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No Investigation into LB Harbor Commission

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Kevin Walker, Long Beach Reporter

Long Beach City Attorney Robert Shannon blocked a request by the city council for an independent investigation of Harbor Commissioner Doug Drummond’s charges of cronyism and bribery amongst two of his commission colleagues.

Drummond made the allegation during a closed session of the Harbor Commission on Aug. 20 and came to public attention when a letter written by Commissioner Thomas Fields to Mayor Bob Foster and City Attorney Shannon was leaked to the Long Beach Press Telegram.

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The Railroad Revival Tour Has Been Cancelled

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By B. Noel Barr, Music Writer Dude

In what appears to be a move to cut losses on an 8-date concert tour, the Railroad Revival Tour featuring country music star Willie Nelson is officially cancelled. The bottom line is that there’s no money to fund these concerts across the United States. Without large investors and major sponsor participation, it is very hard to stage an event of this scale. Depending on ticket sale exclusively is not something that works very well in most cases.

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California’s Medical Marijuana Wars

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California’s Medical Marijuana Wars

Editorial Note: The online edition corrects an error made in the print edition of Random Lengths regarding the outcome of the vote. We regret the confusion.

By Kevin Walker, Contributing Writer

A three month old ban on dispensaries selling medical marijuana in the city of Los Angeles was repealed in an 11-2 vote on Tuesday Oct.2 by the City Council. Councilman Joe Buscaino’s vote was one of the minority. The council’s move will keep a referendum on the now defunct ban off the March 5 ballot when Angeleno’s will head to the polls to vote on, among other things, who will replace Antonio Villaraigosa as the city’s next mayor.

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https://www.randomlengthsnews.com/category/news/at_length/Screams From the Balcony of the Irate Right

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IrrateRightEvery Four Years the Bolts Seem to Come off the Wheels of the Republican Go-cart

By James Preston Allen, Publisher

I know that you’ve all seen the emails and Facebook postings proclaiming Obama to be a socialist, a closet Muslim or even still from the “birthers” that he wasn’t even born here! It seems like the closer it appears that he might actually win re-election the more irate the screams from the Republican balcony become. You will note that I print the occasional rant from my right-wing critics in our letters column. I do so relishing the idea that I’m both providing a space for them to exercise their rights to free speech and exposing Random Lengths readers to the fact that not all of our neighbors are left leaning card carrying unionists.

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Preview of “Bach at Leipzig” at Little Fish Theatre

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By John Farrell

If you want to see Johann Sebastian Bach in action, then you probably don’t want to see Bach at Leipzig, the enormously informative and entertaining slapstick farce that is currently at the Little Fish Theatre on the weekends through October 14.

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Preview of “Noise Off” at Norris Theatre

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By John Farrell

You’d be surprised by just how many laughs you can get with a plate of sardines.

Then again, maybe you wouldn’t, because thousands of people have laughed at Michael Frayn’s Noises Off since it first premiered in London 30 years ago. If you’ve seen it, you’ll want to see it again at the Norris Theater in Rolling Hills Estates, where it is playing weekends through October 7. And if you haven’t seen it, do yourself the favor of going and discovering just how funny sardines and actors can be.

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Lee M. Anderson Died Sept. 24, 2012

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On Sept. 24, Lee Marie Anderson, widow of former congressman and California Lt. Gov. Glenn Anderson (1959 – 1967), died from from complications of melanoma at the age of 87.

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In Theaters Now: The Master

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  • Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams

After fighting in the Pacific theatre of World War II, Freddie Quell, played by Joaquin Phoenix, returns home a lost soul teetering on the brink of madness. By chance, Quell encounters the charismatic Lancaster Dodd, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, who indoctrinates the disturbed veteran into The Cause, a fledgling cult that promises its members a better way of life. But as an uncooperative convert, Quell’s disruptive nature threatens to wash the Cause onto the shoals of the American psyche.

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Chasing Endeavour

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Chasing Endeavour

By Lionel Rolfe

I stood on the banks of the Los Angeles River in order to get a glimpse of Endeavour flying over the southeast end of the Santa Monica Mountains on its way to Griffith Park Observatory.

It would have been much better, of course, to get up to the observatory, a mile or two west of the river bank. Endeavour was scheduled to fly as close to the observatory as it safely could. Whereas here by the river, the precipitous southeastern mountains blocked a direct view of the action around the observatory.

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Preview of the LB Playhouse’s The Glass Menagerie

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By John Farrell

The Glass Menagerie is great American playwright, Tennessee Williams, first play and the Long Beach Playhouse will give it more than just a respectable revival through the middle of next month. But perhaps the key word should actually be “respectful” instead.

Phyllis B. Gitlin directs the play and though she uses her stage effectively, Glass Menagerie is treated as the classic it is. It may take another century before we get to see Williams done innovatively.

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