{"id":10937,"date":"2019-12-05T17:23:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T01:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=30000005117"},"modified":"2019-12-05T18:37:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T02:37:14","slug":"podcast-death-of-a-dance-club-rip-ripples-artist-lajon-miller-transforms-boxes-and-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/podcast-death-of-a-dance-club-rip-ripples-artist-lajon-miller-transforms-boxes-and-lives","title":{"rendered":"PODCAST: Death of a dance club, RIP Ripples; artist LaJon Miller transforms boxes and lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/723422665&amp;color=%23e54360&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Episode #26 of &#8220;CAN YOU HEAR ME, LONG BEACH?\u201d we speak to Brian Addison about the <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/addison-ripples-closed-lgbtq-history\">passing of Ripples<\/a>, the iconic gay dance club that closed its doors for good in November. Brian spoke of the cultural, generational and business reasons for the closing and how, in some ways, it&#8217;s a sign about how far we&#8217;ve all come.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10000009721\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10000009721\" style=\"width: 3024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10000009721\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191105_155410160-e1575591892679.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10000009721\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LaJon Miller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Asia Morris speaks with LaJon Miller about transforming the utility boxes around the Billie Jean King Main Library, and his life, through art. Asia sighs.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Old Prospector sings Adele<br \/>\n0:56 &#8220;It&#8217;s a little bit country, a little bit I&#8217;m wearing a retainer.&#8221;<br \/>\n3:58 Brian Addison talks about the closing of Ripples<br \/>\n13:05 Mayor Robert Garcia&#8217;s gay bar count disputed<br \/>\n13:28 Health of Long Beach&#8217;s gar bar scene<br \/>\n21:28 &#8220;Stop talking Asia&#8221;<br \/>\n21:35 Artist LaJon Miller<br \/>\n31:44 &#8220;I didn&#8217;t look back&#8221;<br \/>\n47:30 I&#8217;m gonna quit my job and become an artist&#8221;<br \/>\n48:17 Nani!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to Episode #26 of &#8220;CAN YOU HEAR ME, LONG BEACH?\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":70704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[2890],"class_list":["post-10937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","post_format-post-format-audio","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10937"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=10937"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}