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KEND EDITI EE ON W a FREE Santa Monica Daily Press April 16-17, 2005 A newspaper with issues Volume 4, Issue 133 DAILY LOTTERY SUPER LOTTO Fighting at Samohi prompts lockdown 34 38 42 43 45 Meganumber: 19 Jackpot: $16 Million BY RYAN HYATT FANTASY 5 Daily Press Staff Writer 9 20 22 27 33 DAILY 3 SAMOHI — A lunchtime melee Daytime: 5 8 0 involving dozens of students Evening: 6 4 0 prompted the campus here to go DAILY DERBY into lockdown, alarming parents 1st: 08 Gorgeous George who received anxious phone calls 2nd: 04 Big Ben from their children relegated to 3rd: 06 Whirl Win RACE TIME: 1:45.67 their classrooms. School officials acknowledged NEWS OF THE WEIRD they were aware an altercation BY CHUCK SHEPARD may have been brewing between students late in the morning at ■ At the annual Muslim “stone the Santa Monica High School. They devil” ritual near Mecca in January, responded quickly when at least clerics had feared a repeat of 2004, six fights broke out on the campus when more than 250 people were trampled to death (among the 2 million during the lunch hour. The Santa in attendance), but fatalities dropped to Monica Police were called to the the average level this year (just three, scene at 12:44 p.m. to help secure according to one report) after larger targets were installed so that partici- the campus after a message was pants did not have to get so close to broadcast announcing students stone them. On the other hand, in the were to return to their classrooms same week, an annual Hindu goddess- worship ritual in Maharashtra state in for a lockdown. India resulted in as many as 300 John Deasy, Santa Monica- deaths when a fire broke out in a road- Malibu Unified School District side stall near the Mandhar Devi tem- ple, provoking a stampede. superintendent, said 30 to 40 stu- ■ News of the Weird last reported on dents stopped fighting, but would- “furries” in 2001, after 400 of them n’t return to class. gathered at a convention in Chicago, “This was not a lockdown that but the TV show “CSI” recently fea- tured a similar convention as backdrop occurred, say, because there was a for a show, and the number of their shooting on campus,” Deasy said. practitioners has grown, with 1,700 “Samohi officials erred on the side Alejandro Cesar Cantarero II/Daily Press attending “FurCon” in January in San A Santa Monica High School student is escorted away shortly after a series of fights broke out on campus around Jose, Calif., for a weekend of dressing See SCHOOL FIGHTS, page 6 as animals, assuming animal person- lunchtime. No serious injuries were reported and police had yet to determine if the melee was gang or racially motivated. alities, petting and scratching each other, and even, after hours, engaging in what one called “cross-species mating.” An estimated 300 were in Governor looks full-body makeup (with lions, tigers Gay bar’s lights to dim and foxes popular) while most others wore partial outfits (a tail or perhaps to Penny Lane whiskers or ears). BY RYAN HYATT Hammond said Friendship, Daily Press Staff Writer which opened its doors in 1938, By Daily Press staff INDEX was patronized by servicemen Horoscopes SM CANYON — It’s a last during World War II and for years Delia Isabel Soto, of Santa Others admire you, Scorpio 2 chance to have cocktails with the had a mixed clientele, all the Monica, has been appointed by Surf Report boys, as the oldest standing gay while attracting local gays who Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Water temperature: 55° 3 bar in Santa Monica celebrates its hung out at Will Rogers Beach to deputy director of communi- Opinion final hurrah this weekend. and lived in Santa Monica. cations and legislation for the A read-letter day 4 The Friendship, tucked away at “There used to be five gay bars State Council on Development- 112 West Channel Rd. in the Santa around here,” Hammond said. al Disabilities. State You and what Army? 9 Monica Canyon, is throwing its “There were four on Main Street. Soto has served as the mar- “Last Voyage Party” on Sunday. Santa Monica was popular with keting and development director National The bar’s lease is up and the land- the boys, but Friendship is the only for Penny Lane Centers from Pardon the interruption 13 Ryan Hyatt/Daily Press lord wants market value for the one left. Everyone comes here.” 2001 to 2004. Penny Lane’s International Smokey Hammond, a bartender at the site, a price the owner’s not going Hammond said increasing rents mission is to help abused and Coming U.N. done 15 Friendship, struggles with saying to pay, according to Smokey have forced the gay bars out, but neglected children that cares for Classifieds good-bye to the longtime Santa Hammond, 51, who has bartended See SOTO, page 8 Ad space odyssey 17 Monica staple. at Friendship for 18 years. See FRIENDSHIP, page 8 GABY SCHKUD We’re in SEE HOW GOOD ZERO CAN TASTE The name you can depend on! 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