Three yet-to-be-announced bands are playing, and restaurants along The Promenade will be selling drinks and food.
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Theater News: Carpenter Center hosts performances from Charo, Mandy Patinkin and the Miles Electric Band
Brace yourself this weekend and next as three performances electrify the Carpenter Performing Arts Center stage — the Miles Electric Band, guitarist Charo, and Broadway performer and actor Mandy Patinkin.
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California Democrats have new plans for confronting ICE: Taxes, lawsuits and location bans
The California Senate passed a bill that would make it easier to sue federal officers over civil rights violations. Recent shootings of civilians by immigration agents in Minnesota lent urgency to the measure, one of several targeting ICE.
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Cambodian genocide survivor detained by ICE
Sithy Yi was detained despite a pending visa application. She’s one of potentially hundreds of crime and human trafficking victims impacted by policy changes, attorneys say
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Lawsuit alleges inhumane conditions at Adelanto ICE facility
The lawsuit alleges people detained in the Adelanto facility lack drinkable water, healthy food, clean clothes, places to sleep and access to medical care.
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All Amazon Fresh grocery stores to close, including Long Beach location
Some will be converted into Whole Foods markets.
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Woman killed while crossing PCH near LBCC campus, police say
The crash happened around 5:55 a.m. between Orange and Gundry avenues, police said.
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Long Beach moves WIC office to health center at Houghton Park
The food benefits program for Women, Infants and Children serves 13,400 Long Beach residents.
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How to help homeless college students: A Cal State Long Beach professor studies what works
“I think political tides can suggest to us that helping more students with shorter-term responses can feel better, but deeper investment in a smaller number of students has more actual beneficial outcomes for students.”
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Anti-ICE protesters rally in Long Beach, condemn agents’ killing of man in Minneapolis
Elected leaders of Long Beach have also denounced the killing.