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Satellite Orchestra Beaming the Funk to You

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Satellite Orchestra Beaming the Funk to You

By Melina Paris, Music Columnist

Satellite Orchestra’s live show keeps the music flowing. Lee likens it to a DJ continuously spinning records in a club. It’s more than a groove though. Many diverse effects are incorporated from instrumental horns to galactic reverberations and are orchestrated together in such a way that it suspends your state of mind and opens it up to new possibilities. I got to see this up close at Café Cordiale in Sherman Oaks this past April.

This Los Angeles based electro-jazz funk trio seamlessly blend funk and cool jazz vibes that is reminiscent of acid jazz but funkier. Electric keyboardist, Rodney Lee, is the leader of the band with drummer Eric Valentine and Andre Barry on electric bass. The band performs numbers composed mostly by Lee. He explained to the audience that he also creates music “on the fly,” live from his laptop as they perform. They do covers as well, adding their own twist of jazz, funk and improvisation. If that’s not enough attention to detail, Lee also sings backup on some of the numbers.

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A.L. Steiner & A.K. Burns Community Action Center

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A.L. Steiner & A.K. Burns Community Action Center

Queer masterminds A.L. Steiner and A.K. Burns bring their sociosexual 1970s porn-romance-liberation inspired Community Action Center, at 9 p.m. June 1, at the Art Theatre

Steiner and Burns will be in attendance for a legendary Q-and-A following the screening. Cost is $5 to $10. All sales benefit The Center Long Beach.
Venue: Art Theatre Long Beach
Location: 2025 E. 4th St., Long Beach

Catfish and The Hollywood Hound Dogs

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Catfish and The Hollywood Hound Dogs

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Catfish and The Hollywood Hound Dogs will perform from 8 to 11 p.m. May 31,
at Alvas Showroom in San Pedro.

The event will feature Johnny Main of the 44’s Catfish and the band will open the
show playing songs from their new CDRite On, Rite Nowrelease. Their music is
high-velocity jump boogie with style and panache, complemented by the
Texas-shuffle style blues of guitarist Johnny Main.

Details:(866) 479-5644www.brownpapertickets.com/event/380795
Venue:Alvas Showroom
Location:1417 W. 8thSt., San Pedro

Harbor Currents: ANNOUNCEMENTS May 23, 2013

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Harbor Currents: ANNOUNCEMENTS May 23, 2013

May 24
Small Business Workshop: How to Comply with the New Health Care Law
Participate in a small workshop to help small business owners and the self-employed learn what the health care law means to small business, starting at 11:30 a.m. May 24, at the Museum of Latin American Art.

  • Learn About:
    Business tax credits – Who’s eligible and how to apply?
    State Health Insurance Exchange
    High-risk Pools
    Shared Responsibility
    Cost Containment
    Small Employer Wellness Programs
    Tools and resources available for small businesses

Details: (323) 810-7167
Venue: MoLAA
Location: 628 Alamitos Ave., Long Beach

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Celebrating the American Spirit

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Celebrating the American Spirit

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The Battleship IOWA will host its first Memorial Day celebration since arriving at the LA Waterfront on May 27.

There will be free carnival games, food concessions, live music by the 40s inspired Lindy Sisters and more.

In honor of Memorial Day, any active military, reservists or veterans with proof of service will be admitted free May 27. Special advanced tickets are available to the general public at a $2 per ticket discount, adults $18 ($16 with discount), youth $10 ($8 with discount) and seniors $15 ($13 with discount.)

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Low Turnout Election Gives Garcetti the Win and Nuch the Boot

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Low Turnout Election Gives Garcetti the Win and Nuch the Boot

Los Angeles Election Results
LOS ANGELES — The unofficial election results for the City of Los Angeles general elections now are available.

Mayor elect-Eric Garcetti beat Controller Wendy Greuel by 28,890 votes in the May 21 election, amid an 11.68 percent voter turnout. In District 15, which includes much of the Harbor Area, voter turnout was 9.7 percent. There, Garcetti lead by 1,351 votes.

The numbers were much different in the race for city attorney, where incumbent City Attorney Carmen Trutanich lost by a landslide of 55,487 votes, against Mike Feuer, despite the support of District 15, where he led against Feuer 5,294 to 4,539 votes.

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LA Approves SCIG, Lawsuits Ahead?

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LA Approves SCIG, Lawsuits Ahead?

By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor

It was deja vu all over again, at the Los Angeles City Council on May 8.Screen shot 2013-05-21 at 12.18.00 PM

The council voted 11-2 to approve the controversial Southern California International Gateway off-dock railyard project, less than two weeks before a new mayor will be elected. Twelve years ago, in its waning weeks, the Richard Riordan administration rushed through approval of the China Shipping terminal project without benefit of an environmental impact report.

The lawsuit that followed eventually transformed the port in many ways, but not enough, it appears, as the Harbor Commission’s closed session agenda the week before the council vote included seven potential Southern California International Gateway-based lawsuits from appellants who were heard—and ignored—by the Los Angeles City Council.

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Art Listings: May 21, 2013

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Art Listings: May 21, 2013

May 26
The Voyeur
The Voyeur is a selection of nudes and erotic art from Museum of Latin American Art’s collection showing through May 26.
The collection includes emblematic works by José Luis Cuevas, Julio Galán, Nelson Garrido and Francisco Toledo, among others.
The titleThe Voyeurreferences one of the works in the exhibition by Jorge Alzaga, while also alluding to the French term meaning “one who looks,” and the studies by feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey on the representations of women—not restricted to cinema but other art forms—sexual fantasies and objectification from a male point of view.

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Meet the Grunion

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June 10

Cabrillo Marine Aquarium will be offering a “Meet the Grunion” program June 10 and 24, and July 10 and 23.

The Aquarium will open at 8 p.m. and a film on grunion begins at 9 p.m. in the John M. Olguin Auditorium. Prior to the predicted run, everyone will gather on the beach to await the grunion. The program cost is $5 for adults and $1 for seniors, students and children. Warm clothing is recommended.

Grunion are small sardine-size fish of the silversides family, which are one of the few fish species in the world that actually come ashore to lay their eggs on sandy beaches. They are found from central California through Baja California, with Cabrillo Beach being one of the better places to observe the fish.

At times the beach may look as if it is covered in a blanket of silver as the wriggling fish arrive to mate. The females burrow into the sand to lay eggs while the males wrap around them to fertilize the eggs. Then both males and females catch the next wave back out to sea. The fertilized eggs incubate for about 9 days in the sand before the tumbling action of the waves from the next series of highest tides cause them to hatch and carries them back out to sea.

Details: (310) 548-7562; www.cabrillomarineaquarium.org
Venue: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium
Location: 3720 Stephen M. White Drive, San Pedro

Electronic Sign Board, Decibel Reader Demonstration

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May 23

Residents along Ocean Boulevard and those with an interest in illegally modified mufflers may participate in a demonstration of a prototype electronic signboard with decibel reader, from 9 to 9:30 a.m. May 23, in front of the Camden Harbor View Apartments in Long Beach.

The electronic signboard with decibel reader notifies motorcyclists and drivers of vehicles with illegally modified mufflers that they are too loud and will be cited.
The sound decibel reader is for public awareness only and will not be used for enforcement purposes.

Venue: Camden Harbor View Apartments
Location: 310 West Ocean Blvd., Long Beach

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