Angelenos 'Come Together' to Honor Classic Fab Four Album
BEVERLYPRESS.COM INSIDE • Saber-toothed skull fails to sell Sunny, with pg. 3 highs in the • Stabbing on upper 70s Cahuenga pg. 4 Volume 29 No. 40 Serving the Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Hancock Park and Wilshire Communities October 3, 2019 Sidewalk sleeping Angelenos ‘Come Together’ to proposal sent back honor classic Fab Four album n Homelessness committee to amend ordinance n Vine Street hosts BY CAMERON KISZLA full council a proposed new ordi- Abbey Road recreation nance to replace Municipal Code in honor of Beatles A contentious Los Angeles City 41.18, an ordinance that prohibits Council meeting on Sept. 24 is like- people from standing, sitting or BY CAMERON KISZLA ly to lead to changes to a proposal lying on sidewalks in a way that to limit street sleeping in the city. impedes pedestrians, essentially Los Angeles City Councilman Councilman Mitch O’Farrell, banning people from sleeping on Mitch O’Farrell, 13th District, 13th District, serves as chair of the the street. said the Beatles are “really the Homelessness and Poverty See Council page 25 soundtrack to my life.” The band Committee, which brought to the has long been his favorite group, and he said the Beatles were instrumental in lifting him up dur- ing a depressive time in 2000. “I was just so down in the dumps,” O’Farrell said. “I thought, ‘Just turn everything off, photo by Cameron Kiszla read a lot and listen to the Public Works Commissioner Kevin James, Los Angeles City Councilman Beatles.’ That’s exactly what I did Mitch O’Farrell, 13th District, and actor Sir Patrick Stewart recreated the for months.
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