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Oct. 11
The Facebook Portraits
The Palos Verdes Art Center/Beverly G. Alpay Center for Arts Education presents The Facebook Portraits, featuring Los Angeles artist, Mike Reynolds, opening Oct. 11, at the Norris Gallery of the center.
Mike Reynolds is a multidisciplinary artist currently working in the traditional practice of oil painting. Drawing on tenuous personal connections through social media, Reynolds leverages handmade objects against online ego to gently prod at hierarchy, privacy, psyche, and persona (both real and imagined). He is adamantly opposed to the use of detached irony in art. The Facebook Portraits has been a yearlong project where Reynolds selects subjects from social media (some of the individuals he has met, others he has never met) and then then pursues a kind of personal editorial process (part intuition, part following their updates, part hierarchy) as the painting is developed. When the portrait is completed, Reynolds then privately shows the person depicted. If the subject likes the painting, it gets posted online. If they disagree with the representation/project, the portrait gets “redacted” – that is, disfigured, “anonymized” through a series of brusque abstractions, and the altered work is exhibited. Both types of portraits are represented in the exhibition.
The exhibit, curated by Joe Baker, will run through Jan. 5, 2014. The member pre-opening reception will begin at 5 p.m. Oct. 11, with the general public opening to following from 6-8 p.m. The exhibition is free.
Also exhibiting in the Yassin and WalkerGalleries, I Love My Dog – an exhibition celebrating the relationship between man and dog featuring historical and contemporary artists to include paintings from the AmericanKennelMuseum of the Dog, artists William Wegman, Doug Meyer, Antoine Bootz, and Siri Devi Khandavilli. A series of architectural dog houses from architects and student-collectives from the area’s most accomplished designers will also be included.
Details: (310) 541-2479; www.pvartcenter.org
Venue: Palos Verdes Art Center
Location: 5504 W. Crestridge Road, Rancho Palos Verdes

Oct. 14
Light and Color
Light and Color, the light-capturing landscapes of oil painter Joy Gonzalez and portrait artist Carol Hungerford with fused-glass free-standing menageries by Karen Pester, will be on exhibit Oct. 14 through Nov. 14, at the Promenade on the Peninsula in Rolling Hills Estates.
For oil painters Joy Gonzalez and Carol Hungerford, light strikes the subject of the painting and illuminates its form, altering its local color. When the correct hue and value are chosen, the form emerges from the painted surface. For glass artist Karen Pester, light passes through the iridescent colored glass and adds its radiant characteristics to the sculptural form.
Meet the artists and enjoy live music and light refreshments at a reception from 4 to 7 p.m. Oct. 19.
Details: (310) 541-2479or visit:www.pvartcenter.org
Venue: Promenade on the Peninsula
Location:550 Deep Valley Drive, Gallery #159, Rolling Hills Estates

Oct. 19
Something from Nothing
View a bunch of original art pieces by 22, made almost entirely out of recycled materials, at 1:22 p.m. Oct. 19, at Top Sekoms Headquarters in Long Beach.
The event includes live performances by Solo tha Secret, Konsept and Los Dos.
Details: http://tinyurl.com/m8vy989
Venue: Top Sekoms Headquarters
Location: 1023 4th St., Long Beach

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Sin Is In The Air

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Sin Is In The Air

By John Farrell, Curtain Call Writer

There is a beauty in flying over the homes from the sky of the San Francisco Bay Area. But for Avery, (Christine Cummings,) the reporter who sees the city from the air every day, everything else in her life is in doubt.

In Wendy Macleod’sSin, set on the weekend of the Loma Prieta earthquake, the seven deadly sins (you remember them) are personified by the people Avery knows. Her husband Michael (Matthew Anderson) is drunkenness, a doctor who consumes so much tequila his hands shakes. Her pilot Fred is (Jason Rogel) is envy. Her roommate Helen (Kaliko Kauahi) is gluttony.

In Amy Louise Sibelius’ production ofSinthe actors sit on boxes around the theater’s periphery, watching the action. That action takes place on boxes in the middle of the Garage’s small theater. There is little action, few props, but Macleod’s dynamic and very funny dialogue is up front. Cummings is perfectly cast as Avery, a driven woman who eats nothing but healthy food and exercises regularly. She is thin and elegant and easy to believe. The other players are much more than just stereotypes: Fred is passionately unhappy and Helen eats everything and obsesses about it all.

The play is complex and very much of the 80s, with the AIDS epidemic and the earthquake up front. But it is also a classical tale, a modern version of a medieval play, a piece that is entertaining and effective and also leaves a lot for thought.

Tickets are $18 and $15 for students and seniors. Performances are at 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, through Nov. 2.

Details:(562) 433-8337;www.thegaragethatre.org
Venue: Garage Theatre
Location:251 E. 7th St., Long Beach

Long Beach Taking Steps Toward Better Water Conservation (But Needs to Take More)

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Long Beach Taking Steps Toward Better Water Conservation (But Needs to Take More)

Whether you write it off to conspicuous consumerism, favoring style over substance, or blatant disregard for environmental constrictions, Southern California pays a heavy cost for its vast acreage of European-style, non-native grass.

How heavy? According to the Long Beach Water Department…

• 50% of all residential water use in Long Beach goes toward landscape irrigation.
• Annually Long Beach uses approximately 15 times more water for irrigating lawns than it receives in rainfall.
• 20% of California’s total energy use is water-related.
• 27% of Southern California’s water is imported from Northern California.

Such realities, along with the fact that California’s population is on the rise (the U.S. Census Bureau estimates that California now has roughly a million more residents than it did in 2010), means that water conservation becomes ever more important.

One way that the City of Long Beach is responding is its Lawn-to-Garden program, which offers homeowners and homeowners’ associations (HOAs) $3 per sq. ft. in reimbursements—up to $3,000 total—for costs related to converting lawns into native, drought-resistant flora. And considering that over 3,000 types of plant fit the conversion specifications, it’s not like we’re talking about only cacti and succulents.

To date approximately 900 homes have benefitted from such conversions, which is a good start.

But is the City doing enough? That seems an obvious question when you consider that, according to public records, the City owns 1,008 acres of parkland, only four acres of which support native flora, with plans in the works to convert only an additional seven acres.

That leaves 997 acres of City-owned non-native flora. And while not all of this is suitable for conversion, presumably much of it is. How much? Random Lengths News was referred to Ramon Arevalo, bureau manager for Maintenance Operations at the Department of Parks, Recreation & Marine, but Arevalo did not respond to RLn‘s repeated requests for this information.

In an initial conversation Arevalo gave the City high marks for its work in this area, noting that his division’s share of the FY2014 is unchanged from FY2013, “which is a great thing for us.”

Arevalo says much of his division’s current focus is on water audits, which will help determine which areas need more efficient sprinkler heads, which areas should be removed from the water schedule entirely, etc., changes he says have already paid big dividends, with water use over the last year being reduced from 1,013,000 ccf to 770,000 ccf.

“And that’s adding additional parks and stuff,” he says. “So we’ve been doing our job as far as we can to reduce water use in the city. […] We’ve done a lot of work [along these lines], such as in Recreation Park. But additional work is needed in many of our parks. It all has to do with identifying more and more funding—which the City has been phenomenal in giving us and helping us out.”

But there is much more work to be done.

“If we as a city and we as a state don’t continue looking at how we can become less dependent on water, we’re going to be in trouble,” says Arevalo. “So we’re going to do everything we can to do that.”

As if the environmental considerations were not enough, the State of California has provided cities with an extra financial incentive to decrease water usage. The Water Conservation Act of 2009 mandates that every city that does not decrease its water usage by 20 percent* by 2020 will lose its eligibility to receive State grant funding and loans.

Closer to home, in 2014 Long Beach residents will experience a 4% increase in water rates over this year.

“[Water] is an expensive commodity, and we know that,” Arevalo says. “And it’s become more and more of an issue for us—not just the expense, but how we can conserve this valuable asset. Because we’re in a desert. I think we’re all finally realizing that.”

 

(*Reduced 20% from what is a bit tricky to determine, but for Long Beach it’s the yearly average between 1996 and 2005. According to the Water Department’s Joyce Barkley, Long Beach is on pace to meet its goal.)

Theater Calendar

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Theater Calendar

October 6
San Pedro Film Festival
The San Pedro Film Festival will be at the Warner Grand Theatre through Oct. 6.
The festival will present new films from top international film festivals around the globe.
Details: www.spiffest.org
Venue: Warner Grand Theatre
Location:478 W. 6th St., San Pedro

October 6
Signal HIll Speed Run/Day of the Dead Shred
The Warner Grand Theatre will be screening Signal Hill Speed Run and Day of the Dead Shred at 4:30 p.m., Oct. 6.
The story is about the Signal Hill Speed Run which was the world’s first skateboard race and the world’s most dangerous. Men and Women hurled down the steep top, risking life and limb for bragging rights.
The Day of the Dead Shred takes viewers to San Pedro where it showcases the beauty of what a modern skate park looks like. It was constructed on a low budget with the blood, sweat and tears of local skateboarders.
Details: www.spiffest.org
Venue: Warner Grand Theatre
Location:478 W. 6th St., San Pedro

Hometown Heroines
The San Pedro Film Festival is showing Hometown Heroines at 3 p.m., Oct. 6.
Equal pay, designer clothes and respect. It’s the story about the greatest generation that you’ve never heard. The movie introduces a group of quirky, independent and determined women who went where no other women had gone before: into the Navy as Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service.
Details: www.spiffest.org
Venue: Warner Grand Theatre
Location: 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro
October 10
NOSFERATU Live Score Screening
The Long Beach Cinematheque presents the NOSFERATU Live Score Screening at 8 p.m., Oct. 10.
NOSFERATU is F.W. Murnau’s 1922 German vampire classic.
Admission is $10.
Details: www.nosferatu-lb.eventbrite.com
Venue: SunnysideCemetery
Location:1095 E. Willow St., Long Beach

October 11
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
The Neil Young: Heart of Gold concert film will take place at 8 p.m., Oct. 11.
The film documents Young’s premiere of songs from his album Prairie Wind.
Admission is $12.
Details: (310) 833-4813; www.grandvision.org
Venue: Warner Grand Theatre
Location:478 W. 6th St., San Pedro

October 13
Loose Ends
The Cal State University of Dominguez Hills presents Loose Ends at 8 p.m., Oct. 11, 12, 18 and 19.
Loose Ends delves into the relationship between a couple as they navigate dating, love and marriage in the exciting, turbulent, quirky and quickly changing 1970s, and the balancing act of life.
Admission is $15 and $12 for seniors and students.
Details: (310) 243-3589; www.csudh.edu/theatre/tickets
Venue: CSUDH, Edison Theatre
Location:1000 E. Victoria St., Carson

October 17
Eraserhead
The Long Beach Cinematheque presents an outdoor screening of Eraserhead at 8 p.m., Oct. 17.
The screening will take place at the Cal State University Long Beach campuses’ Los Alamitos Lawn.
Details: www.lbcinema.org
Venue: CSULB, Alamitos Lawn
Location:1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach

October 19
Varese Sarabande 35th Anniversary
The Golden State Pops Orchestra presents its Varese Sarabande 35th Anniversary at 8 p.m., Oct. 19.
Join GSPO as they celebrate Varese Sarabande with this special Halloween edition. The concert presents highlights from the label’s past, celebrating the rich variety of music used for Halloween and horror films.
Tickets range from $28.50 to $60.
Details: (424) 703-4776; www.gspo.com
Venue: Warner Grand Theatre

Location:478 W. 6th St., San Pedro

 

Family/Community Calendar

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Family/Community Calendar

October 5
Yard and Boutique Sale
The San Pedro Bay Historical Society is holding a Yard and Boutique Sale from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Oct. 5.
Treasures include antiques, furniture, dishes, linens, toys, clothes and other household items.
Details: www.sanpedrobayhistoricalsociety.org; sanpedrohistory@gmail.com
Venue: PlazaPark
Location: 1495 Beacon St., San Pedro

October 6
Little Known Stories of Terminal Island
The San Pedro Bay Historical Society presents Little Known Stories of Terminal Island at 1:30 p.m., Oct. 6.
The speaker will be Executive Director of the Port, Geraldine Knatz.
Details: www.sanpedrobayhistoricalsociety.org; sanpedrohistory@gmail.com
Venue: Community Room inside Cabrillo Marina on Berth 28
Location: Berth 28, San Pedro
 
October 9
Battleship Iowa Extends Free Visits to Veterans During Federal Shutdown
The U.S.S. Iowa Battleship is giving veterans free admission for tours during the federal government shutdown in Oct. Usually the cost of admission would be $18. The battleship is open daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Details: www.pacificbattleship.com
 
Location: 250 S. Harbor Blvd., San Pedro
Speak Out Workshop
The Speak Out Workshop is an eight-week workshop held during Oct. and Nov.
The workshop will create stimulating, supportive and safe environment to help students gain greater knowledge and skill in speech communication as a means to developing their own potential.
The classes will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. on Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 and Nov. 6, 13 and 20.
Venue:MacArthurPark, Manazar Community Theatre
Location: 1323 Gundry Ave., Long Beach
 
Intro to Acting for Youth
Homeland Players Presents Intro to Acting for Youth from 4 to 6 p.m. Oct. 9.
The class is also being held Oct. 16, 23, 30 and Nov. 6.
Venue: MacArthurPark, Manazar Community Theatre
Location: 1323 Gundry Ave., Long Beach
 
October 12
3rd Annual Reenactment of Battle of the Old Woman’s Gun
The Dominguez Rancho presents the 3rd Annual Battle of the Old Woman’s Gun reenactment starting at 10 a.m. on Oct. 12 and 13.
There will be food and drinks for purchase. Donations are welcome.
Details: (310) 603-0088; abruesehoff@domgineuzrancho.org
Venue: DominguezRanchoAdobeMuseum
Location: 18127 S. Alameda St., Rancho Domingue
 
2-Day Honor California’s History Event
The Rancho Dominguez Adobe Museum will host a 2-day event to honor California’s history from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Oct. 12 and 13.
This is a 1840s California based living history featuring battle reenactments.
Details: (310) 603-0088; www.dominguezrancho.com
Venue: DominguezRanchoAdobeMuseum
Location: 18127 S. Alameda St., Rancho Dominguez
 
Salt Marsh Open House
The Cabrillo Marine Aquarium hosts the Salt Marsh Open House from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., Oct. 12.
Bring your binoculars, journals, cameras and sketchpads for your curiosity. Discover many animal residents of the salt marsh.
Details: (310) 548-7562; www.cabrillomarineaquarium.org
Venue: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium
Location: 3720 Stephen M. White Dr., San Pedro
 
San Pedro Bay Historical Society Point Fermin Tour
The San Pedro Bay Historical Society will offer a tour Point Fermin at 10 a.m., Oct. 12.
Discover the history and heritage of the breeziest point of San Pedro.
Details: www.sanpedrobayhistoricalsociety.org; sanpedrohistory@gmail.com
Venue: Point Fermin, JohnOlguinMonument
Location: 807 W. PaseoDel Mar, San Pedro
 
October 13
Volunteers Needed for World Water Monitoring Challenge
The Cabrillo Marine Aquarium needs volunteers for its World Water Monitoring Challenge from 12 to 2 p.m., Oct. 13.
The program encourages communities to monitor local rivers, streams, estuaries and other water bodies from Mar. 22 to Dec. 31 and report them to www.monitorwater.org.
This is a great opportunity to learn what you can do to conserve water and decrease pollution entering our streams and oceans.
Details: (310) 548-7562; www.cabrillomarineaquarium.org
Venue: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium
Location: 3720 Stephen M. White Dr., San Pedro
 
Trick or Trot 2013
Bring the whole family to GreenHillsMemorial Park for pre-halloween fun at 10:30 a.m., Oct. 13.
Hay rides, pony rides, petting zoo, arts and crafts, pumpkin patch, corn maze and 5K walk/run.
Details: (310) 521-4460
Venue:GreenHillsMemorial park
Location:27501 S. Western Ave., Rancho Palos Verdes
 
October 20
Autumn Sea Fair
The Cabrillo Marine Aquarium is hosting the Autumn Sea Fair from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Oct. 20.
Children will enjoy ocean-related activities and those in attendance can gain information from dozens of local marine-based organizations.
Also enjoy food, live entertainment and exhibits.
Details: (310) 548-7562; www.cabrillomarineaquarium.org
Venue: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium
Location: 3720 Stephen M. White Dr., San Pedro
 
October 25
Swing Peedro Halloween
Swing Peedro Halloween is featuring a swinging performance by Jan Kain and her Dancing Zombies, featuring the Fabulous Esquires Big Band at 7 p.m., Oct. 25. Enjoy the spacious and beautiful dance floor, learn some new moves and dance to one of SoCal’s top swing bands.
Admission is $15 in advance and $25 at the door.
Details: (310) 547-2348; www.swingpeedro.com
Venue:PeoplesPalace
Location:365 W. 6th St., San Pedro
 
October 26
Sea Scare
The Cabrillo Marine Aquarium is hosting its 8th annual Halloween event, Sea Scare from 6 to 9 p.m., Oct. 26. Everyone is encouraged to attend wearing costumes.
The aquarium will host a treasure hunt, crafts, tours and more.
Admission is $5 and $1 for seniors and children. Aquarium members get in for free.
Details: (310) 548-7562; www.cabrillomarineaquarium.org
Venue: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium
Location: 3720 Stephen M. White Dr., San Pedro
 
October 27
San Pedro Library Knit and Crochet Club
The San Pedro Library Knit and Crochet Club are meeting from 1 to 4 p.m., Oct. 27 at the MullerHouseMuseum.
Details: www.sanpedrobayhistoricalsociety.org; sanpedrohistory@gmail.com
Venue: MullerHouseMuseum
Location:1495 Beacon St., San Pedro

NWSPNC Views Ponte Vista Revisions

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NWSPNC Views Ponte Vista Revisions

The Northwest San Pedro Neighborhood Council’s Planning and Land Use Committee is meeting at 9 a.m. Oct. 5, at the Harbor Division Station Community Room to view a presentation of the Ponte Vista Plan Revisions.

Details: click here
Venue: Harbor Division Station Community Room
Location: 2175 S. John Gibson Blvd., San Pedro

APL Names Newest Container Vessel

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APL Names Newest Container Vessel

SAN PEDRO – On Oct. 4, APL named a 9,200-TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit) containership at the Port of Los Angeles, The APL Savannah.

The vessel is the fifth in a series of twelve 9,200-TEU vessels to be delivered to APL, the container shipping arm of Singapore-based shipping and logistics company Neptune Orient Lines. It also is the first containership to be named and christened at the Port of Los Angeles.

APL Savannah and its sister ships are the largest in the APL fleet to ply the Trans-Pacific trade between Asia and the United Stateson the South Asia Express service, rotating ports in San Pedro, Busan, Kaohsiung, Chiwan, Yantian and Singapore.

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Knatz Resigns Harbor Department Post

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Knatz Resigns Harbor Department Post

SAN PEDRO — On Oct. 3, Harbor Department General Manager Dr.Geraldine Knatz announced she will be retiring at the end of the year.

Knatz, who was the first female executive port director in Los Angeles, has worked for the Southern California maritime industry for about 42 years. She has worked at both the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa appointed Knatz to the top position of the port in 2006. She was instrumental in implementing the ground-breaking San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan that has reduced air pollutants by 51 percent to 71 percent in various categories since 2005.

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Suspect of More Than 40 Burglaries Arrested

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LONG BEACH — Israel Valencia, 33, was arrested Sept. 30, suspected of several burglaries in Long Beach.
Valencia was booked for burglary and receiving known stolen property after a routine traffic stop near 10 Street and Ohio Avenue in Long Beach. He is suspected of being responsible for more than 40 burglaries in east Long Beach.

During the traffic stop Long Beach Police Department officers found several car stereos and GPS units. Victims were contacted, identified their items and agreed to prosecute.

On Oct. 2, the case was presented to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, which filed six counts of burglary against Valencia. He is expected to appear in court Oct. 9.
Anyone with information about these burglaries is asked to call (562) 570-7362 or visit www.LACrimeStoppers.org.

Brown Signs Bill Protecting California Journalist

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Brown Signs Bill Protecting California Journalist

SACRAMENTO – On Oct. 3,Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a Sen. Ted W. Lieu bill mandating that reporters and their news organizations be given five days’ notice of any subpoenas of their records held by others.

Those records include phone calls or other invasions of their newsgathering communications, according to Senate Bill 558, sponsored by the California Newspaper Publishers Association.

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