July 20
JR & The Reelize Band
Reelize Entertainment specializes in musical tribute shows in the 70’s, Doo Whop and the Motown Sound. We specialize in Blues, Gospel, R & B, Hip- Hop all played with a LIVE band! The show starts at 9 p.m.
Venue: Seabird Jazz Lounge
Location: 730 E. Broadway, Long Beach
Read July 18, 2012 update at the end.
Los Angeles–On June 28, the Los Angeles Unified School District board approved the 2012-13 budget by a 6 to 1 vote that fully funds after-school programs, and provides partial funding for adult education and early childhood education. According to the LAUSD’s media relations department, Adult Ed has been restored by 48percent, and 105,000 students will be served.
July 19
Harbor Commission Meeting
The next Harbor Commission meeting is at 8:30 a.m. July 19, at the Port of Los Angeles Administration Building in San Pedro. Click here for agenda.
Venue: Port of Los Angeles Administration Building
Location: 425 S. Palos Verdes St., San Pedro
July 19
POLA Hosts Public Workshop on Master Plan Update
The Port of Los Angeles invites community members to a public workshop on the Port Master Plan Update, at 6 p.m. July 19, at Banning’s Landing Community Center in Wilmington.
Wilmington–On July 28, Tom Sitton, author of Grand Ventures: The Banning Family and the Shaping of Southern California will be giving a talk on the role of pioneer Phineas Banning and his descendants in the rise of the Harbor Area. He will primarily focus on the second generation and their ownership of Santa Catalina Island from 1892 to 1919. There will be a fifteen minute question and answer session after the lecture followed by a book signing.
FREE for Friends of Banning Museum members and children under 12, and $5 for non-members. Starts at 10a.m.
San Pedro–Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa representative, Ricardo Hong, announced at the last Central Neighborhood Council meeting, July 10, the mayor’s office will be hosting a big party in honor of war veterans complete with live entertainment in front of the USS Iowa, on November 10 or 12.
November 11 couldn’t be booked because a cruise ship will making a port of call that day. Hong said the Villaraigosa administration is aiming to book big names for the event, and is working out the details, so that it’s free for participants.
San Pedro–There will be an open house for the John and Muriel Olguin campus of San Pedro High School on Aug. 9.
The Campus will open with 500 students, a combination of Marine Science and Mathematics Magnet students, Police Academy Magnet students, and 40 resident San Pedro High School students that are chosen by lottery. The state of the art campus will offer students opportunities to pursue their interests in the Marine Sciences and Law Enforcement.
By James Preston Allen
There has been a grand display of hand wringing lately about deficit spending. So much so, that three cities in the state of California have committed civic suicide and voted to file for bankruptcy rather than face the music of declining revenues.
Every Republican, from Mitt Romney on down is crying about the national debt, now topping $15.8 trillion, and the news media only amplifies the conservative mantra “the sky is falling” without ever putting it in historical perspective.
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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, currently at the very comfortable Huntington Beach Playhouse (there’s free parking and the playhouse is part of the city’s library complex) takes you back to a past you probably never had, but knew about, where nerdy kids whose only friend was the dictionary and competed to be the best speller in their town. Now it’s the Academic Decathlon, and gets a lot more respect.
Spelling Beewas a big Broadway hit a few years back, and its combination of teenage angst, lively songs, audience participation (four people from the audience are in the show) and improvisation have made it a continuing favorite for smaller theaters around the country. It was staged at the La Mirada Center for the Performing Arts a few years ago.
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