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.
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.
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.
SANTA ANA – Chad Peter Smanjak, who resided in Long Beach before he fled the country, faces up to five years in prison after admitting that he orchestrated a “pump-and-dump” stock scheme to generate demand for a penny stock issued by a sports drink company founded by Notre Dame football legend Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger.
LONG BEACH — Mayor Bob Foster recently released his fiscal year 2013 budget. The Long Beach charter requires the mayor to give his budget by Aug. 1 so that the Long Beach City Council can pass a balanced budget not later than Sept. 15.
Near the end of The Bourne Ultimatum, Jason Bourne outs the clandestine program that created him and jumps from a building top into the East River. His motionless body slowly descends. There’s no undoing what’s been done, though maybe there’s redemption in death? And then his body stirs and the credits role.
It’s not the weather. That helps. But neither is it the heat in the confines of Little Fish Theatre that makes it hell for an hour and a half.
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By Melina Paris, Contributing Writer
Most folks don’t realize that the City of Carson is a hotbed of talent, giving rise to the likes of Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E., Ras Kass, Brandy and Ray J, and even The Game and Dr. Dre for a hot minute when they were kids.
The city may have yet another star in its midst with the rise of singer and songwriter Tenelle Luafalemana, who has been getting a lot of online buzz lately with her single, “Bulletproof,” off of her still untitled album scheduled for release in January 2013.
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On Aug. 9, elected officials, parents, students, and alumni celebrated the expansion of San Pedro High School into two integrated campuses with the opening of the John M. and Muriel Olguin campus. The Olguin campus includes a world-class swimming pool, a new synthetic turf soccer field and a gymnasium that will house the Pirate basketball and volleyball teams. The Olguin campus will also house the marine science and police academy student learning community
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