August 2012 - Beyond Chron

California, Labor Day 2012: Why California Employers Remain Reluctant to Hire

Posted August 31, 2012 by Michael Bernick

As we head into Labor Day 2012, California is better off in several ways than it was the previous four Labor Days. Payroll job growth has continued steadily over the past year. The most recent monthly jobs report for California Read More »

Karrin Allyson Comes to the Rrazz Room

Posted August 31, 2012 by E. "Doc" Smith

Karrin Allyson has been described by the L.A. Times writer Don Heckman, as a “musician’s musician,” and for once the overused term actually makes sense — a complete performance by a complete artist — one of the jazz world’s finest”. Read More »

Rights of Passage – A World Premiere

Posted August 31, 2012 by Buzzin' Lee Hartgrave

The play is glorious to look at. You will be pleased and enchanted with the visuals as traditional storytelling, includes puppets, masks and wonderful bright colors. You become enraptured with the beauty and different cultures. That’s the upside. The downside Read More »

Honoring Vin Scully, Baseball’s Greatest Announcer, On Bobblehead Night

Posted August 30, 2012 by Randy Shaw

Tonight is Vin Scully bobblehead night in Los Angeles, a fitting honor for baseball’s all-time greatest announcer. I first listened to Scully nearly fifty years ago, growing up in Los Angeles as a Giants fan who hated the Dodgers but Read More »

The GOP Parties Like It’s 1984

Posted August 30, 2012 by Theo Anderson

The script of the Republican National Convention reads like a Rambo reboot, with Democrats as the villains. The GOP may disdain the liberal Hollywood elite, but it sure has learned the Hollywood art of the sequel. The first night of Read More »

Will Malcolm Yeung Replace Carmen Chu as San Francisco’s District 4 Supervisor?

Posted August 29, 2012 by Randy Shaw

While San Francisco voters focus on Supervisor races in Districts 1, 5 and 7, the November elections could also create an opening in District 4. Assessor Phil Ting is a lock to become San Francisco’s newest West Side Assemblyperson, and Read More »

Urge Governor Brown to Sign Election Day Voter Registration

Posted August 29, 2012 by Paul Hogarth

While the right-wing imposes oppressive “voter ID” laws to disenfranchise minority and low-income communities, California has a chance to buck the national trend. Both houses of the State Legislature have passed AB 1436, which establishes same-day voter registration – and Read More »

Good Week for California Renters: Four Tenant Rights Bills Land on the Governor’s Desk

Posted August 29, 2012 by Dean Preston of Tenants Together

We don’t get to say this much, but this was a good week for renters in Sacramento. Despite realtor and landlord campaign contributions and the undue influence they bring, a number of good renters’ rights bills have made it through Read More »