[gallery ids="9790,9791,9789,9824,9825,9826,9827,9828,9829,9830"] By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor Sixty-two-year-old Gerald Robinson was sweeping up litter and dirt around his possessions at about 7:30 a.m. April 27. All of his possessions were folded and packaged neatly inside five shopping carts—not including the o
Read MoreBy Gina Ruccione, Cuisine Writer If you really want to impress mom this Mother’s Day, try something you haven’t done before. The Dalmatian-American Club recently aquired the highly–decorated chef from the Elks Lodge, Tony Pielin. They now offer monthly bottomless mimosa brunches at a fraction of the price that most other ve
Read MoreBy Andrea Serna, arts and culture writer Photographer Ray Carofano has fallen into the Los Angeles River. Well, not literally. Known for his black and white photography of the California Mojave Desert, he now has had an encounter with the Los Angeles River that has elevated his color palette and subject matter with a dramatic look at the 51-mile
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Meta Housing Corporation Completes Its First Family Arts Colony SAN PEDRO – Meta Housing Corporation has completed its first “family arts colony” apartment project - a new, 49-unit arts-focused affordable apartment community that integrates artistic live-work space in the San Pedro. The community, the Pacific Avenue Arts Co
Read MoreOriginally published in the Baltimore City Paper at 6:09 a.m. EDT, April 28, 2015
The city erupted in fire Monday.
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Read MoreTeamsters Picket the Harbor LONG BEACH — On April 27, the Teamsters union started informational picketing at the Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles. The Teamsters are targeting four non-union trucking companies: Pacific 9 Transportation, Intermodal Bridge Transport, Pacer Cartage and Harbor Rail Transport. The comp
Read MoreAltaSea Selects Designer SAN PEDRO — Gensler, a Los Angeles-based architectural firm, will design three buildings for the 28-acre AltaSea marine research and interpretive center in San Pedro. The firm will design a 20,000-square-foot visitors’ center, a 60,000-square-foot retrofit of the Berth 37 warehouse into classrooms for
Read MoreMayor Garcetti Breaks Ground on Water Recycling Project TERMINAL ISLAND – On April 22, Mayor Garcetti broke ground on the Terminal Island Advanced Water Purification Facility Expansion project. Once completed in 2017, the expanded plant will produce 12 million gallons of purified recycled water daily, more than doubling the c
Read MoreBy Peter Mathews Free Trade and the North American Free Trade Agreement worked very well for the top 1 percent, mostly super rich corporate owners. For the bottom 99 percent of Americans, mostly workers, Free Trade and NAFTA are a disaster, as we’ve seen. And yet, American corporate elites and th
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