Music to mix with salt air in downtown Hermosa
SHARE Karl Grossman (left, center) and Jack Tracy are among the local musicians who have performed outside during permitted events, such as sidewalk sales. Permits won’t be required under a new ordinance approved by the City Council. Photos by Kevin Cody
Jack Tracy.
by Dan Blackburn
Music will fill the air at a reasonable level to enhance local business and “lift spirits” after the Hermosa Beach City Council voted unanimously to temporarily lift restrictions on live and recorded music in both outdoor and indoor commercial settings. The ordinance, deemed an “urgency,” takes effect immediately.
Oklahoman
NORMAN A registered nurse is suing a Norman hospital for $1.2 million after being fired over a Facebook post calling for the hanging of a Black murder suspect.
Kevin Murnan, 41, had worked at Norman Regional Hospital for 19 years.
He was fired Aug. 27 after commenting on Facebook about the fatal shooting of a 5-year-old boy. Get a big tall tree and a short piece of rope! he wrote.
Attorneys for the hospital are asking Cleveland County District Judge Thad Balkman to dismiss the lawsuit.
They told the judge the hospital did the right thing after Murnan chose to pen his hateful thoughts and send them out into the general public believing there could be no consequence for doing so.
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East Bay singer
Tory Teasley sings a range of genres: blues, funk, R&B, with a sonorous vocal sty, with a background in instrumental music, church choir, and as principal vocalist with Awon Ohun Omnira. Teasley recently released a debut album
Free, Tory, and will perform on February 18 as part of the Piedmont Piano concert series (www.piedmontpiano.com).
J.R. Price is out now with a duet featuring his childhood hero, out artist
Tom Goss. The two teamed up on Dance with Me, an impassioned love song about the incredible power dance has to bring a couple together before the world breaks them apart. This is the second single from Price s upcoming album,
ARTS
The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey
Cinnabar Theater s production of James Lecense s gay-themed solo play, performed by Michael Pavone. Thru Jan. 31. https://cinnabartheater.org/
Ann
Los Altos Stage Company s production of Holland Taylor s one-woman play about the amazing outspoken late Texas Governor Ann Richards, performed by Judith Miller. Jan. 22-24, 29-31. $20 per device. http://losaltosstage.org
Bechtel Fest 8
Chicago s Broken Nose Theatre company presents a series of online plays; the annual festival of new short plays features an ensemble of femme, female-identifying, non-binary, trans and queer actors talking about things other than men; free, thru March 26. https://brokennosetheatre.com/