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Remembering Our Future, Imagining our Past

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By James Preston Allen, Publisher

I have been thinking lately about the number of people I run into who don’t remember what happened even a decade ago, like the battle to change the Los Angeles City Charter to create Neighborhood Councils. It literally took the threat of secession to move this great city to the premise of expanding democracy to a new level. The promise of this new charter has still not been fully realized, even by those who now have the power in their hands to change the city. Something significant has been forgotten.

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Endangered Blue Whales Spotted off Long Beach

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Photos by Diana Lejins

On Aug. 1 , Aquarium of the Pacific and Harbor Breeze Cruises invited the media on a boat excursion to see blue whales and explore recent conservation issues with experts–an event intended to announce the Aquarium’s award winning Whales: Voices in the Sea multimedia exhibit as well as inform readers of the cruises for blue whale watching. Experts from the Aquarium’s blue whale research project will provide updates about the endangered population found off the coast of Southern California.

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Update on Stoneface at Sacred Fools

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French Stewart as Buster Keaton and Joe Fria as Young Buster Keaton

By John Farrell

We gave Stoneface: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Buster Keaton a rave review a month ago, and for those who haven’t seen the play at Sacred Fools in Hollywood, and for those who want to see it again, the run has been extended through August 26.

Stoneface is a mixture of all the things Sacred Fools do so well: moving sets and live music, quick scene changes and two people playing Buster at the same time. The star is the redoubtable French Stewart, who does the same things Buster did (he even has a house fall on him) without breaking his serious expression. It is a tour-de-force performance, sure to win awards, and well worth the journey to Hollywood.

Tickets are $34, $27 for students and seniors. Performances are Thursday, August 9 at 8 p.m., Friday, August 10 at 8 p.m., Saturday, August 11 at 8 p.m., Sunday, August 12 at 2 p.m., Wednesday, August 14 at 8 p.m., Tuesdays-Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m. through August 26.

Details: (310) 281-8337, www.sacredfools.org
Venue: Sacred Fools Theatre
Location: 680 Heliotrope Drive, Los Angeles

Review of Beyond Therapy at Little Fish

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By John Farrell

Some plays are meant for smaller theaters. Beyond Therapy, which opened last week at Little Fish Theatre in San Pedro, is one of them.

When Beyond Therapy appeared on Broadway in 1981, it didn’t last three weeks. But in the 30 odd years since then, it has been performed all over the United States in small theaters and amateur productions. It has been called playwright Christopher Durang’s masterpiece. With a brilliantly selected cast and a simple one-set production (one of the play’s characters notes how her shrink’s office looks just like the restaurant she was recently at) you’ll wonder what Broadway missed. It was probably the plays hidden innocence.

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In Theaters Now: Total Recall

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By Danny Simon

  • Directed by Len Wiseman
  • Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston, Bokeem Woodbine, Bill Nighy, Colin Farrell

Did you learn to play piano as a child or did you pay someone to implant the memory of how you learned to play piano as a child? Wait, don’t answer that.

A bullet just blew a hole in the wall behind you and now pondering that question is irrelevant. Run. Jump. Chase the truth. Violence waits for no man. Screw philosophy. Run. Jump. Kiss the girl. Truth waits for no man. Screw thinking. Run. Jump. Kiss the girl.

Total Recall is filled with gritty CGI, bad acting, and beautiful people. In the future, things will be bad, but love will triumph. This film contains the requisite witty black sidekick, explosions, and cars without wheels. What it doesn’t contain is a purpose.

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Outside Groups On Track to Push 2012 Election Costs Well Past 2008

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According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the 2012 presidential and congressional will be the most expensive on record. The Center predicts, based on data from 18 months of fundraising and spending, that the elections will cost $5.8 billion, an increase of 7 percent from the 2008 cost of $5.4 billion. A significant chunk of that money will be coming from outside groups, the transparency of which are as murky as swamp water.

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White House Small Business Initiatives for Small Business

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Congresswoman Janice Hahn invited Victor Parker, the Los Angeles Small Business Administration District Director to give a presentation on the Obama Administration’s efforts to bolster small businesses, efforts that includes:

  • Increased access to capital through SBA’s Small Loan Advantage (SLA) 2.0 (SBA is re-launching Small Loan Advantage)
  • “Quick App” for surety bond guarantees under $250,000: SBA is launching “QuickApp,” a streamlined application process for contractors to apply for surety bonds
  • Reduced paperwork for SBA’s Disaster Loan Program, which will cut online application procedures to allow families and businesses easier and quicker access to support
  • Accelerated payments to small business subcontractors: Accelerated payments to prime contractors

You’ll need to RSVP Congresswoman Janice Hahn’s office to attend the event. Free underground parking available.

Details: (310) 831-1799 or email hahnRSVP@mail.house.gov
Venue: Port of Los Angeles High School
Location: 250 W. 5th St., San Pedro

PSST: It’s About Damn Time

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By Andrea Serna, Arts Writer

Ron Linden’s curated show PSST — pronounced either as “psssst,” like you’re trying to catch someone’s attention or, perhaps, “pissed,” as in pissed at it taking so long for local artists to get the recognition they deserve. Linden would have you take your pick.

PSST: Art is San Pedro 2000 – 2012 was intended to showcase nationally and internationally renown artists living and working in San Pedro. Linden was frustrated because despite their reputations in the art world, the artists in PSST weren’t getting their just due, particularly in the context of Pacific Standard Time, a Getty Museum led effort that documented the birth of the Los Angeles art scene from 1945 to 1980.

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UndocuQueers Set Out to Create Dialogue

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By Zamna Avila, Assistant Editor

On Aug. 4, The Center Long Beach is hosting Undocuqueer, an informational session exploring the challenges of undocumented gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youths in their dual roles, including a double coming out process and their fight to attain higher education.

The event’s mission is to raise awareness about the intersection of both identities and create unity among the LGBT community.

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An Old Quandary

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An Old Quandary

By Lionel Rolfe

Now that they have found the “God particle,” maybe it’s time to solve far lesser but still deserving and perplexing questions of existence. Perhaps it’s not exactly parallel, because the discovery of the God particle answers more about how the universe came into existence than the far more tangential question of how life was born.

Still, most people would say the universe be damned. If we’re not sleep deprived or hungry, romance remains the foremost thing on most people’s minds. Romance plunges us into emotional maelstroms at the mere glimpse of cleavage. The joys, the ecstatic moments, merge with the mundane in the construction of the bonds with which people are bound.

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