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For more than 40 years, Craig Yancey has been working as a professional musician and educator. Most recently, he has been selected as Arts Council Menifee’s Artist of the Month for June.

Intrigued by the idea of staying on board a yacht, my husband Lloyd and I headed to Long Beach, stopping at Joe’s Crab Shack in Puente Hills to devour a delicious and spicy Crawfish Etouffee. Upon arrival in Long Beach, we browsed among the quaint shops of the harbor-side Shoreline Village.

Jimmy and Enrique is a world music acoustic duo comprised of Jimmy Patton and Enrique Platas. The duo, based out of San Diego has been touring and recording for a number of years both individually and as this wonderful duo. The Latin and Middle Eastern infused music of these two artist sounds like six on stage. The colorful acoustic richness of the layers of sound transport the listener to another world.

Like his two most immediate predecessors, President Donald Trump marked the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in a speech at the Pentagon and, like them, still unable to end America’s longest war, in Afghanistan.

Senators pushing to require background checks for private gun sales made a fresh pitch to President Donald Trump on Wednesday as part of an effort to break the gridlock over legislation to curb gun violence following a summer of more mass shootings .