Latest news with #LongBeach
Forbes
14 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Ozzy Osbourne Dead At 76
LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 10: Musician Ozzy Osbourne signs copies of his album "Patient ... More Number 9" at Fingerprints Music on September 10, 2022 in Long Beach, California. (Photo by) The godfather of heavy metal music otherwise known as 'the Prince of Darkness,' Ozzy Osbourne, has died at age 76. The news comes from a statement released by his family: 'It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning. He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time.' Only a few weeks ago Ozzy Osbourne had reunited with the original Black Sabbath lineup at Back to the Beginning to perform his final show. Back to the Beginning was a resounding success that showcased a slew of metal icons paying their respect to Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne. Furthermore, the event went on to become the highest grossing charity concert of all time. As the founding vocalist of the pioneering metal band Black Sabbath, Osbourne would go on to establish himself as one of the most iconic vocalists in rock and heavy metal music. After parting ways with the band in the late 70s, Osbourne saw a second wind with his solo career which would go on to produce several platinum albums and singles. To date, there isn't another vocalist in the heavy metal genre that has seen the same multifaceted success as Ozzy Osbourne. Leading up to Osbourne's final performance at Back to the Beginning, Osbourne and his family had made it clear his health was slowly deteriorating; Osbourne was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2019. Given all he had been going through, Osbourne performed incredibly well at his final performance, and he and the rest of Black Sabbath clearly put in the time and effort to make sure that his final bow came with one of his most memorable shows. It's hard to articulate the sheer impact Ozzy Osbourne had in hard rock and heavy metal music. There isn't another rock icon that popularized the heavy music genre in the mainstream quite like Ozzy Osbourne did, nor was there ever a musician that the metal community unanimously rallied behind from the start of their career to their final hour.
Washington Post
3 days ago
- Washington Post
The online activists trying to stop ICE from making arrests
Two decades ago, Sherman Austin decided the life of an internet activist was no longer worth the trouble. He'd landed in federal prison at 20 years old after investigators found instructions on how to make a bomb on a website he hosted. After a year behind bars, Austin retired his self-taught coding skills. He found work as a low-voltage electrician in Long Beach, trained in mixed martial arts and started a family.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Raul Lara returns to Long Beach Poly as football coach of Mater Dei
'Welcome home.' A Long Beach Poly assistant football coach offered a warm greeting to Mater Dei football coach Raul Lara on Saturday morning before the start of a summer passing tournament at Poly. Lara, a Poly graduate who won five Southern Section championships in 13 seasons as the Jackrabbits' head coach, was struck by some of the changes he saw, such as an all-weather sports field and bungalows on the old baseball field. The school has begun a $450-million construction project. 'I haven't been here in a while,' Lara said. 'They're doing a lot of reconstruction. It's pretty neat. It will be interesting when it's completed. We didn't have this. We had a dirt track, regular grass field. We used to have a pole by those two trash cans and we had a coach, Don Norford, that every time he yelled, 'Hit the pole,' everybody knew they were in trouble.' Lara won a Southern Section Division 1 title and state championship last season in his first year at Mater Dei, and his team is a heavy favorite to repeat thanks to strong offensive and defensive lines as well as a receiving group that includes receiver Chris Henry Jr., who has commited to Ohio State, and tight end Mark Bowman, who has committed to USC. "That group is special," he said of his receiver group that includes Ohio State commit Kayden Dixon-Wyatt, Georgia commit Gavin Honore and senior Koen Parnell. Still to be decided is who starts at quarterback, with Wisconsin commit Ryan Hopkins competing with Minnesota commit Furian Inferrera. Asked if he could end up playing both, Lara said it was possible. Asked if he was still having fun, Lara said, "It's a different kind of fun. It's more of a CEO fun. I have an awesome staff. All I do is make sure it's functioning. They do a fantastic job." Saturday's competition featured a rarity in that three outstanding tight ends were in the spotlight — Bowman, a USC commit; Andre Nickerson of Inglewood, an SMU commit; Jaden Hernandez of Poly, a Colorado State commit. Defensive backs were pushing and shoving and the tight ends were having none of that. Mayfair has two college-bound defensive backs in Chaz Gilbreath (UC Davis) and Miles Mitchell (Air Force). Mitchell has a 4.5 grade-point average. Poly's Donte Wright is a junior cornerback committed to Georgia with a big upside because he's 6 feet 2 and still growing with track speed. Teams are winding down their summer seven-on-seven passing tournament schedules. Coaches are starting to pass out shoulder pads because official practice begins July 28. Sign up for the L.A. Times SoCal high school sports newsletter to get scores, stories and a behind-the-scenes look at what makes prep sports so popular. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
CBS News
4 days ago
- Climate
- CBS News
8 swimmers rescued after lifeguards leave for day in Long Beach, New York
It was all hands on deck at a New York beach when eight swimmers needed to be rescued after lifeguards left their posts for the day. While Friday's warm weather brough families out to Long Beach to catch some rays and take a dip in the water off Long Island, it was a different story earlier in the week when riptides and poor water conditions kept crews busy. About 15 minutes after their last rescue Thursday at Monroe Beach, lifeguards who were scheduled to train after hours decided to stay there to practice. Then, they spotted two victims on the Long Beach Road jetty getting sucked out by riptides. One woman was easily pulled back in, but the water was so strong it took two tries to get her boyfriend to safety. "He was out of it. He was done. He was done and taking his last breath when my rescue swimmers got off the jet ski and grabbed him up. I mean 100%, I'm confident that he would have been gone had we not been there," Jake Jacobi, a former fire chief and water rescue coordinator, said. More victims were spotted while that man was being taken to safety. "I notified them to take them to the east side of the beach roads, a little calmer, and luckily on the way in, they saw three other victims on the Monroe jetty that were clinging to the jetty and out at the end of the jetty," Jacobi said. In total, fire officials said eight people had to be saved within two hours of lifeguards leaving their posts for the day, thanks to the emergency response crew that remains close by until 8 p.m. "Police actually went in the water as well and they were able to bring the victim in," Chief Rich Borawski, with the Long Beach Lifeguard Patrol, said. The hectic situation was caused by a mixture of riptides, a sandbar and poor water conditions. "We had both jet skis operating within the reach of each other and all of our membership right in the same area, which is a little hectic at times because you have a lot of different things happening and you're trying to keep up," Chief John Marino, of the Long Beach Fire Department, said. The fire chief said every victim pulled from the water was stable and expected to be OK. He said a large number of rescues after lifeguard hours is not unheard of, but it does not happen often.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jakob Nowell Was Born For This
He sounds just like his father, man. It's eerie. It's natural that Jakob Nowell might not want to be told this. If that's the case, he handles it gracefully, humbly accepting the compliment, but not dwelling on it. To dwell on it one way or another—agreeing or downplaying—might seem like a lose-lose to him. Either he comes off as cocky or falsely modest. That, and there's the fact that it's normal for anyone to get a little sick of people telling them they look/sound/act so much like their parents. More from Spin: 'Eddington': Ari Aster's Miserabilism Gets in the Way of a Promising Social Satire 5 Albums I Can't Live Without: Dan Sugarman of Ice Nine Kills Deep Cut Friday: 'Rocket Queen' by Guns N' Roses And Jakob Nowell isn't trying to be like his father. That comes with a mountain of expectations, some positive, some negative, that he is, honestly, quite nervous about living up to. Which is interesting because, you know, he sounds just like him. Sublime is one of those bands that, for a while, seemed more mythological than human—a logo on a T-shirt or sticker—more than an actual band. That's because, for a long time, it wasn't an active band. Bradley Nowell, the almost legendary face and voice of one of Long Beach's greatest ever exports—which says a lot in a town with a port that big—passed away in 1996, two months before the band's self-titled, third studio album's release and songs like 'Santeria,' 'What I Got,' and 'Wrong Way' put them on the map when he wasn't around to see it. Jakob was 11 months old. After that, Sublime was prevalent on airwaves and at chill functions, but aside from a few one-offs, collaborations with surviving members and friends, and rarities releases, it wasn't until 2009 when the band really became anything resembling what it once was, enlisting singer/guitarist Rome Ramirez as Sublime with Rome. It was pretty close. It was probably as close as a lot of fans thought they could get without the aid of what then would have probably been a hologram, or today through the use of AI. Yuck. That is, until Jakob Nowell came into the fold. It started again just as a one-off, a fundraiser for HR of Bad Brains. But Jakob, along with the original rhythm section of Bud Gaugh and Eric Wilson (whom he refers to as his 'uncles'), thought it was fun enough to keep thinking about. Then things got bigger, quick, with an opportunity to play at Coachella in 2024. And it was there in the desert that Nowell was handed his father's guitar to play—the same guitar he was pictured next to as an infant, his father the same age that Jakob is now. It could've been another one-off, but it worked just too well to not pursue further, leading up to the three getting back into the studio together and writing music as Sublime, with a new album on the way later this year. It's all just too perfect, at least from the outsider point of view. Jakob sounds just like Bradley, he has the right name, he has the right look, he knows where the band came from. What about it wouldn't be perfect? To look deeper, though, is to remember that Jakob is a young adult who lost a parent at a young age. There's a lifetime of experiences and relationships to this music that his father left behind when he passed away, and it isn't as simple as throwing the guitar on and ripping into '40 oz. to Freedom' like it's karaoke. Just because the music is upbeat doesn't mean there aren't scars attached. 'It's very complicated emotions that you feel when doing stuff like this,' he says. He's shirtless, as he seems to be in every video that exists of him playing with Sublime. He's in the studio in San Pedro, California, putting the finishing touches on the upcoming Sublime release, adding voicemails to add some bona fide Long Beach flavor to the record, just like his dad and 'uncles' had back in the day. He's restless, moving around the room, sometimes getting sidetracked mid-sentence to joke around with his friends, chastising them for using the bathroom without lighting palo santo, or complimenting them on an instrumental melody they're working on. He's having a lot of fun right now, as in today. Maybe it's because the album is just about done and the pressure is waning. And he's certainly having fun on stage. But he is not carefree about this whole thing, or resting on his last name as some birthright to take the job. It's the opposite, really. He's careful to never call it 'my band.' There's connection and love for it, but you can tell he's treading very carefully to not act like he's owed anything, or that his situation is more tragic than any others. 'When I first started playing with my dad's band, oh, dude, I felt this constant feeling of stress and anxiety, to the point where I couldn't even enjoy playing these big shows,' he says. 'There's imposter syndrome, one, and then there's the 'I don't deserve this,' two, and then there's the 'Someone else would be better at this,' or 'Is this even what my dad would have wanted?'' If there's one human being on earth that deserves this position, that the fans would want in this position, it's Jakob Nowell, isn't it? I say this to him. He agrees for a second, reluctantly, but then tosses out that, technically, Rome was the first pick. Long story short: Sublime with Rome lasted seemingly as long as it took for Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh to make things work with the younger Nowell. That Wilson-Gaugh-Nowell trio came together at the end of 2023 for the HR benefit. Jakob stepped in with the legendary guitar at Coachella, and Ramirez announced that he'd depart Sublime with Rome at the end of 2024, and Jakob would be stepping in full-time with new music on the way. What Sublime with Rome lacked was the same thing any band trying to recreate a loss lacks: the soul of the missing piece. This is not a slam on Rome, nor is it his fault. His greatest sin was that he just wasn't Bradley. Jakob Nowell isn't either, nor fully aspires to be. Because gaining perspective on your parents as people is a complicated thing. To do it in front of a crowd is brutal. A lot of growing up is embracing the fact that your parents are human beings with their own internal lives. They had lived lives before you, and they often made mistakes. As you get older, you can see it with greater perspective and understand them as people. But, for Jakob, a lot of that came with the world thinking they knew his dad. 'When I was a kid, the way I felt about who I am and who I'm related to and the whole cosmic journey of life has changed,' he says. 'It's always going to change. But, it's almost missing the point. I think the point is that everybody has complicated emotions about family, coming of age, coming into your own, and being fulfilled and productive. So it's taken me the entirety of my life up until now to get to a place where I'm finally starting to feel positive feelings about it all. 'You can't just sit there and think all day about how bummed you are that you're not the thing you want to be, or that you have to live up to another thing. It's just never going to get anywhere.' 'They talk about, 'You can't think your way into better actions, but you can act your way into better thinking'', quoting AA. He has been sober since 2017. Last name be damned, this was another job that he was simply auditioning for. This involved diving deep through the Sublime catalog in a way he perhaps might never have done before, listening not just for the voice and the emotions of his father, but how he sang it. He just wanted to do a good job. 'If you're asked to join a new project like that, this is what you're supposed to do as a professional,' he says. 'You've got to understand what the band's going for, and how you can either add to it and make sure that your style is not subtracting. … I think naturally my chords are similar to my dad's, but my approach to singing is different from his.' He paid attention to things like vowel sounds and the occasional fluttery vibrato his dad would put on a word, evident on the new single, 'Ensenada.' Pay attention to when he sings 'on my mind' and draws out that last word. The way he softly sets down words like 'no more.' It sounds familiar, huh? Like he said, his genetics gifted him similar vocal chords, but he had to consciously make them sing like a Sublime song, rather than something he would sing for his own bands like Jakob's Castle. He opens up a little more about his connection to Bradley his father, not Bradley the rockstar. 'It's when you go deep, you know, you see a lot of who a person is like,' he says. 'I feel like our soul is spelled out in all of our artistic works, no matter what they are. So, you know, a lot of people's parents die and don't leave them shit. All they have is like a baseball cap to remember them by or whatever. So diving deep through the catalog helped me connect with my father and helped improve me as a musician or performer.' There's new Sublime music on the way. And it sounds like Sublime music. It's clear Gaugh and Wilson click with their old pal's scion. It feels right, right from the jump. It continues where they left off, the entire life that took place between the release of that self-titled album and now just adds even more richness to it. Connection is really at the heart of this. More than figuring out the way the songs sounded, Jakob tapped into the soul of Sublime beyond the music. They were as much a Long Beach community institution as they were a band, putting the city on the map. Sublime made a record label, Skunk Records, to put out their own music and boost their friends, and now Jakob's doing the same with his own label, Svnbvrnt. Sublime captured life for a bunch of young knuckleheads in their neck of the woods and Nowell has his own crew of musicians and friends to keep that spirit alive now. That's what Jakob wants to tap into more than anything. 'Once it took me long enough playing these shows and trying to build up Svnbvrnt Records to try to exalt the careers of my friends' bands and try to shed a light on a greater group of people, I realized that our favorite music and art, and Sublime in particular, is sort of a response and a result of a scene of people in Southern California living anyways,' he says. He nods his head toward his friends, also shirtless, noodling around on a guitar. 'The guys in there are drinking tequila and making punk rock music.' He cares very deeply about Sublime, because Sublime is more than just the T-shirts and songs from 30-plus years ago that still resonate today. And he cares very deeply about what Sublime means to you. 'What is more important than trying to be big or get chicks and play cool shows, I think it's more about those intense moments where someone's hurt and you've gotta visit them in the hospital and everyone shows up. Or people rally together and help someone who's down because you all met at a show together. Or you got fired from your job or broke up with your person, and all you have is that one CD or playlist. If I had a part in someone's soundtrack to the highs and lows of their life, that's just really special and cool to me, man.' He sounds just like him, doesn't he? To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, click here. Solve the daily Crossword
