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Los Angeles Celebrates Beer Week

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Michael Koger, Contributing Writer

Within the past few years, LA Beer Week has steadily been growing.

With the influx of new breweries since last years, this year’s celebration should be bigger and better than ever. LA Beer Week starts on Sept. 20 and runs all the way through Sept. 30, with the final day culminating in an epic event near Union Station in downtown LA. Many bars and breweries throughout the area will be hosting their own events.

Here are my personal selections:

Sept. 20
Kick off LA Beer Week properly at Naja’s Place in Redondo Beach where they’ll be hosting a local brewery tap takeover. Naja’s will be featuring Bootlegger’s, The Bruery, Monkish, Eagle Rock, El Segundo, Monkish and other breweries from LA and Orange County. This is a great opportunity to see what all of the great local breweries have to offer at one of the finest craft beer bars in the city. If you’re not feeling up to it, you can check out the sneak peek of Stone Brewing Company’s new store in Pasadena. Tickets and info. for Stone’s sneak peek are available here.

Sept. 22

Ditch the car and hop aboard the South Bay Shuttle Bus, which will ferry you to four breweries and brewpubs for $15. With your ticket, you get to visit El Segundo Brewing Co., The Brewery at Abigaile, Monkish Brewing Co., and Beachwood BBQ and Brewing in Long Beach. Each stop will feature special deals on beer, and you don’t have to worry about driving. Tickets and more information can be found here.

Sept. 20
Beachwood BBQ in Seal Beach is hosting a three daylong Farmhouse Ale Fest. This is a great opportunity to try out saisons and other funky farmhouse ales from local breweries like Smog City and Monkish as well as other breweries from around the United States and the world like Logsdon Brewing and Upright Brewing.

Sept. 23
Koreatown’s Beer Belly tavern is hosting its Craft for Crap event. The premise is simple. Bring in a can or bottle of what might be considered “crap” beer (Bud Lite, Natty Ice, MGD Lite, etc.,) and get an outstanding local craft beer for just a penny.

Sept. 30
Hop on the Metro and ride to Union Station for the culminating event. The final LA Beer Week celebration brings together more than 70 breweries from around the world under one roof. In addition to sampling some of the tastiest brews, a host of LA’s famous food trucks will be there as well to help feed your hunger. Tickets are $50 but you have unlimited beer tastings. The price of admission does not include food. Click here for ticket info.

Of course, these are just a few of the events that will be happening all across the city. If you’re interested and want to see what else is going on, check out the official L.A. Beer Week website or find them on Facebook and Twitter.

Cheers!

Long Beach Pay Cut Plan Moves Ahead

Terelle Jerricks
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Kevin Walker, Long Beach Reporter

The Long Beach City Council voted to move ahead with plans cap employee compensation at a contentious Sept. 18 meeting.

Council members voted 6-2, with District 3 Councilman Gary Delong absent, to request that City Attorney Robert Shannon draft a potential ballot measure that would rollback compensation for non-public safety city workers to 2010 levels for the 2014-2015 fiscal year.

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Was President John Adams a Closet Socialist?

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obamaFairyForbes Magazine article reveals first national health care act passed in 1798

By James Preston Allen, Publisher

These days the “we’re so right that we’ll drive the country off the cliff” crowd have come to call President Barack Obama a “Socialist” for his signature legislation to provide health care to millions of uninsured Americans and to regulate an industry that has basically run amuck.

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Harbor Currents–COMMUNITY & FAMILY–Sept. 18, 2012

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Sept. 20
Night at the Aquarium
District 6 Councilman Dee Andrews and the Aquarium of the Pacific invite residence to a free community evening at the Aquarium of the Pacific, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Sept. 20.
Reservations are required.
Details: (562) 570-6816
Venue:Aquarium of the Pacific
Location: 100 Aquarium Way, Long Beach

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Friendly PBID Ambassador Not So Friendly

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Employee of Downtown San Pedro’s Community Safety Ambassador Program Threatens Patron, 71

By Arthur R. Vinsel

Devante Head is one of those young yellow-shirted bicycle patrolmen paid by the Downtown San Pedro Property Owners Business Improvement District (PBID) to reassure folks that central San Pedro is safe for shoppers and diners.

He lost sight of that PBID mission Friday, Aug. 31, when the outdoor Farmer’s Market and The 99 Cents Only Store(cq trademark) were extra busy with Social Security recipients who got checks early before Labor Day Weekend.

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Harbor Currents–Entertainment–Sept. 13, 2012

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ENTERTAINMENT
Sept. 22
Festival Gay Latino
Check out the Festival Gay Latino in Long Beach, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sept. 22, at Marina Green Park. Cumbia diva Vilma Diaz and La Sonora will headline the festival. This event will benefit California Families in Focus, an organization that serves the needs of families and children in the Long Beach area. California Families in Focus is known for their many charitable events such as the annual Spirit of Christmas Brunch, which serves over 700 children and families during the holiday season. They are committed to serving the community with leadership development, gang prevention, youth advocacy, youth mentoring, health/nutrition
programs, conferences and workshops. The event will include live performances, specialty foods, teen and children areas and health screenings.
Details: www.lbfestivallatino.com
Venue: Marina Green Park
Location: 386 E. Shoreline Drive, Long Beach

Sept. 28
Swing Peedro
Experience Swing Peedro, starting at 7 p.m. Sept. 28, in People’s Palace in San Pedro. The event will feature Barry Anthony and Silvia Rodriguez along with band, The
Swing of Things. Cost is $15 in advance and $20 at the door.
Details: www.SwingPeedro.com
Venue: People’s Palace
Location: 365 W. 6th St., San Pedro

Emus Loose in Egnar: Big Stories from Small Towns BookReview

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By Lyn Jensen

“With all the hand-wringing about the ‘death of journalism,’ it is more than a little ironic that small-town newspapers have been thriving by practicing what the mainstream media are now preaching: Hyper-localism, Citizen Journalism, Advocacy Journalism—these are some of the latest buzzwords of the profession,” so begins Emus Loose in Egnar. “But the concepts have been around for ages at small-town newspapers.”

Award-winning journalist Judy Muller argues in her latest book that the press—in the form of print media industry–still thrives in small-town communities for “the corniest of reasons: Our freedoms depend on it [and] it’s a job small towns will probably always need done.”

Some may take exception to Muller’s use of “corniest” to describe freedoms guaranteed under the First Amendment, but in Emus she guides readers through dozens of small-market communities and their newspapers. She finds towns where generations of journalists have, often at considerable risk, spent their lives reporting on racial strife and other extremely controversial topics. She finds even in relatively quiet communities, police blotter stories (such as loose emus in Egnar, Colorado), school sports, and local obituaries provide towns with a method of communication that new media simply can’t match.

Muller lives in the small town of Norwood, Colorado, when she’s not teaching journalism at USC, so she’s able to provide first-hand observations of that town’s rivalry with nearby Tellerude as reported through the local papers. Although she makes a convincing argument that community journalism in its print form isn’t dead (my primary employer Random Lengths is one of many outlets that prove that), she’s less successful at demonstrating a workable business model for professional journalists to follow.

Many of the businesses she spends time with have slim budgets and overhead, and don’t appear to boast full-time professional experienced or trained staff. Many are portrayed as somehow getting by with part-timers, volunteers, and a few people who admit they can’t write but object to being edited.

Muller’s book makes a persuasive case on the need for small-town newspapers but just how those papers are expected to provide a source of income for their publisher and employees—who sometimes risk firebombing and just plain dislike—is a more difficult question and a subject for another book.

Review of the Fantasticks at Theatre West

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By John Farrell, Photos by Thomas Mikusz

Theatre West is a Los Angeles landmark which has been producing plays for fifty years now, most recently in their theater in the stretch of Cahuenga Blvd. just west of Universal City.

The Fantasticks, the musical by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt which opened at Theatre West the first week of September (Sunday, September 8’s performance is reviewed here) can do better than that. The Fantasticks opened in 1960, ran for 46 years in New York, closed in 2006, re-opened in 2006 and is still going strong. It is the longest-running play in the United States, the longest running musical, and has been performed in more than 11,000 productions in two dozen languages. Whew!

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Review of LB Playhouse’s “The Changeling”: Whoa Nelly!

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By John Farrell

There have been changes aplenty at the Long Beach Playhouse recently such as staging musicals there when they haven’t hosted a musical in years; putting on serious plays that might never have been given a chance; collaborating with other theater companies and staging a two-week long festival of new plays.

But the biggest change of all may be seen on Friday and Saturday nights and Sunday matinees through September 29. Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’sThe Changeling, a Jacobean tragicomedy directed by Dave Barton that takes the classic drama and expands it to modern dress and modern attitudes. Premiered less than a decade after Shakespeare’s death, the play is violent, desperate, and frankly distasteful. One of its main characters suffers from a horrible skin disease, others are madmen or pretend madmen, and before the night is over, seven are killed.

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Harbor Currents–Announcements–Sept. 12, 2012

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Sept. 12
Become a Docent
Join the docent crew at the Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum. The museum is offering two session one on the weekday evening and one on Saturday mornings. Evening sessions take place, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Sept. 12 and 29, and Oct. 3. Saturday sessions take place, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., Sept. 22, and Oct. 6, 20 and 27.

Docent training sessions an also be scheduled by appointment. Part of the training sessions involves meeting with other docents at an outing for all docents. Docents are volunteer tour guides, trained to further the public’s understanding of the cultural and historical significance of the Dominguez family and the rich history of California with a focus on Southern California.
Details: (310) 603-0088; dominguezrancho.org
Venue: Department of Veterans Affairs
Location: 5901 E. 7th St, Long Beach

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