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Preview of Ghost-Writer at ICT in Long Beach

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By John Farrell

There’s an intriguing pun in the title of Michael Hollinger’s playGhost-Writer, which opened last week at International City Theatre in Long Beach.

The ghost-writer in the title is Myra Babbage (Paige Lindsay White) who works for the famous novelist Franklin Woolsey (Leland Crooks) as a type-writer, taking dictation at her machine five days a week as he composes his novels. But she also continues his work, claiming to be inspired by his spirit after he dies in mid-sentence with what she thinks would have been his greatest novel unfinished.

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2012 Long Beach QFilm Festival

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Remembering Long Beach Jazz Festival 2012

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By Melina Paris

So many wonderful artists have graced the stage at Long Beach Jazz Festival in the last 25 years. Al Williams is the integral part in that reign of success–success due to the relationships he’s formed and sustained around the globe. It is those relationships that has allowed him to bring some of the world’s best talent to his annual event at Rainbow Lagoon. This year’s jazz festival was no different with its line up of young talented composer, Eric Darius along with two brilliant and long running bands, which opened on the first night: The Isley Brothers and The Blackbyrds.

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TONI–When YouTube Single Goes Viral, The Sky’s the Limit

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By Melina Paris and Terelle Jerricks
[Editor’s Note: The print edition included a mis-attributed quote to TONI that has been deleted in the online version of the story.]

YouTube views for unsigned independent music artists are probably a better measure than Nielsan Soundscan in determining the likeability of a song. It is the one measure that doesn’t discriminate according to whether you’re signed to a label or have distribution deal.

True, there are some variables to consider, such as how many of an artist’s singles are on the YouTube under a single account, the general online virility of the music video itself. In the most recent edition of Random Lengths News ran a feature on Carson R&B singer Tenelle Luafalemana and her debut single Bulletproof, which garnered 45,000 views in about a month. Around that same period of time, San Pedro singer-songwriter TONI caught our attention with 35,000 views during the same time period. But when we got ready to interview her for this story, the views on her single, “All I Want Is You,’”had rocketed from 35,000 views to 105,000. The change happened in less than a week.

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Leaping Into the Future: Tony Scott’s last leap, Akin’s fall from disgrace and the conspiracy of lemmings

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The Tony Scott suicide is probably the best bad news attributed to San Pedro in a very long time. We’ve finally become a final destination point!

It’s not everyday that a Hollywood celebrity leaps to his death off our celebrated Vincent Thomas Bridge. In fact, unlike the Golden Gate Bridge, where jumpers seemingly line up for the opportunity (over 1,200 since 1937), leapers at our bridge spanning the Port of Los Angeles are relatively rare.

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Red High Heel Party “Moulin Rouge” Fundraiser

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For the third consecutive year, a grassroots effort called The Red High Heel Party will host their annual themed fundraiser, at 7 p.m. Aug. 18, at The Dungeon Bastille in Long Beach.

This year’s theme is “Moulin Rouge,” a colorful interpretation of a Bohemian period of art, love, and beauty.

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Harbor Currents–Announcements–Aug. 15, 2012

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Wilmington Neighborhood Clean Up
Take a stake in you neighborhood, 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Aug. 18, at the Wilmington Branch Library. Neighbors are invited to clean up from “M” Street to Pacific Coast Highway and from Avalon to Broad.
Venue: Wilmington Branch Library
Location: 1300 N. Avalon Blvd., Wilmington

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University Art Museum: Internationally Known, Locally Obscure

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By Andrea Serna

When Chris Scoates arrived in Long Beach there was an expectation that he would create an innovative environment at the Cal State Long Beach campus museum. He has not been disappointed.

As the second director of the University Art Museum, he has built a firm reputation as a published author and curator of exhibitions in a wide variety of genres.

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University Art Museum Exhibits Work of Abstract Artist Linda Day

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By Andrea Serna

The late Linda Adair Day, an internationally recognized award winning artist San Pedro resident, is the subject of an exhibition this fall at the University Art Museum at Cal State Long Beach. Among her honors were grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and multiple residency fellowships. A selection of abstract paintings, collages, and drawings will reflect her concern with symbolic language and the structure of “things unseen.” Day, who passed away last year, exhibited and lectured across the U.S. during her relatively brief career. She was recently featured in “PSST: Art in San Pedro 2000-2012.” An innovative voice in her field she was a much loved educator in the Arts Department at CSULB.

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Preview of a Reprised “Fiddler” at Armstrong Theatre

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By John Farrell

Once every ten years or so an American musical comes along and changes how people think about things.

In 1964,Fiddler on the Rooftook Broadway by storm, and staged 3,000 performances before it closed. It has since been revived professionally ever few years and some of the best voices on Broadway have taken on the role of Tevye, the father of five daughters living in a Jewish shtetl in 1906 Russia, bringing the audience at once into his confidence as he explains Anatevka and its long-time traditions.

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