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Circle Jerks have announced rescheduled North American tour dates after recently postponing a large chunk of dates on their spring run due to singer Keith Morris’ bout with COVID-19.

The rescheduled shows kick off July 7th in New York City and run through September 6th in Austin, Texas. Negative Approach, 7Seconds, and Descendents will remain as support on select dates.

Leading up to the rescheduled gigs, Circle Jerks will play shows tonight (May 11th) in Pomona, California, and Friday (May 13th) in Los Angeles, as well as previously scheduled concerts in late June and early July. Get tickets to all of the upcoming Circle Jerks concerts via Ticketmaster.

Upon the initial announcement of Keith Morris’ bout with COVID-19, the iconic hardcore band stated, “We had hoped it wouldn’t come to this, but our fearless singer, our dude, Keith Morris, is headed home to rest for 10 days as he recovers from COVID-19. This will not stop Keith!”

View the full updated list of shows below.

Circle Jerks’ 2022 North American Tour Dates: 05/11 – Pomona, CA @ Glass House !^ 05/13 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium !^ 06/22 – Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theatre # 06/24 – Phoenix, AZ @ Van Buren # 06/25 – Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre # 07/01 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom ! 07/02 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox @ Market ! 07/03 – Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom * 07/07 – New York, NY @ Irving Plaza ! 07/08 – New York, NY @ Irving Plaza ! 07/09 – Stroudsburg, PA @ Sherman Theater ! 07/11 – Richmond, VA @The Broadberry ! 07/12 – Washington, DC @ Black Cat ! 07/13 – Asbury Park, NJ @ Stone Pony ! 07/15 – Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts ! 07/16 – Boston, MA @ House Of Blues ! 07/17 – South Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground ! 07/20 – Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel ! 07/21 – Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl ! 07/22 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade ! 07/24 – New Orleans, LA @ Tipitina’s Uptown ! 08/20 – Greenwood Willage, CO @ PID & Fiddler’s Green 08/25 – Berkeley, CA @ UC Theatre % 08/26 – Berkeley, CA @ UC Theatre % 08/27 – Pasadena, CA @ This Ain’t No Picnic 09/01 – Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater # 09/02 – San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger # 09/03 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall # 09/05 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk # 09/06 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk #

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The Salton Sea Basin feels almost alien. It lies where two enormous chunks of the Earth’s crust, the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate, are very slowly pushing past one another creating an enormous low spot in the land. It’s a big, flat gray desert ringed with high mountains that look pale in the distance. It’s hot and, deep underground, it is literally boiling.

The Salton Sea, which lies roughly in the middle of the massive geologic low point, isn’t really a sea, at all. The largest inland lake in California, it’s 51 miles long from north to south and 17 miles wide, but gradually shrinking as less and less water flows into it. At one time, it was a thriving entertainment and recreation spot, business that has also largely dried up. It’s left behind abandoned buildings and shallow, gray beaches. The highways that ring the lake are traversed now mostly by passing trucks.

Over the past few years, companies have been coming here to extract a valuable metal, lithium, that the car industry needs as it shifts to making electric cars. Lithium is the lightest naturally occurring metal element on Earth, and, for that reason among others, it’s important for electric car batteries, which must store a lot of electricity in a package that weighs as little as possible.

What’s more, with the Salton Sea Basin’s unique geography, engineers and technicians can get the lithium with minimal environmental destruction, according to companies that are working there. In other places, lithium is taken from the earth using hard rock mining that leaves huge, ugly scars in the land. Here, it exists naturally in a liquid form, so extraction doesn’t require mining or blasting.

Over thousands of years, floodwaters from the Colorado River, carrying minerals pulled away from the Rocky Mountains, the Ruby Canyon, Glen Canyon, the Grand Canyon and more, have washed into these lowlands. Time and again the water has come and evaporated, leaving behind metals that have ended up deep in the ground.

Lithium is abundant in the Salton Sea Basin. In fact, people working to extract it say there could be enough to make batteries for all the electric cars expected to be built in this country for many years, freeing the United States from reliance on foreign lithium suppliers. That’s been a priority for the Biden administration.

The Earth’s crust is thin here, and there’s water deep underground close to the seething hot liquid rock inside the Earth, called magma. Trapped in that naturally occurring oven, that water has become a super-heated mineral stew.

Geothermal energy companies have been here for decades drilling down into the nearly 700 degree water, allowing it to instantly boil up out of the ground. Steam from the hot brine — so-called because of its high mineral content — spins turbines, generating electricity. It’s then pumped back down into the Earth where it gets heated back up to start over again. This sort of energy is considered clean and renewable since it relies on heat occurring naturally in the Earth.

“It’s one of the largest geothermal energy fields in the world,” said Derek Benson, chief operating officer of EnergySource Minerals.

EnergySource Minerals was spun off in 2018 from EnergySource, a geothermal power company that’s been generating electricity from hot Salton Sea brine for a decade. EnergySource Minerals is now working to get lithium from the brine it’s been using for energy.

How much lithium is here, exactly, and how much might be extracted, are questions that a research team from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories are working to figure out.

Roughly a quarter of the water taken from deep underground here is dissolved rocks, a vastly higher mineral concentration than you you’d find in ordinary seawater, according to Patrick Dobson, a Berkeley Labs geologist leading the research. Lithium makes up roughly 200 parts per million, he said, which compares to about 10 parts per million in some other hot geothermal fields.

“That’s why this is of interest,” he said. “It’s not just any geothermal brine. There’s certain places where there’s an enrichment in lithium in the brine and the Salton Sea is the place in the US where we’re really focusing our attention on.”

People who’ve worked with this brine have long known about its contents, but there’s no use for loads of undifferentiated minerals and selectively extracting them wasn’t economical. But that was before electric cars became a big deal, and the price of lithium started to rocket. So companies have invested in new technologies to pull lithium from the brine.

“We use what we call lithium selective adsorption,” said Benson. “And so we pass the lithium bearing brine across one of our proprietary adsorbers. It has a chemistry that has an affinity for lithium and really only the lithium.”

One of the challenges is how efficiently these technologies can draw lithium out of the brine, said Berkeley Labs’ Dobson. While there’s a lot of lithium in the brine, these extraction techniques probably won’t be able to take out 100% from every drop.

Also, as the lithium is taken out of the brine and the brine is then pumped back deep underground, will lithium levels be notably depleted or will the the levels be replenished as more lithium is leeched out of the rocks?

“We know from measurements of rocks that are still in the reservoir that not all the lithium is present in the brine,” he said. “There’s still lithium present in the rocks.”

Collecting lithium now looks like a bigger moneymaker for companies like EnergySource than their original business of just generating electricity from the steamy soup. In fact, other companies are getting into the geothermal energy business largely so they can get lithium. In their case, electricity is just a bonus.

Not far from EnergySource’s tan-colored geothermal power stations, a company called Controlled Thermal Resources has its own small power station. This one is currently in the testing phase, but CTR has already formed a partnership with General Motors, which will purchase lithium produced here for its electric vehicles. More recently, the Italian EV battery company Italvolt announced plans for a spin-off company to work with CTR. Plans call for Statevolt, as the spin-off is called, to build a battery manufacturing facility nearby, using both energy produced by CTR’s generators and lithium taken from brine there. The plant could someday produce enough batteries for 650,000 electric vehicles annually, according to Italvolt.

Putting battery manufacturing on-site will eliminate material shipping costs as well as the carbon dioxide emissions from all the ships, trains and trucks needed to carry the lithium to battery factories that are, today, mostly located in Asia, said Rod Colwell, CEO of CTR.

This new rush of interest could mean good things for a community that needs some help. Decades ago, the Salton Sea was a tourist destination, with people flocking to the California desert oasis to enjoy boating and water skiing. That was before evaporation dried up the lake, concentrating pollutants in the shrinking body of water.

“You would find people from Hollywood, the luminaries from Southern California coming to boat and enjoy the fine restaurants, playing golf,” said Frank Ruiz, Salton Sea program director for the National Audobon Society. “That was the life of the Salton Sea in the 50s and 60s and only 50 years later, this is what we have,” he said, looking around a largely abandoned lakeside beach.

“You went from being the Western Riviera to being one of the worst nightmares environmentally and public health-wise,” he said.

The lake has been shrinking due to a lack of natural in-flows, combined with years of drought and rising temperatures from climate change. As the lake continues to recede it leaves behind sand and gooey mud high in pollutants. That, combined with the fact that area is a natural basin that tends to trap and hold smoke and smog from surrounding areas, contributes to high asthma rates, he said.

Today, the area feels almost abandoned besides some evidently thriving date farms with rows of thick-trunked palm trees. Artists have been attracted to the area’s blank canvas of empty structures and open spaces, creating a colony of wildly painted and decorated houses. Large wire-and-concrete sculptures inhabit the beach.

What has flooded into the area several times over the eons. The lake that exists today was created around 1905 when man-made canals overflowed into the desert lowlands. For a long time, the large lake that resulted was a boon for traveling birds, as well as for watersport enthusiasts.

“We used to get over 400 different species of birds and pretty much all the species that we have in California, in the Salton Sea,” said Ruiz. “From an environmental perspective, it is one of the last standing jewels along the Pacific Flyway, especially here in California.”

The lake and its water are not linked to the lithium-rich undergound brine but, Ruiz hopes, lithium extraction can provide jobs and revenue to help rebuild the Salton Sea region’s economy and maybe even its damaged environment, in addition to putting more electric cars on the road.

“This can be really good for the region altogether. Not just for Imperial County, for the Coachella Valley, for all Californians,” Ruiz said. “I mean, nationwide, it can be a catalyst.”

Name Jacoby Shaddix, Papa Roach

Best known for Cutting lives into pieces since 2000.

Current city Sacramento, CA, but actually currently shooting a new music video at the Salton Sea, CA.

Really want to be in Sayulita, MX eating tacos on the beach.

Excited about Ego trippin’ with my bandmates all year long.

My current music collection has a lot of Streaming services have a lot of everything. It’s all at your fingertips and ready to be discovered.

And a little bit of All the way from ASAP Rocky to Zeppelin.

Preferred format Streaming because my kids broke my record player while I was out on tour — and blew my speakers out. Kids, man.

5 Albums I Can’t Live Without:

1

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), Wu-Tang Clan

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) came at a time in my life when I was really looking for something new and different and it struck me from the first listen. Just their lyrics, the imagery, the Kung-Fu element to it, the dirty, grimy hip-hop beats. It was just inspiring and I remember once I started playing that record, I could not stop. I listened to that album obsessively for about a year.

2 Revolver, The Beatles

It’s been in my truck now for three years straight. It’s the only CD that I have in my truck and I keep goin’ back to it. It’s right before they went deep into the super crazy oddball stylings of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, etc., and it’s just the perfect balance of kooky, outside-of-the-box rock with amazing pop songs, all in one. And uh, I mean right off the rip “Taxman”–it’s just such a great groove. I can put this record on when I’m in the car and I can groove out to it, I can put this record on when my family’s in the car and they groove out to it. It’s one of those albums that, not only myself but my family, my wife and my kids, love as well. We sing along, it just…there’s something so special about Revolver.

3 The Shape of Punk To Come, Refused

I remember exactly where I was the first time I heard this, we were recording our album Infestin North Hollywood, California and MTV2 came on and there was this dude swinging upside down, screaming and I’m like “what the fuck is this?.” Hardcore, they got elements of jazz in there, and the way that they fused all these styles together, it just blew my mind, it was so ahead of its time. It’s still a record that holds up to this day. A lot of people in the rock and metal and punk scene revere this album as just a fuckin’ musical masterpiece and what a great live band as well. Fuck, I love the Refused.

4 Around the Fur, Deftones

Growing up in the area and going and watching Deftones early on in my teen years and just being so inspired by what they were bringing to the local scene and to watch them grow…watch them go from a club band to getting a record deal, putting out Adrenaline and then they put out Around the Fur and it was like they came into their own on this record. Musically, it’s pushing the limits for hard rock, and alternative rock. Chino is such a unique vocalist, Abe is such an amazing drummer, Chi Cheng, an amazing bass player, rest in peace, Steph on guitar. All great players in their own right and they really shined on this record.

5 Appetite for Destruction, Guns N’ Roses

Appetite for Destruction came at a point in my life where I was ready for something new. I was listening to Poison and Def Leppard and I just was ready for some more danger and discovered Guns N’ Roses. I believe it was MTV where I saw “Welcome to the Jungle” and I just…“fuck I want to tease my hair out like that, I want to move to the country, to the big city, I wanna be in a rock ‘n roll band.” It stirred all those feelings inside at a young age. This album’s full of great musicianship, great songwriting. The image of the band, they just look like fuckin’ feral rock ‘n rollers with a little edge of punk to ‘em in a way. I just love what they brought to music, because it was stadium rock but then it was also dirty street rock…within the same album, within the same body of work. So yeah, can’t live without me some Guns N’ Roses–Guns-N’-fucking-Roses, that’s actually what I would like to say.

DoorDash announced Monday the launch of a delivery-focused food hall-like concept in Brooklyn. DoorDash Kitchens Brooklyn will be the first DoorDash Kitchens location to offer permanent, indoor seating within the ghost kitchen network that launched two years ago. The commissary kitchen will eventually offer five different national and local restaurant brands as part of a delivery-forward food hall concept with limited seating for 20 people.

Starting today, New York City sushi brand DomoDomo, Brooklyn-based fried chicken and pies brand, Pies ‘n’ Thighs, and Williamsburg-based dim sum restaurant, Kings So Imperial, will be available at the DoorDash Kitchens spot located at the shared-use commercial kitchen, Nimbus in Downtown Brooklyn. Soon, DoorDash will add San Francisco Korean bowls concept Moonbowls to the roster, as well as Little Caesars. Customers will also be able to purchase coffee from New York City roaster, Birch Coffee; pastries from virtual bakery, Kado Patisri, and iconic crack

pies and cereal milk ice cream from Milk Bar.

“New York City and Brooklyn are two distinct locations, where there isn’t always consumer overlap,” Ruth Isenstadt, Senior Director of DoorDash Kitchens told Nation’s Restaurant News. “We heard from our restaurant partners that being able to serve Brooklyn — some for the first time like DomoDomo — is a helpful way to reach more customers and test a new location without committing to a brick and mortar. We are committed to providing consumers with the best of their neighborhood, which include a mixture of national and local favorites.”

DoorDash Kitchens launched in early 2020 as a ghost kitchen network experiment in the San Francisco Bay Area and two years later, now has two locations in the San Jose area and North Hollywood, California. With the opening of each new location, DoorDash has offered a delivery-only commissary kitchen with a mix of chain and independent eateries that acts as a vehicle for restaurants to expand their off-premises each without having to open a full location. In the Redwood City location, guests have already been able to dine outdoors during the warmer months of the year, but DoorDash Kitchens Brooklyn will be the first location to offer permanent indoor seating.

While the concept might sound like a reverse virtual food hall,Isenstadt said the difference between a DoorDash Kitchens location and a food hall is the ease of delivery operations:

“DoorDash Kitchens Brooklyn is optimized for delivery, whereas many food halls are focused on their on-premises offerings,” she said. “All of the restaurants within DoorDash Kitchens feed into a unified dispatch area, where DoorDash supports the handoff of orders to Dashers and customers. To provide a seamless experience, Dashers pick up orders at a distinct window outside of the building.”

DoorDash is not the only delivery platform dipping its toes into operations: Grubhub announced this week the launch of an original virtual restaurant concept, MastersChef Table.

DoorDash Kitchens Brooklyn will be available for pickup or delivery to customers in Dumbo, Park Slope, Cobble Hill, Fort Greene, Brooklyn Heights, Gowanus, Clinton Hill, and Prospect Heights and will be available for dine-in from 7 am-10 pm, with late night takeout options available from 10:00-11:00 pm.

“Our Williamsburg location is just a few miles away from the new DoorDash Kitchens location, yet this new location will make our food even more accessible to our customers,” Josh Grinker, chef and co-owner of Kings Co Imperial said in a statement. “We’re excited about partnering with DoorDash Kitchens Brooklyn, as this is a natural extension of our existing partnership and helps us get our food to our loyal customers faster, hotter, and better.”

On a nondescript stretch of Vanowen Street in North Hollywood sits a squat yellow apartment complex that spans an entire city block.

The complex, which holds 116 units, sits adjacent to a Catholic church and is about 450 feet from a middle school. It’s also an alleged stronghold of the North Hollywood Locos gang, according to a new nuisance abatement lawsuit filed by Los Angeles City Atty. Mike Feuer.

The suit, filed Feb. 15 in Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleges that there have been nine gang-related shootings at the complex in the last 15 months, with five occurring since December due to an “ongoing turf war” with rival gang MS-13.

“In our lawsuit, we allege that the owner — one of the largest landlords in California — and operator have allowed these incredibly dangerous conditions to persist,” Feuer said in a statement.

The complex is owned by Swaranjit “Mike” Nijjar, whose “billion-dollar real estate empire” consists of more than 1,000 units in the city alone, the suit says.

The complaint targets Nijjar and his company, Group IX BP Properties Inc., as well as the building’s management companies, Golden Management Services Inc. and Pama Management Inc. The director of Pama Management is Nijjar’s sister, Daljit Kler, according to court documents.

Representatives for Nijjar and Kler could not immediately be reached for comment.

In a statement, Feuer, who is also running for mayor of L.A., accused the owner and operators of allowing gang-related violence and dangerous activities to occur regularly at the property.

Nijjar took ownership of the complex — which is composed of 12 two-story buildings in the 13100 and 13200 blocks of Vanowen Street — in 2001.

“The violence at and around this gang-ridden property has got to stop now,” Feuer said. “It’s so bad that the church next door had to suspend youth activities during this recent outbreak of shootings to keep young congregants out of harm’s way, then erect a metal barrier to deflect bullets.”

According to the complaint, members of the NH Locos gang have tagged the building with graffiti to “make clear to the tenants, community members and rivals that the gang claims control of the property and will aggressively and violently defend it.”

In one incident last December, two victims were robbed on the sidewalk in front of the property after gang members placed guns to their foreheads, the suit says. After the robbery, one of the suspects opened fire and struck a victim in the hip and foot before fleeing into the property.

In a separate incident in October, approximately 60 children were playing in the parking lot at the nearby St. Paul Assyrian Chaldean Catholic Church when a stray bullet whizzed overhead, the suit says. A stray bullet also passed through a church window in May 2020.

Gang members have also attempted to recruit students on their walk to the nearby James Madison Middle School, the suit alleges. The school is attended by more than 1,600 sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders.

“No tenant in this city should be forced to live in the kind of conditions that have existed at 13100 Vanowen,” Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Krekorian said in a statement.

Krekorian, whose district includes North Hollywood, added that “despite our work to uplift this neighborhood, the owner of this property has continued to fail to keep the tenants safe.”

Feuer said he is asking the court to order Nijjar to live in the complex until an array of improvements have been implemented, including the installation of secure fencing and video monitoring systems.

“Let him learn what it’s like to live with shooting after shooting, because that’s what the hard-working families at this property endure all the time,” Feuer said.

Other requested changes include improved screening of tenants and the addition of security guards. The suit also seeks civil penalties against Nijjar and Kler.

It’s not the first time the city attorney has taken action against the owner.

In 2017, Feuer sued Nijjar for similar gang-related nuisances at another property, the 415-unit Chesapeake Apartments in Baldwin Village. That case was settled after court-mandated improvements were made, he said.

In announcing the suit this week, Feuer urged the city’s residents to report unsafe and violent conditions in their neighborhoods.

Problem properties can be reported anonymously online or by calling (213) 978-8340.