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His second -- and last -- record came out two years later, and while neither took off, his reputation as a must-see live act flourished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10896794\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10896794 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalker2-800x942.jpg\" alt=\"Troy Walker was a very pretty boy, something he learned early on to use to his advantage onstage. “My first line was, ‘My name’s Troy Walker and whatever you’re thinking, you’re right,'" he says.\" width=\"800\" height=\"942\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalker2-800x942.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalker2-400x471.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalker2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalker2-1180x1390.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalker2-960x1131.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Troy Walker was a very pretty boy, something he learned early on to use to his advantage onstage. “My first line was, ‘My name’s Troy Walker and whatever you’re thinking, you’re right,'\" he says. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He was on fire, packing rooms and drawing names like Ricky Nelson, Natalie Wood, Ronald Reagan and Elvis himself. He shared the stage with everyone from Ella Fitzgerald to Pat Collins the Hip Hypnotist. He joked, he trash talked, he worked risque but never mean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was a dazzling, flamboyant attraction, meaning he was as openly gay as an act could be in those closeted times. But it wasn’t really camp, it was just who he was. And that was something that may have hindered his professional growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I often wondered why the big [career] push wasn’t made and I just kind of decided, well, nobody wanted at that time to affiliate themselves with a somewhat effete, somewhat maybe feminine man. It was that age.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker survived, playing all manner of nightspots. For years he was an attraction at the legendary Palomino Club in North Hollywood. “I became the headliner at the Palomino,” he states. “[Owner] Tommy Thomas called me and asked me to come and I said, ‘They’ll stone me,’ 'cause it was very country. But I wound up there for 17 years every Tuesday night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so it was that five years ago he began singing at Cody Bryant’s Viva Cantina, a Mexican restaurant in Burbank that’s become the singer’s monthly gig, backed by guitarist Bryant’s house band for the last five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So who does he draw?” asks Bryant. “For some people it’s a freak show, [there’s] some intelligentsia, some hipsters. He cuts a funny path across a lot of personality types. But he’s infinitely human, and that’s what translates to everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes people like Jan Damiano, who go way back with Walker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He taught me to do the twist on Sunset Strip at the Interlude,” she says after a recent Walker set at the Cantina. “My husband and I went there and we learned the twist, and we were twisting everywhere, Miami and everywhere, but I learned from him. It’s a long time ago! He loves his audience. And that’s why people come back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10896853\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalkerad.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10896853 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalkerad-800x477.jpg\" alt=\"An advertisement for a 1981 Troy Walker performance well encapsulates the singer's approach to gender normativity.\" width=\"800\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalkerad.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalkerad-400x239.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An advertisement for a 1981 Troy Walker performance well encapsulates the singer's approach to gender normativity.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I let them know I was there for them,” says Walker of his audience. “A lot of performers don’t project that. They don’t have that thing about letting them know you really are grateful they’re there, and that’s a feeling you have to have to be a good performer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Kenny, the actor/comedian and voice of SpongeBob SquarePants, has been a Walker follower for years, catching him whenever he can. Like snowflakes and fingerprints, Walker’s sets are never the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You really never know what you’re going to get with Troy,” offers Kenny. “A lot of it seems to depend on what mood he’s in and what he’s going through and what songs are resonating with him on a given night, so the shows are kind of like a really long medley mash-up of the American songbook, with dirty jokes peppered in between. What’s not to like?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker uses no set list, but moves from song to song seemingly on a whim, rarely finishing anything. You might hear a chorus, a couple verses, and then it’s on to something else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The music follows him,” says Damiano. “He goes where he wants, he segues on a word. He sails. He floats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to kind of guess,” offers Bryant. “You have to listen, you have to make your ears go out 3 feet on the side of your head to figure out where in the hell he’s going to go. And to make him look good. You want him to look good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10896846\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10896846 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TomKenny-800x567.jpg\" alt='Actor Tom Kenny, voice of SpongeBob SquarePants, has been a Troy Walker fan for years calling his shows \"kind of like a really long medley mash-up of the American songbook, with dirty jokes peppered in between.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TomKenny-800x567.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TomKenny-400x284.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TomKenny.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TomKenny-1180x836.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TomKenny-960x681.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Actor Tom Kenny, voice of SpongeBob SquarePants, has been a Troy Walker fan for years, calling his shows \"kind of like a really long medley mash-up of the American songbook, with dirty jokes peppered in between.\" \u003ccite>(Brad Barket/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And really, that’s the thing. Everybody’s rooting for Troy. He’s lovable. He’s impish. He’s a pussycat who’s had a lot of lives but no grand strategy for success. His 50-year career vision has never extended beyond the last set of the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t say that I had a real plan,” Walker admits. “I just came to Hollywood and people asked me what I did and I said, ‘I’m a singer.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he does it all for the nice people out there in the dark who have been filling the seats—or most of them—for this unique act that never ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They give a meaning to my life,” Walker says of his loyal followers. “They want me, even if nobody else does, and I guess that’s the way I qualify what I do. People have no idea, they lay things out like ego and selfishness, but it’s not that at all. If every night you get 20 or 30 minutes of this [he claps] and standing ovations periodically, and you say, “Wow. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I walked into a bar on Hollywood Boulevard, and the young man behind the piano asked me if I could sing. I’d sing in school, so I said, ‘Yep,’ and he gave me the microphone and I sang a song. I was only 19. And the owner came over and asked me if I could come in every night and sing a couple songs and he’d give me 10 bucks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/251447759&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/251447759'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the time I was downright broke, and I asked if I could get an advance because my rent was due. At that time it was nine bucks a week. He said, ‘Don’t try and con me, kid.’ I told him I’d be back the next night. That’s how it started, and it’s been that way ever since.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker was, to put it mildly, a very pretty boy, something that he learned to use to his advantage onstage. “My first line was, ‘My name’s Troy Walker and whatever you’re thinking, you’re right.’ It just worked for me,” he says. “‘Mommy wanted a girl, Daddy wanted a boy, now they’re both happy.’ I played with it rather than let it bring me down. And it worked fine because I was never out of work, never have been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flamboyant young Walker developed a set of current hits and standards recorded by artists he admired like Judy Garland, Johnny Ray and Johnny Mathis. His chops were formidable; his ability to sell a song and give his all to the crowd was immense. He released his first album in 1962. His second -- and last -- record came out two years later, and while neither took off, his reputation as a must-see live act flourished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10896794\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10896794 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalker2-800x942.jpg\" alt=\"Troy Walker was a very pretty boy, something he learned early on to use to his advantage onstage. “My first line was, ‘My name’s Troy Walker and whatever you’re thinking, you’re right,'" he says.\" width=\"800\" height=\"942\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalker2-800x942.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalker2-400x471.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalker2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalker2-1180x1390.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalker2-960x1131.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Troy Walker was a very pretty boy, something he learned early on to use to his advantage onstage. “My first line was, ‘My name’s Troy Walker and whatever you’re thinking, you’re right,'\" he says. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He was on fire, packing rooms and drawing names like Ricky Nelson, Natalie Wood, Ronald Reagan and Elvis himself. He shared the stage with everyone from Ella Fitzgerald to Pat Collins the Hip Hypnotist. He joked, he trash talked, he worked risque but never mean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was a dazzling, flamboyant attraction, meaning he was as openly gay as an act could be in those closeted times. But it wasn’t really camp, it was just who he was. And that was something that may have hindered his professional growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I often wondered why the big [career] push wasn’t made and I just kind of decided, well, nobody wanted at that time to affiliate themselves with a somewhat effete, somewhat maybe feminine man. It was that age.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker survived, playing all manner of nightspots. For years he was an attraction at the legendary Palomino Club in North Hollywood. “I became the headliner at the Palomino,” he states. “[Owner] Tommy Thomas called me and asked me to come and I said, ‘They’ll stone me,’ 'cause it was very country. But I wound up there for 17 years every Tuesday night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so it was that five years ago he began singing at Cody Bryant’s Viva Cantina, a Mexican restaurant in Burbank that’s become the singer’s monthly gig, backed by guitarist Bryant’s house band for the last five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So who does he draw?” asks Bryant. “For some people it’s a freak show, [there’s] some intelligentsia, some hipsters. He cuts a funny path across a lot of personality types. But he’s infinitely human, and that’s what translates to everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes people like Jan Damiano, who go way back with Walker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He taught me to do the twist on Sunset Strip at the Interlude,” she says after a recent Walker set at the Cantina. “My husband and I went there and we learned the twist, and we were twisting everywhere, Miami and everywhere, but I learned from him. It’s a long time ago! He loves his audience. And that’s why people come back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10896853\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalkerad.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10896853 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalkerad-800x477.jpg\" alt=\"An advertisement for a 1981 Troy Walker performance well encapsulates the singer's approach to gender normativity.\" width=\"800\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalkerad.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TroyWalkerad-400x239.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An advertisement for a 1981 Troy Walker performance well encapsulates the singer's approach to gender normativity.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I let them know I was there for them,” says Walker of his audience. “A lot of performers don’t project that. They don’t have that thing about letting them know you really are grateful they’re there, and that’s a feeling you have to have to be a good performer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Kenny, the actor/comedian and voice of SpongeBob SquarePants, has been a Walker follower for years, catching him whenever he can. Like snowflakes and fingerprints, Walker’s sets are never the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You really never know what you’re going to get with Troy,” offers Kenny. “A lot of it seems to depend on what mood he’s in and what he’s going through and what songs are resonating with him on a given night, so the shows are kind of like a really long medley mash-up of the American songbook, with dirty jokes peppered in between. What’s not to like?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker uses no set list, but moves from song to song seemingly on a whim, rarely finishing anything. 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You want him to look good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10896846\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10896846 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TomKenny-800x567.jpg\" alt='Actor Tom Kenny, voice of SpongeBob SquarePants, has been a Troy Walker fan for years calling his shows \"kind of like a really long medley mash-up of the American songbook, with dirty jokes peppered in between.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TomKenny-800x567.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TomKenny-400x284.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TomKenny.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TomKenny-1180x836.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/TomKenny-960x681.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Actor Tom Kenny, voice of SpongeBob SquarePants, has been a Troy Walker fan for years, calling his shows \"kind of like a really long medley mash-up of the American songbook, with dirty jokes peppered in between.\" \u003ccite>(Brad Barket/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And really, that’s the thing. 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"content": "\u003cp>Los Angeles police say they're testing a knife that was reportedly found at the estate of O.J. Simpson years after his 1995 acquittal for the stabbing deaths of his former wife and another man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2016/03/04/oj-simpson-knife-found-murders-nicole-brown/\" target=\"_blank\">TMZ\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-knife-found-on-o-j-simpson-property-being-tested-by-lapd-20160304-story.html\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/a> and other outlets citing police sources, the knife was discovered in 1998 by a worker involved in \u003ca href=\"http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-07-30/news/9807300184_1_nicole-simpson-and-goldman-bundy-drive-condominium-ronald-goldman\" target=\"_blank\">the demolition of Simpson's home\u003c/a>. The worker reportedly turned the knife over to a police officer who was working off-duty providing security at a nearby movie location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But LAPD Capt. Andrew Neiman said in a Friday morning press conference that it wasn't until the last month or so that the Police Department learned of the knife's discovery and obtained it from the officer, who is now retired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neiman confirmed that the knife is being tested for DNA. But he also said investigators are checking into the story behind the knife's reported recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not sure if the whole story is bogus from the get-go,\" Neiman told reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neiman did not identify the officer who is said to have received the knife, and he said the identity of the worker who recovered it is unknown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole Brown Simpson and a friend, Ron Goldman, were found stabbed to death outside her home in L.A.'s Brentwood neighborhood early the morning of June 12, 1994.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O.J. Simpson, a native of San Francisco's Potrero Heights, a superstar NFL running back, actor and TV pitchman, was charged with the murders and acquitted in 1995. Under the Constitution's prohibition of double jeopardy, Simpson can't be tried again for the killings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grisly nature of the murders, the celebrity and bizarre initial behavior of the suspect and the racial overtones of the murder trial combined to make the case a spectacle that more than 20 years later still commands wide public attention. The case is the subject of a new FX Network series, \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/the-people-v-oj-simpson-american-crime-story/episodes\" target=\"_blank\">The People v. O.J. Simpson.\u003c/a>\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After his acquittal, Simpson was found liable in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the families of his two alleged victims. The judgment in the case, $33.5 million, along with his legal fees and the end of his acting and advertising career, led to his loss of the Brentwood estate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simpson is now serving \u003ca href=\"http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevada/nevada-supreme-court-rejects-oj-simpsons-appeal\" target=\"_blank\">a nine- to 33-year prison sentence\u003c/a> in Nevada for a 2008 conviction on kidnapping and robbery charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-knife-found-on-o-j-simpson-property-being-tested-by-lapd-20160304-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Times reports\u003c/a> this reaction to Friday's knife disclosure from one of the lawyers who defended Simpson:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Attorney Carl Douglas -- a member of O.J. Simpson's legal \"dream team\" that secured his 1995 acquittal in the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman -- on Friday called the story \"ridiculous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's amazing how the world cannot move on from this case!\" Douglas said. \"And it, and the media, is apparently still fascinated by everything O.J. Simpson.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Douglas said he remembers that \"there were indications that two different knives may have been used. One with a straight edge, and one with a serrated edge.\" But he cautions that people sometimes will do anything for 15 minutes of fame.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the Times also provides \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-knife-found-on-o-j-simpson-property-being-tested-by-lapd-20160304-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">some background\u003c/a> on the search for the murder weapon in the Simpson-Goldman murders:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Authorities searched for the murder weapon for months after the slayings, and there have been many leads that went cold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 15-inch knife with a retractable blade that Simpson purchased at Ross Cutlery in downtown Los Angeles briefly tantalized prosecutors in his criminal trial. They thought it might be the murder weapon, and even asked a coroner to compare that type of blade with the slicing and stabbing wounds of the victims. The fact that no one could locate the knife only added to the intrigue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the defense produced the knife -- in an envelope that became known as the \"mystery envelope\" in the preliminary hearing. Forensic tests later revealed that the knife was in pristine condition, with no scratches or bloodstains to suggest it had been used in the vicious double homicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors in Simpson's criminal trial never introduced it as evidence.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>For three days and nights, several thousand volunteers have fanned out across Los Angeles County trying to get an accurate tally of the county's immense homeless population. The Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count is considered the largest such effort in the nation. The count is now done annually, one of several changes intended to make it more efficient and effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conducting a \u003ca href=\"http://www.theycountwillyou.org/\">homeless count \u003c/a>is not easy. Volunteers traipse into dry river bottoms, push through thick brush at public parks and cruise along dimly lit city streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/244233532\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteer counters are discouraged from having too much interaction with people -- there’s a more comprehensive census-style survey that is done separately from the actual counting -- or from disturbing people holed up in makeshift outdoor shelters or vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10847788\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?attachment_id=10847788\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10847788 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/homless-count-the-2015-homeless-count-demographic-survey-p1-normal.gif\" alt=\"The L.A. County annual homeless count includes a more comprehensive census-style survey portion that's done separately from the actual counting.\" width=\"700\" height=\"906\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The L.A. County annual homeless count includes a more comprehensive census-style survey portion that's done separately from the actual counting. \u003ccite>(Los Angeles County Homeless Authority)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So volunteers, typically led by members of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lahsa.org/\">Los Angeles County Homeless Authority’s \u003c/a>street outreach team, typically rely on their own intuition, instinct and internal extrapolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an imperfect science, to be sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The way the count is conducted, it is often done drive-by, right. You're in a car looking for people, but really the people are not to be found,” says Wade Trimmer, director of the \u003ca href=\"http://sfvrescuemission.org/\">San Fernando Rescue Mission\u003c/a>, about 30 miles northeast of downtown L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trimmer says there’s been a significant spike in the San Fernando Valley’s homeless population. But he doesn’t think it’s accurately reflected in recent L.A. County homeless counts, partly because of how the count is done: mostly at night by relatively inexperienced volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you look at downtown [Los Angeles], it makes a lot of sense to count at night because people are congregated downtown at night,\" says Trimmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn't make as much sense to me to do the count at night in the San Fernando Valley because people are not congregating on the street,\" he says. \"They’re finding a place to sleep, they're in the canyons or behind a building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can be frustrating, says Trimmer, because shelters and other services depend on the data collected during the count. It’s the number cited by local leaders to justify spending more or less of their own resources. It’s how the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development figures how much money to give L.A. County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848007\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"People wait for a meal outside the Midnight Mission on Skid Row. Roughly half of L.A. County’s homeless live in the city of Los Angeles, several thousand in shelters and on the streets of downtown’s Skid Row. \" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10848007\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-800x518.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-400x259.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-768x498.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-1440x933.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-1180x765.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-960x622.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wait for a meal outside the Midnight Mission on Skid Row. Roughly half of L.A. County’s homeless live in the city of Los Angeles, several thousand in shelters and on the streets of downtown’s Skid Row. \u003ccite>(ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It helps us advocate for our fair share of funding,” explains L.A. County Homeless Authority spokeswoman Naomi Goldman. \"It's also data that helps us work with the community-based organizations and the homeless service providers to figure out where best to allocate the dollars so that'll do the most impact.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year's L.A. County homeless count recorded a 12 percent increase from 2013, or around 41,000 people living on the streets and in shelters across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than half of them were living in the city of Los Angeles alone, with the greatest number concentrated in and around downtown’s Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"W4TkWX7xJXRwXIBiOWoCKIpIUoxFVAGJ\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the raw numbers are just part of the picture. Just as important, says Todd Palmquist, is a survey portion that works a little like a census survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Certain numbers of the homeless are actually interviewed,\" says Palmquist, former director of the San Gabriel Valley Consortium on Homelessness and a volunteer homeless count coordinator and trainer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey helps identify trends, such as more people living in cars, for example, or spikes in the number of kids or military veterans living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It can really give a good idea of populations that are in need of help, and hopefully eventually be able to be used to identify and set up programs to prevent homelessness rather than just help people get out of homelessness,” says Palmquist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year L.A. County shifts to an annual count, a move it hopes results in more consistent data. The count used to be done every other year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848013\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SkidRowCartsGuys-800x521.jpg\" alt=\"Many homeless people come to Skid Row because they could not find services in their own communities. Still, recent counts have shown spikes in homelessness in L.A. neighborhoods farther and farther from downtown. Part of the 2016 count included an effort to link people to services.\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10848013\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SkidRowCartsGuys.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SkidRowCartsGuys-400x261.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SkidRowCartsGuys-768x500.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many homeless people come to Skid Row because they could not find services in their own communities. Still, recent counts have shown spikes in homelessness in L.A. neighborhoods farther and farther from downtown. Part of the 2016 count included an effort to link people to services. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's also deploying more teams to far-flung areas of the county where homeless people are harder to find, and expanding efforts to link people to services on the spot. But counts are still done mostly the old-fashioned way, says Wade Trimmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why can't we do the count on the smartphone or do it on a tablet?” wonders Trimmer. “It’s (still) pencil and paper and I have volunteers who are always surprised, who come back and say: 'This is how we do the count?' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LAHSA’s Naomi Goldman says the count is starting to go high tech, though slowly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're always looking to refine and see what can we improve,\" says Goldman. \"We do have parts of the count that are using iPads and Survey Monkey, which will make some of the counting and some of the process a little more streamlined, a little bit faster.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Results of the 2016 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count should be available by spring.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For three days and nights, several thousand volunteers have fanned out across Los Angeles County trying to get an accurate tally of the county's immense homeless population. The Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count is considered the largest such effort in the nation. The count is now done annually, one of several changes intended to make it more efficient and effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conducting a \u003ca href=\"http://www.theycountwillyou.org/\">homeless count \u003c/a>is not easy. Volunteers traipse into dry river bottoms, push through thick brush at public parks and cruise along dimly lit city streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/244233532&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/244233532'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteer counters are discouraged from having too much interaction with people -- there’s a more comprehensive census-style survey that is done separately from the actual counting -- or from disturbing people holed up in makeshift outdoor shelters or vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10847788\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?attachment_id=10847788\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10847788 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/homless-count-the-2015-homeless-count-demographic-survey-p1-normal.gif\" alt=\"The L.A. County annual homeless count includes a more comprehensive census-style survey portion that's done separately from the actual counting.\" width=\"700\" height=\"906\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The L.A. County annual homeless count includes a more comprehensive census-style survey portion that's done separately from the actual counting. \u003ccite>(Los Angeles County Homeless Authority)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So volunteers, typically led by members of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lahsa.org/\">Los Angeles County Homeless Authority’s \u003c/a>street outreach team, typically rely on their own intuition, instinct and internal extrapolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an imperfect science, to be sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The way the count is conducted, it is often done drive-by, right. You're in a car looking for people, but really the people are not to be found,” says Wade Trimmer, director of the \u003ca href=\"http://sfvrescuemission.org/\">San Fernando Rescue Mission\u003c/a>, about 30 miles northeast of downtown L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trimmer says there’s been a significant spike in the San Fernando Valley’s homeless population. But he doesn’t think it’s accurately reflected in recent L.A. County homeless counts, partly because of how the count is done: mostly at night by relatively inexperienced volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you look at downtown [Los Angeles], it makes a lot of sense to count at night because people are congregated downtown at night,\" says Trimmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn't make as much sense to me to do the count at night in the San Fernando Valley because people are not congregating on the street,\" he says. \"They’re finding a place to sleep, they're in the canyons or behind a building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can be frustrating, says Trimmer, because shelters and other services depend on the data collected during the count. It’s the number cited by local leaders to justify spending more or less of their own resources. It’s how the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development figures how much money to give L.A. County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848007\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"People wait for a meal outside the Midnight Mission on Skid Row. Roughly half of L.A. County’s homeless live in the city of Los Angeles, several thousand in shelters and on the streets of downtown’s Skid Row. \" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10848007\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-800x518.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-400x259.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-768x498.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-1440x933.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-1180x765.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-960x622.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wait for a meal outside the Midnight Mission on Skid Row. Roughly half of L.A. County’s homeless live in the city of Los Angeles, several thousand in shelters and on the streets of downtown’s Skid Row. \u003ccite>(ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It helps us advocate for our fair share of funding,” explains L.A. County Homeless Authority spokeswoman Naomi Goldman. \"It's also data that helps us work with the community-based organizations and the homeless service providers to figure out where best to allocate the dollars so that'll do the most impact.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year's L.A. County homeless count recorded a 12 percent increase from 2013, or around 41,000 people living on the streets and in shelters across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than half of them were living in the city of Los Angeles alone, with the greatest number concentrated in and around downtown’s Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the raw numbers are just part of the picture. Just as important, says Todd Palmquist, is a survey portion that works a little like a census survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Certain numbers of the homeless are actually interviewed,\" says Palmquist, former director of the San Gabriel Valley Consortium on Homelessness and a volunteer homeless count coordinator and trainer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey helps identify trends, such as more people living in cars, for example, or spikes in the number of kids or military veterans living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It can really give a good idea of populations that are in need of help, and hopefully eventually be able to be used to identify and set up programs to prevent homelessness rather than just help people get out of homelessness,” says Palmquist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year L.A. County shifts to an annual count, a move it hopes results in more consistent data. The count used to be done every other year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848013\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SkidRowCartsGuys-800x521.jpg\" alt=\"Many homeless people come to Skid Row because they could not find services in their own communities. Still, recent counts have shown spikes in homelessness in L.A. neighborhoods farther and farther from downtown. Part of the 2016 count included an effort to link people to services.\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10848013\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SkidRowCartsGuys.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SkidRowCartsGuys-400x261.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SkidRowCartsGuys-768x500.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many homeless people come to Skid Row because they could not find services in their own communities. Still, recent counts have shown spikes in homelessness in L.A. neighborhoods farther and farther from downtown. Part of the 2016 count included an effort to link people to services. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's also deploying more teams to far-flung areas of the county where homeless people are harder to find, and expanding efforts to link people to services on the spot. 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One photo showed a child opening a Christmas present containing a Rams jersey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breakups between a pro sports franchise and a host city are rarely amicable. For many in L.A., there were hard feelings when the Rams left after the 1994 season. And in that city today, the mood for many enduring Rams fans is one of jubilation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A posting about the move on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/latimes\">the Los Angeles Times Facebook page\u003c/a> has drawn enthusiastic responses, with some fans welcoming the return of rivalries such as the 49ers-Rams. 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Local TV \u003ca href=\"http://fox2now.com/2016/01/13/silence-of-the-rams-nfl-approves-vote-to-move-to-los-angeles/\">2 Now reports\u003c/a> that \"fans, or former fans, are purposely driving past the park to throw out unwanted jerseys and team gear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10831757\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10831757\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/StanK-1440x1652.jpg\" alt=\"St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke.\" width=\"640\" height=\"734\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/StanK-1440x1652.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/StanK-400x459.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/StanK-800x918.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/StanK-768x881.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/StanK.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/StanK-1180x1353.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/StanK-960x1101.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke. \u003ccite>(GLYN KIRK/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Saying that the NFL had ignored the truth about his city as well as fans \"who supported the team through far more downs than ups,\" St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay says, \"St. Louis is great place to live and build a business — with or without NFL football.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collecting other reactions Wednesday, the \u003ca href=\"http://sports.live.stltoday.com/Article/1694945-Rams-fans-react-to-teams-departure\">St. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c/a> included several tweets from fans who cited kids' disappointment. 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"content": "\u003cp>On a sun-baked residential street in South Central L.A., you hear the constant ebb and flow of jets cruising in line toward Los Angeles International Airport. Unless you’re in Franklin Bell’s garage, where you hear the blues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/227720239\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last decade, 81-year-old Bell has hosted the Blues Workshop every Sunday, regular as church, in a one-car garage rebuilt to hold about 50 people. The place gets crowded, folks dressed to the nines. For a small, voluntary donation, they dance, eat and drink to music that ranges from raw to graceful. There’s a stage in the back, and anyone’s welcome to sit in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We play R&B, we play a lot of pop music, but basically we go with the blues,” explains Bell. “That’s what people look for when they come to the Workshop. They love to come to try to participate, play the blues and listen to it. And I just love that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10713895\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MississippiBo-800x561.jpg\" alt=\"Guitarist and singer Mississippi Bo kicks back between sets.\" width=\"800\" height=\"561\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10713895\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MississippiBo-800x561.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MississippiBo-400x280.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MississippiBo-1440x1010.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MississippiBo.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MississippiBo-1180x827.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MississippiBo-960x673.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guitarist and singer Mississippi Bo kicks back between sets.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bell came to L.A. from his hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1968. He ran a Chevron gas station that fell to the construction of the 105 Freeway. A musician since high school, he picked up his drums and hit the road. The years passed. His eyesight was failing, “and I was getting tired of the travel, hotel, motel, and carrying them drums,” says Bell. He hit on the idea of setting up shop in the garage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the players onstage dig in, finding and changing grooves, trading fours and eights, Bell works the crowd. He’s dapper, sporting a crisp, dark suit and tie despite the heat. He wears a white cap tilted back on his head. He carries a Styrofoam cup in his hand, sipping from it every now and again. He looks you in the eye when he speaks, despite being legally blind. It’s just part of getting older, and there’s a lot of that in the garage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The average age, you’re talking about 65. Average!” exclaims Bell. “So that means, we got people 75, 85, even 90 in the audience every Sunday. But young? Once in a while, maybe someone in their 50s, maybe under 50. Very few.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lester Lands is a guitarist and vocalist from Baton Rouge who cut his teeth on the southern gospel circuit. Lands looks about half of his 62 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you stop and think about it, the blues is for people that age, 60 and over,” Lands says. “A lot of them live the blues, coming out of the South and stuff, man. And still today, that’s their soundtrack, the blues. So that’s why it’s so nice and so popular around here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10713900\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/CuttingaRug-800x671.jpg\" alt=\"The dance floor kicks in on another Sunday in the garage.\" width=\"800\" height=\"671\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10713900\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/CuttingaRug-800x671.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/CuttingaRug-400x336.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/CuttingaRug-1440x1208.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/CuttingaRug.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/CuttingaRug-1180x990.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/CuttingaRug-960x806.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The dance floor kicks in on another Sunday in the garage. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Workshop audience regular Betty Madison is a beautiful woman with a Lena Horne smile, another Bayou State transplant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>I’m originally from Louisiana but I’ve been here since 1942,” she says. “I’m 84.” Eighty-four? Watching her work the dance floor, this is astonishing news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m here every Sunday,” Madison says. “I go to church and come home, get me a nap and then get dressed and come over and listen to the blues. 'Cause I enjoy the people, and the people be enjoying themselves. That’s what I like, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madison and most of the folks here fall into what’s known as the Second Great Migration of African-Americans, people who moved from states like Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana to cities in the North and West, a period that lasted from the early 1940s until about 1970. They came searching for jobs in California, and many found them in the burgeoning defense industry, as did harp player and singer Sammy Lee, who left Shreveport, Louisiana for the City of Angels in 1965.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[I] graduated from high school,” Lee says. “Started working at a car wash. Few years later I got drafted, went in the Army. Came out the Army. Went to work for Northrop Aircraft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I met Bell in the early ‘80s when he was playing in a band. Then he got this place going. I think it’s fantastic. It’s a great place for the neighborhood. Keeps the blues alive, right here in South Central.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10712143\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16974_bells-players-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10712143\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16974_bells-players-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Left to right: Roland Atkins, Lil' John Dantzler, B.J., and Sammy Lee.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1095\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16974_bells-players-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16974_bells-players-qut-400x228.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16974_bells-players-qut-800x456.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16974_bells-players-qut-1440x821.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16974_bells-players-qut-1180x673.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16974_bells-players-qut-960x548.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left to right: Roland Atkins, Lil' John Dantzler, B.J., and Sammy Lee. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The relocated Southerners brought more than just regional music. “Blues and food,” Bell gushes. “We got something to eat! Got to have some food to go along with the blues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supper is the handiwork of a number of Bell supporters who lend their culinary skills. Bell’s cousin Alice Cabile is among them. And what’s on the menu?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Spaghetti and beans, a variety of salads, cake and pie,” Cabile says. “We have one lady that makes the bomb banana pudding. Chicken, pig feet, meatloaf, fish, hushpuppies, coleslaw. It’s always great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The buffet table is a mighty ritual at the Workshop, and Lester Lands is called upon to offer grace from the bandstand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>Right now they telling me that some food is about to be served,\" Lands says. \"We don’t wanna offend nobody but we give thanks to the Lord and savior Jesus Christ here. Now, let’s bow our heads … Father God in the name of Jesus we come to you right now thanking you for another beautiful day. We thank you for the Workshop, Lord.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10711871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16961_no-drinks-sign-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10711871\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16961_no-drinks-sign-qut.jpg\" alt=\"There are rules at the Workshop.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1363\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16961_no-drinks-sign-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16961_no-drinks-sign-qut-400x284.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16961_no-drinks-sign-qut-800x568.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16961_no-drinks-sign-qut-1440x1022.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16961_no-drinks-sign-qut-1180x838.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16961_no-drinks-sign-qut-960x682.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are rules at the Workshop. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post blessing, Lands explains that everyone is welcome in the garage. “Here, it’s not no mess, no racial barriers, none of that. It’s just good clean fun, man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet you don’t see many young people showing up for the good clean fun. Twenty-nine-year-old Donae Alexander is an exception. She says her generation just doesn’t get the blues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that they need to just wake up cause that’s what time it is,” Alexander says. “If you don’t know basically where we came from, far as in your roots and a certain type of music that you listen to, and what they have going on today, hip-hop is not the same, to be honest. It’s not. Not without the old school. You have to go way back to come to present, that’s how I look at it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10713902\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Guitarist-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"Guitarist and singer Tony Ibarra, a regular at the Blues Workshop. \" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10713902\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Guitarist-800x543.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Guitarist-400x271.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Guitarist-1440x977.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Guitarist.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Guitarist-1180x800.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Guitarist-960x651.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guitarist and singer Tony Ibarra, a regular at the Blues Workshop.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Guitarist and singer Tony Ibarra is one Workshop fixture who didn’t come from the American South. The Guadalajara native played in primal Mexican rock combo Los Fugitivos, and came to Southern California in 1963. He’s been slinging the blues for decades and has seen his share of rough joints. In fact, he spent his Summer of Love playing onstage in Tijuana. But this scene, he says, is a far cry from that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here and there is somebody screaming, which is normal, you know, but nothing to scare you away,” says Ibarra with a chuckle. “Everybody’s cool. It’s very unique. It’s like the real thing to me, you know? Everybody’s friendly, no fights. We eat, have a few beers, listen to good players, listen to good music, talk to the people. To me it’s great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what Franklin Bell wanted all along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It don’t take no big crowd,” says Bell. “It take a few peoples that you can get together and if they can get some joy and they can spread that as they go through life it makes a difference. 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Lands looks about half of his 62 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you stop and think about it, the blues is for people that age, 60 and over,” Lands says. “A lot of them live the blues, coming out of the South and stuff, man. And still today, that’s their soundtrack, the blues. So that’s why it’s so nice and so popular around here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10713900\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/CuttingaRug-800x671.jpg\" alt=\"The dance floor kicks in on another Sunday in the garage.\" width=\"800\" height=\"671\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10713900\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/CuttingaRug-800x671.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/CuttingaRug-400x336.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/CuttingaRug-1440x1208.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/CuttingaRug.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/CuttingaRug-1180x990.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/CuttingaRug-960x806.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The dance floor kicks in on another Sunday in the garage. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Workshop audience regular Betty Madison is a beautiful woman with a Lena Horne smile, another Bayou State transplant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>I’m originally from Louisiana but I’ve been here since 1942,” she says. “I’m 84.” Eighty-four? Watching her work the dance floor, this is astonishing news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m here every Sunday,” Madison says. “I go to church and come home, get me a nap and then get dressed and come over and listen to the blues. 'Cause I enjoy the people, and the people be enjoying themselves. That’s what I like, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madison and most of the folks here fall into what’s known as the Second Great Migration of African-Americans, people who moved from states like Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana to cities in the North and West, a period that lasted from the early 1940s until about 1970. They came searching for jobs in California, and many found them in the burgeoning defense industry, as did harp player and singer Sammy Lee, who left Shreveport, Louisiana for the City of Angels in 1965.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[I] graduated from high school,” Lee says. “Started working at a car wash. Few years later I got drafted, went in the Army. Came out the Army. Went to work for Northrop Aircraft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I met Bell in the early ‘80s when he was playing in a band. Then he got this place going. I think it’s fantastic. It’s a great place for the neighborhood. Keeps the blues alive, right here in South Central.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10712143\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16974_bells-players-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10712143\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16974_bells-players-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Left to right: Roland Atkins, Lil' John Dantzler, B.J., and Sammy Lee.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1095\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16974_bells-players-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16974_bells-players-qut-400x228.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16974_bells-players-qut-800x456.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16974_bells-players-qut-1440x821.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16974_bells-players-qut-1180x673.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16974_bells-players-qut-960x548.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left to right: Roland Atkins, Lil' John Dantzler, B.J., and Sammy Lee. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The relocated Southerners brought more than just regional music. “Blues and food,” Bell gushes. “We got something to eat! Got to have some food to go along with the blues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supper is the handiwork of a number of Bell supporters who lend their culinary skills. Bell’s cousin Alice Cabile is among them. And what’s on the menu?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Spaghetti and beans, a variety of salads, cake and pie,” Cabile says. “We have one lady that makes the bomb banana pudding. Chicken, pig feet, meatloaf, fish, hushpuppies, coleslaw. It’s always great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The buffet table is a mighty ritual at the Workshop, and Lester Lands is called upon to offer grace from the bandstand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>Right now they telling me that some food is about to be served,\" Lands says. \"We don’t wanna offend nobody but we give thanks to the Lord and savior Jesus Christ here. Now, let’s bow our heads … Father God in the name of Jesus we come to you right now thanking you for another beautiful day. We thank you for the Workshop, Lord.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10711871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16961_no-drinks-sign-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10711871\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16961_no-drinks-sign-qut.jpg\" alt=\"There are rules at the Workshop.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1363\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16961_no-drinks-sign-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16961_no-drinks-sign-qut-400x284.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16961_no-drinks-sign-qut-800x568.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16961_no-drinks-sign-qut-1440x1022.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16961_no-drinks-sign-qut-1180x838.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16961_no-drinks-sign-qut-960x682.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are rules at the Workshop. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post blessing, Lands explains that everyone is welcome in the garage. “Here, it’s not no mess, no racial barriers, none of that. It’s just good clean fun, man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet you don’t see many young people showing up for the good clean fun. Twenty-nine-year-old Donae Alexander is an exception. She says her generation just doesn’t get the blues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that they need to just wake up cause that’s what time it is,” Alexander says. “If you don’t know basically where we came from, far as in your roots and a certain type of music that you listen to, and what they have going on today, hip-hop is not the same, to be honest. It’s not. Not without the old school. You have to go way back to come to present, that’s how I look at it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10713902\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Guitarist-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"Guitarist and singer Tony Ibarra, a regular at the Blues Workshop. \" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10713902\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Guitarist-800x543.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Guitarist-400x271.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Guitarist-1440x977.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Guitarist.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Guitarist-1180x800.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Guitarist-960x651.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guitarist and singer Tony Ibarra, a regular at the Blues Workshop.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Guitarist and singer Tony Ibarra is one Workshop fixture who didn’t come from the American South. The Guadalajara native played in primal Mexican rock combo Los Fugitivos, and came to Southern California in 1963. He’s been slinging the blues for decades and has seen his share of rough joints. In fact, he spent his Summer of Love playing onstage in Tijuana. But this scene, he says, is a far cry from that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here and there is somebody screaming, which is normal, you know, but nothing to scare you away,” says Ibarra with a chuckle. “Everybody’s cool. It’s very unique. It’s like the real thing to me, you know? Everybody’s friendly, no fights. We eat, have a few beers, listen to good players, listen to good music, talk to the people. To me it’s great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what Franklin Bell wanted all along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It don’t take no big crowd,” says Bell. “It take a few peoples that you can get together and if they can get some joy and they can spread that as they go through life it makes a difference. That’s what my thing is about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as the jets continue overhead, flying toward the future, in the garage, the blues will continue to extend the past, thanks to Franklin Bell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1 p.m.:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe ranking Democrat on the House Select Committee on Intelligence says the threat that shut down the Los Angeles school system is believed to be a hoax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said a preliminary investigation indicates that the threats in Los Angeles and New York City were designed to disrupt school districts in large cities. He says investigators are still gathering information about the origin of the threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:30 a.m.:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nLos Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck says the emailed threat that shut down the nation's second-largest school district described an attack with assault rifles. Beck said it was specific to all the campuses in the Los Angeles Unified School District. He says the email's \"implied threat\" involved explosive devices and the \"specific threat\" was a shooting attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beck says the email was routed through Germany but that police believe its origin was much closer. Beck also says the city takes threats against its schools seriously, given the recent attack in San Bernardino and the frequency of school shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the LAPD gave advice to district officials, who then chose to close all of its more than 900 schools and 187 public charter schools. Beck defended that decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10795571\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10795571\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LAPDChiefBeck.jpg\" alt=\"Los Angeles police chief Charlie Beck addresses the media at Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters on Dec. 15, 2015.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2858\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LAPDChiefBeck.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LAPDChiefBeck-400x595.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LAPDChiefBeck-800x1191.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LAPDChiefBeck-768x1143.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LAPDChiefBeck-1440x2144.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LAPDChiefBeck-1180x1756.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/LAPDChiefBeck-960x1429.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles police chief Charlie Beck addresses the media at Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters on Dec. 15, 2015. \u003ccite>(FREDERIC J. 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New York City officials concluded the threat was a hoax and declined to close schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York police commissioner and former LAPD chief William Bratton said he thought Los Angeles officials overreacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:45 a.m.:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe White House says the different reactions taken by the nation's two largest public school systems after receiving threats show that local first responders are responsible for protecting their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokesman Josh Earnest says he won't \"second-guess\" the decisions by Los Angeles officials to close their schools and New York City officials to keep their students in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earnest says local authorities make decisions based on information they receive and what they believe is in the best interests of their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles law enforcement and city leaders defended the decision to shut down the city's school system due to an emailed threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Charlie Beck and Mayor Eric Garcetti told reporters that they stand behind the superintendent's order to close the Los Angeles Unified School District's more than 900 schools and 187 public charter schools as a precaution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe nation's second-largest school district shut down all of its campuses Tuesday after an emailed threat targeted students at many Los Angeles-area schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting in nearby San Bernardino that left 14 people dead this month influenced the decision to close all the schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District, which 640,000 students attend, Superintendent Ramon Cortines said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York City officials say they received the same threat, but quickly concluded that it was a hoax. New York Police Commissioner William Bratton said he thought Los Angeles officials overreacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bratton said the person who wrote the note claimed to be a jihadist, but made errors that made it clear the person was a prankster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A law enforcement official says the threat was emailed to a school board member late Monday and appeared to come from overseas. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in Los Angeles would not elaborate on the threat, saying it was still being evaluated, but said the shutdown came as a precaution. Schools would remain closed until the threat was cleared, which could happen by the end of the day, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles schools commonly get threats, but Cortines called this one rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was not to one school, two schools or three schools,\" he said at a news conference. \"It was many schools, not specifically identified. But there were many schools. That's the reason I took the action that I did. ... It was to students at schools.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortines said he wants every campus to be searched and a report given to him and the school board that they are safe. 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"content": "\u003cp>Los Angeles is a region better known for Hollywood, but it actually has more manufacturing jobs than any other metro area in the U.S. Of the more than half-million manufacturing jobs in the region, about 50,000 of them are in the garment industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fashion is a big part of L.A.'s identity, and you feel it in the Fashion District downtown. It has changed a lot since the late 1980s, when plain beige towers called California Mart bustled with all things related to the garment industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Weitman grew up around the garment industry and remembers Cal Mart's heyday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was first-generation migrant workers working their butts off all day long on a sewing machine or cutting tables, and these buildings were just humming. And there were racks rolling in and out all day long. These freight elevators, you'd have to wait to just load your garments in them to get them into a truck to get them to ship out to a store,\" Weitman says. \"But everyone wanted to be around here because this was the hub. This was the only showroom center in L.A.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"QNVLCx8OoEhArjc0PqcTlvJDK1xEZ2bm\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, he says, workers could spend all their time here. \"It was amazing energy, and also, inside of this building, you could almost like live in there and never leave except for sleep,\" he says. \"They had a barbershop, dry cleaner, 15 different restaurants you could eat in, a dentist.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weitman owns a company that makes the things that go on the inside of a garment — waistbands, pocket lining, shirt collar lining, dress linings. When you reach into your jeans for your keys and rub your hand against the lining of the pocket — there's a chance Weitman's company made that material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But times have changed in the fashion industry here in L.A. Weitman, a board member of the California Fashion Association, says the Cal Mart building \"is probably at 50 percent occupancy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10778136\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10778136\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-800x966.jpg\" alt='(Top) A worker at Blue Creations prepares a pair of blue jeans for a crinkle effect known as \"3-D whiskers.\" (Bottom) Employees at Blue Creations apply the destruction/distressing process to jeans by sanding, ripping and tearing them on molds.' width=\"800\" height=\"966\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-800x966.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-400x483.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-1440x1739.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-1920x2319.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-1180x1425.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/johnfpeters_npr_denim-edit_custom-f4984484cff78b466b70ba0b42347528c8985fed-960x1159.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Top) A worker at Blue Creations prepares a pair of blue jeans for a crinkle effect known as \"3-D whiskers.\" (Bottom) Employees at Blue Creations apply the destruction/distressing process to jeans by sanding, ripping and tearing them on molds. \u003ccite>(John Francis Peters/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fashion industry here has been bleeding jobs for years. A lot of low-end work has moved overseas. Decades ago, you could work here and raise a family — getting paid per garment — even though it was difficult work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the 1980s, when business was booming, Esperanza Monterrosa came to L.A. from El Salvador. She raised four kids on income she earned sewing pieces at home. She \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/10/30/360019707/la-manufacturing-industry-still-supported-by-garment-workers\">told NPR last year\u003c/a> that her manager would drop off the material to sew, along with diapers for her kids, so that she wouldn't have to leave the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the mid-'90s, the garment industry was changing, and some big factories closed and sent work overseas. Economists say that when factories go overseas, it forces down wages for unskilled work. While the garment industry has helped keep L.A. as a manufacturing city for longer than other American cities, economists agree this industry is not the way of the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One bright spot here has been high-end denim. A lot of $30 jeans are made in Mexico or China, but designer jeans almost always come from L.A. That's because hot trends come and go — and designers can't really send stuff abroad and wait for it to come back. They're still using the talent and expertise here in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They're doing it at places like Blue Creations, a wash house that puts finishing touches on designer jeans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10778213\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10778213\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-800x604.jpg\" alt=\"Raul Quintero (L) and his son Oscar, owners of Blue Creations, at their factory.\" width=\"800\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-800x604.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-400x302.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-1440x1088.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-1180x891.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/DenimGuys-960x725.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raul Quintero (L) and his son Oscar, owners of Blue Creations, at their factory. \u003ccite>(John Francis Peters/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These are serious finishing touches. Designers send their instructions, and employees here cut those perfect designer rips, and they iron and sand. They load jeans into ozone machines to distress them, or they stuff them into massive dryers with a bunch of golf balls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Throw the golf balls in with the jeans, and it tumbles. It softens it up,\" says Oscar Quintero, whose family runs the wash house. With all those cheaper jeans being made overseas, Quintero deals with some fancy designer stuff. Jeans that cost $200 or $300 come through a wash house with really humble roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quintero's dad, Raul, brought the family to the U.S. from Mexico in the '80s. He worked in this wash house and then bought it in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the beginning, when I take over the company, I [was] doing everything — sales, driving, answer the phone, everything,\" he says. \"I [didn't] have money to bring somebody to help me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raul Quintero mortgaged the house to buy the company. 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A lot of low-end work has moved overseas. Decades ago, you could work here and raise a family — getting paid per garment — even though it was difficult work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the 1980s, when business was booming, Esperanza Monterrosa came to L.A. from El Salvador. She raised four kids on income she earned sewing pieces at home. She \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/10/30/360019707/la-manufacturing-industry-still-supported-by-garment-workers\">told NPR last year\u003c/a> that her manager would drop off the material to sew, along with diapers for her kids, so that she wouldn't have to leave the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the mid-'90s, the garment industry was changing, and some big factories closed and sent work overseas. Economists say that when factories go overseas, it forces down wages for unskilled work. 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