/2015, 03/05/2015, 03/19/2015, 04/02/2015

from previous page 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Profes-sions code).Original filing: 03/19/2015, 04/02/2015, 04/16/2015, 04/30/2015

Fictitious Business Name Statement

File No. 2015050883The following person is doing busi-ness as: Gaffey St. Diner, 247 N. Gaffey Street, San Pedro, Ca 90731. Los Angeles County. Registered owners: Mary Louise TaLiuLu, 802 Barhugh Pl., San Pedro, Ca 90731. This Business is conducted by an individual. The date registrant started to transact business under the ficti-tious business name or names listed above: N/A. I declare that all infor-mation in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/. Mary Louise TaLiuLu, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on Feb. 26, 2015. 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. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration.The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Profes-sions code).Original filing: 03/19/2015, 04/02/2015, 04/16/2015, 04/30/2015

Fictitious Business Name Statement

File No. 2015055905The following person is doing busi-ness as: Rude Dog Olive, 716 31st St., San Pedro, Ca 90731. Los Ange-les County. Registered owners: Mark Vollmer, 716 31st St., San Pedro, Ca 9073. Patti Vollmer, 716 31st St., San Pedro, Ca 90731. This Business is conducted by a husband and wife.. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A regis-trant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/. Mark Vollmer, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on March 3, 2015. 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. were to expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration.The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 1411 ET SEQ., Business and Profes-sions code).Original filing: 03/19/2015, 04/02/2015, 04/16/2015, 04/30/2015

Notice of Application for Police Permit

Notice is hereby given that applica-tion has been made to the Board of Police Commissioners for a permit to conduct a Massage business. Name of applicant: Byung Min Chung doing business as Sun Acupressure Locat-ed at : 1111 Pacific Coast highway #7, Harbor City, Ca 90710. Any person desiring to protest the Issuance of this permit shall make a written protest before 04/05/2015 to the Los Angeles Police Commission, 100 West First Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012. upon receipt of written protests, protesting persons will be notified of date, time, and place for hearing.Pub date: 03/05/2015, 3/19/2015

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