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Undid revision 1020960617 by Xxanthippe (talk) There's coverage from CBS News, the Los Angeles Times, Yahoo News, and many, many other news sources– nowhere in WP:BLP does it say that unproven accusations shouldn't be included– only that there must be consideration. The amount of coverage of the event precludes omission. There's no way we can leave this out. I'm starting an RfC if this becomes a war
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===Writing===
===Writing===
Smolin is the author of 2 novellas: ''Narcissus In The Dark'' (2012),<ref>{{cite book|title=''Narcissus In The Dark''|isbn=978-1478217602|last1=Smolin|first1=Barry|date=17 July 2012}}</ref> whose narrator is God sentenced to eternity in a dungeon and whose consciousness thinks new universes into being while sorting through the detritus of his troubled past, and the experimental prose project ''Wake Up In The Dreamhouse'',<ref>{{cite book|title=''Wake Up In The Dreamhouse''|isbn=1460927125}}</ref> composed one sentence at a time on [[Twitter]]. In May 2011, Smolin released a volume of selected poetry covering the years 1988–2010 entitled ''Always Be Madly In Love''.<ref>{{cite book|title=''Always Be Madly In Love''|isbn=1461190401}}</ref> His most recent fiction project is a Trilogy entitled ''The Miranda Complex,'' Volume 1 of which was published in 2016<ref>{{cite book|title=''The Miranda Complex Volume 1''|isbn=978-0692614204|last1=Smolin|first1=Barry|date=26 January 2016}}</ref> with Volume 2 following in 2017,<ref>{{cite book|title=''The Miranda Complex Volume 2''|isbn=978-0692797228|last1=Smolin|first1=Barry|year=2017}}</ref> and the concluding Volume 3 in 2018.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Miranda Complex Volume 3: The Man Behind The Curtain|last=Smolin|first=Barry|date=2018-01-16|publisher=Anomaly Press|isbn=9780692973769|edition= 1st|language=English}}</ref> ''The Miranda Complex'' chronicles the unconsummated romantic relationship between Lance Atlas and Miranda Savitch, 2 teenagers in 1970s Los Angeles.
Smolin is the author of 2 novellas: ''Narcissus In The Dark'' (2012),<ref>{{cite book|title=''Narcissus In The Dark''|isbn=978-1478217602|last1=Smolin|first1=Barry|date=17 July 2012}}</ref> whose narrator is God sentenced to eternity in a dungeon and whose consciousness thinks new universes into being while sorting through the detritus of his troubled past, and the experimental prose project ''Wake Up In The Dreamhouse'',<ref>{{cite book|title=''Wake Up In The Dreamhouse''|isbn=1460927125}}</ref> composed one sentence at a time on [[Twitter]]. In May 2011, Smolin released a volume of selected poetry covering the years 1988–2010 entitled ''Always Be Madly In Love''.<ref>{{cite book|title=''Always Be Madly In Love''|isbn=1461190401}}</ref> His most recent fiction project is a Trilogy entitled ''The Miranda Complex,'' Volume 1 of which was published in 2016<ref>{{cite book|title=''The Miranda Complex Volume 1''|isbn=978-0692614204|last1=Smolin|first1=Barry|date=26 January 2016}}</ref> with Volume 2 following in 2017,<ref>{{cite book|title=''The Miranda Complex Volume 2''|isbn=978-0692797228|last1=Smolin|first1=Barry|year=2017}}</ref> and the concluding Volume 3 in 2018.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Miranda Complex Volume 3: The Man Behind The Curtain|last=Smolin|first=Barry|date=2018-01-16|publisher=Anomaly Press|isbn=9780692973769|edition= 1st|language=English}}</ref> ''The Miranda Complex'' chronicles the unconsummated romantic relationship between Lance Atlas and Miranda Savitch, 2 teenagers in 1970s Los Angeles.

==Personal life==

=== Sexual harassment ===
On April 27, 2021, a woman filed a lawsuit under the name "Jane Doe" against the [[Los Angeles Unified School District]] and Smolin, accusing Smolin of sexually assaulting and grooming a minor student and accusing the district of inadequately responding to the abuse. The complaint alleges that Smolin began giving her special attention when she was a freshman at Alexander Hamilton High School in 2009, giving her music, books, and eventually alcohol and drugs. The lawsuit then alleges that the attention escalated into a physical and sexual relationship by the time she was a senior. The complaint also alleges that Smolin and that other students and adults knew about their relationship, referring to it as “a worst-kept secret at Hamilton". In particular, the complaint contends that a teacher "walked in and Smolin literally threw plaintiff off of him and onto the seat next to him", and accused one other teacher of being aware of the abuse.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2021-04-30|title=LAUSD Teacher Accused Of Grooming, Sexually Abusing Teen Girl|url=https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/04/30/lausd-lawsuit-barry-smolin-accused/|access-date=2021-05-01|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="LAT-SHLawsuit">{{cite web |last1=Wigglesworth |first1=Alex |title=Lawsuit alleges sex abuse by teacher at Hamilton High School |url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-05-01/lawsuit-alleges-sex-abuse-by-teacher-at-hamilton-high-school |website=Los Angeles Times |date=1 May 2021}}</ref> Smolin has not issued a response to these allegations.<ref name=":0" />

The ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' commented that the school has a history of abuse, pointing to a case settled in 2015 where the district settled with four students who accused a teacher of having sex with them from the mid 1990s through 2010.<ref name="LAT-SHLawsuit"/>


==Discography==
==Discography==

Revision as of 05:26, 2 May 2021

Barry Smolin
Background information
Also known asMr. Smolin
Born (1961-04-20) April 20, 1961 (age 63)
OriginLos Angeles, California

Barry Smolin, also known as Mr. Smolin (born April 20, 1961) is an American radio host, teacher, composer, and writer. He was accused of sexual harassment by a former student on April 27, 2021.

Career

Radio

The Music Never Stops

From 1995 to 2012, Smolin was the host of The Music Never Stops, a psychedelic radio show on KPFK in Los Angeles, California[1] for which Smolin won the first ever Jammy Award for "Best Radio Show" in 2000.[2] Smolin's program was also nominated for an LA Weekly Music Award in 2004 in the "Best Radio Show" category.[3] The Music Never Stops began as a program featuring live recordings of the Grateful Dead, but after the death of Jerry Garcia; Smolin expanded the scope of the show to include contemporary jam-rock and miscellaneous psychedelia, paying special attention to music being made by musicians in Los Angeles. The program has been covered in Relix magazine[4] and Jambands.com.

Head Room

Smolin is currently the host of the program Head Room on KPFK,[5] heard every Sunday Night from 8pm-10pm.

Teaching

Smolin's teaching career has been featured in articles in Time[6] and the Los Angeles Times,[7] as well as in the Larchmont Chronicle,[8] and the Library Foundation of L.A.'s "My Moby-Dick" tribute.[9][10] From 1987 to 1992, Smolin taught English at Fairfax High School (the school Smolin himself graduated from in 1978) in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Since leaving Fairfax in 1992, he has been on the faculty at Alexander Hamilton High School, teaching English in the Hamilton Humanities Magnet program.

Music

Pop Music

As a songwriter, Smolin has composed music for the Showtime television series Weeds, with his song "The Earth Keeps Turning On" appearing in Season 3's Episode 7, entitled "He Taught Me How To Drive By"[11] as well as on the Weeds Season 3 Soundtrack album. Under the performance moniker Mr. Smolin he has released four albums, At Apogee (2004) and The Crumbling Empire Of White People (2007) (both produced by Tony Award winning composer/dramatist Stew, best known for his musical Passing Strange), a Los Angeles song-cycle entitled Bring Back The Real Don Steele (2009),[12] and a collaboration with Double Naught Spy Car entitled Heaven's Not High (2013). In 2015, Smolin released two singles: "Fairfax High School" about his alma mater and "The Man I Met Once."

Experimental Music

Since 2016, Smolin has primarily composed experimental pieces, both instrumental and spoken word. With Double Naught Spy Car, he set chapter 1 of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake to music as part of the Waywords and Meansigns Project,[13] which was released in 2016 as was an album of the project's instrumental tracks called "That Tragoady Thundersday." In September 2017, he released an instrumental album entitled The Sooterkin Library, a trio project that Smolin describes as "12-Tone Avant-Freak Mongrel Psycho-Tonk.".[14]

Writing

Smolin is the author of 2 novellas: Narcissus In The Dark (2012),[15] whose narrator is God sentenced to eternity in a dungeon and whose consciousness thinks new universes into being while sorting through the detritus of his troubled past, and the experimental prose project Wake Up In The Dreamhouse,[16] composed one sentence at a time on Twitter. In May 2011, Smolin released a volume of selected poetry covering the years 1988–2010 entitled Always Be Madly In Love.[17] His most recent fiction project is a Trilogy entitled The Miranda Complex, Volume 1 of which was published in 2016[18] with Volume 2 following in 2017,[19] and the concluding Volume 3 in 2018.[20] The Miranda Complex chronicles the unconsummated romantic relationship between Lance Atlas and Miranda Savitch, 2 teenagers in 1970s Los Angeles.

Personal life

Sexual harassment

On April 27, 2021, a woman filed a lawsuit under the name "Jane Doe" against the Los Angeles Unified School District and Smolin, accusing Smolin of sexually assaulting and grooming a minor student and accusing the district of inadequately responding to the abuse. The complaint alleges that Smolin began giving her special attention when she was a freshman at Alexander Hamilton High School in 2009, giving her music, books, and eventually alcohol and drugs. The lawsuit then alleges that the attention escalated into a physical and sexual relationship by the time she was a senior. The complaint also alleges that Smolin and that other students and adults knew about their relationship, referring to it as “a worst-kept secret at Hamilton". In particular, the complaint contends that a teacher "walked in and Smolin literally threw plaintiff off of him and onto the seat next to him", and accused one other teacher of being aware of the abuse.[21][22] Smolin has not issued a response to these allegations.[21]

The Los Angeles Times commented that the school has a history of abuse, pointing to a case settled in 2015 where the district settled with four students who accused a teacher of having sex with them from the mid 1990s through 2010.[22]

Discography

  • At Apogee (2004), produced by Stew[23]
  • The Crumbling Empire Of White People (2007), produced by Stew[24]
  • Bring Back The Real Don Steele (2009)[25]
  • Heaven's Not High (2013)[26]
  • Fairfax High School (single, 2015)[27]
  • The Man I Met Once (single, 2015)[28]
  • Mutt and Jute (single, 2016)[29]
  • Finnegans Wake Chapter 1 (Waywords and Meansigns, 2016)[30]
  • That Tragoady Thundersday (2016)[31]
  • The Sooterkin Library (2017)[32]
  • The Mookse & The Gripes (2018)[33]
  • Mysterium Fidei (2018)[34]
  • The Mole With A Hole In The Whole Of Him (2018)[35]
  • The Five Decades (2018)[36]
  • The Four Mysteries (2018)[37]
  • My Lunch With Lautréamont (2018)[38]
  • Baby Methuselah (2019)[39]
  • Ancients Link With Presents As The Human Chain Extends (2019)[40]
  • Always Be Madly In Love (2019)[41]
  • unspoken (2019)[42]
  • The Age of Endarkenment (2019)[43]
  • Before You Know It (2019)[44]
  • Water Signs (2019)[45]
  • The Day I Met Blassie & Tolos (2019)[46]
  • The Humpback of Nostradamus (2019)[47]
  • Play Free (2019), with Vince Meghrouni[48]
  • The Fantastic Catch (2020)[49]
  • Eyelid Movies (2020)[50]
  • Outside Norms (2020)[51]
  • Say No More (2020)[52]
  • Antediluvian Future (2020)[53]
  • Lurch (2020)[54]
  • Smoke on the Altar (2020)[55]
  • The Minerva Syndrome (2020)[56]
  • Remember My Chains (2020)[57]
  • Doo-Dads (2020)[58]
  • The God Paradox (2020)[59]
  • Havdalah Sonata (2020)[60]
  • That's What They All Say (2020)[61]
  • Pretend To Play (2020)[62]
  • In the Name of Zarking Fardwarks (2020)[63]
  • Slide Down My Rainbow (2020)[64]
  • Hypostasy (2020), with Vince Meghrouni[65]
  • Strange Fire (2020)[66]
  • Great Seizure's Ghost (2020)[67]
  • Radio Andromeda (2020)[68]
  • Frenching (2021)[69]
  • Ode To Billy Jack (2021)[70]
  • Maps To Stars Homes (2021)[71]
  • A Jew In Space (2021)[72]
  • Underworld Orchestra (2021)[73]
  • Ersatz Classics (2021)[74]
  • We Are The Ancestors (2021)[75]
  • When A Weasel Steals Your Chumetz (2021)[76]
  • I Knew It By The River (2021)[77]
  • A Trespass Offering (2021)[78]
  • Tender Buttons (2021)[79]
  • A Pocketful of Poesies (2021)[80]
  • Deep In The Sea-Meant Pond (2021)[81]
  • We Hear Voices (2021)[82]

Bibliography

  • Wake Up In The Dreamhouse (2011)
  • Always Be Madly In Love (2011)
  • Narcissus In The Dark (2012)
  • The Miranda Complex Volume 1: Munchkinland (2016)
  • The Miranda Complex Volume 2: Poppies (2017)
  • The Miranda Complex Volume 3: The Man Behind The Curtain (2018)

References

  1. ^ "The Music Never Stops with Barry Smolin". Archived from the original on 2008-09-22. Retrieved 2008-09-14.
  2. ^ Jammy Award#Award Winners
  3. ^ "LAWMA 2004".
  4. ^ "Radio Rebels: 6 Shows that Bring Jambands to The Airwaves".
  5. ^ "Head Room".
  6. ^ "Who's Teaching Our Children?". Time. 1988-11-14. Retrieved 2010-04-26.
  7. ^ Ricci, James (2006-06-09). "Yes, He Does Digress". The Los Angeles Times.
  8. ^ "Barry Smolin". Archived from the original on 2007-04-25. Retrieved 2008-09-14.
  9. ^ "The Voice of Ishmael".
  10. ^ "In The Beginning".
  11. ^ "Showtime – Weeds Music". Archived from the original on 2011-06-15. Retrieved 2011-06-26.
  12. ^ "The Real Don Steele is Alive! Alive!". L.A. Weekly.
  13. ^ "Waywords and Meansigns".
  14. ^ "The Sooterkin Library".
  15. ^ Smolin, Barry (17 July 2012). Narcissus In The Dark. ISBN 978-1478217602.
  16. ^ Wake Up In The Dreamhouse. ISBN 1460927125.
  17. ^ Always Be Madly In Love. ISBN 1461190401.
  18. ^ Smolin, Barry (26 January 2016). The Miranda Complex Volume 1. ISBN 978-0692614204.
  19. ^ Smolin, Barry (2017). The Miranda Complex Volume 2. ISBN 978-0692797228.
  20. ^ Smolin, Barry (2018-01-16). The Miranda Complex Volume 3: The Man Behind The Curtain (1st ed.). Anomaly Press. ISBN 9780692973769.
  21. ^ a b "LAUSD Teacher Accused Of Grooming, Sexually Abusing Teen Girl". 2021-04-30. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
  22. ^ a b Wigglesworth, Alex (1 May 2021). "Lawsuit alleges sex abuse by teacher at Hamilton High School". Los Angeles Times.
  23. ^ "At Apogee". Bandcamp. Mr. Smolin. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
  24. ^ "The Crumbling Empire Of White People". Bandcamp. Mr. Smolin. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
  25. ^ "Bring Back The Real Don Steele". Bandcamp. Mr. Smolin. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
  26. ^ "Heaven's Not High". Bandcamp. Mr. Smolin. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
  27. ^ "Fairfax High School". Bandcamp. Mr. Smolin. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
  28. ^ "The Man I Met Once". Bandcamp. Mr. Smolin. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
  29. ^ "Mutt and Jute". Bandcamp. Mr. Smolin. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
  30. ^ "Finnegans Wake Chapter 1".
  31. ^ "That Tragoady Thundersday".
  32. ^ "The Sooterkin Library".
  33. ^ Mr. Smolin, The Mookse & the Gripes, retrieved 2018-01-21
  34. ^ Mr. Smolin, Mysterium Fidei
  35. ^ Mr. Smolin, The Mole With A Hole In The Hole Of Him
  36. ^ Mr. Smolin, The Five Decades
  37. ^ Mr. Smolin, The Four Mysteries
  38. ^ Mr. Smolin, My Lunch With Lautréamont
  39. ^ Mr. Smolin, Baby Methuselah
  40. ^ Mr. Smolin, Ancients Link With Presents As The Human Chain Extends
  41. ^ Mr. Smolin, Always Be Madly In Love
  42. ^ Mr. Smolin, unspoken
  43. ^ Mr. Smolin, The Age of Endarkenment
  44. ^ Mr. Smolin, Before You Know It
  45. ^ Mr. Smolin, Water Signs
  46. ^ Mr. Smolin, The Day I Met Blassie & Tolos
  47. ^ Mr. Smolin, The Humpback of Nostradamus
  48. ^ Mr. Smolin, Play Free
  49. ^ Mr. Smolin, The Fantastic Catch
  50. ^ Mr. Smolin, Eyelid Movies
  51. ^ Mr. Smolin, Outside Norms
  52. ^ Mr. Smolin, Say No More
  53. ^ Mr. Smolin, Antediluvian Future
  54. ^ Mr. Smolin, Lurch
  55. ^ Mr. Smolin, Smoke on the Altar
  56. ^ Mr. Smolin, The Minerva Syndrome
  57. ^ Mr. Smolin, Remember My Chains
  58. ^ Mr. Smolin, Doo-Dads
  59. ^ Mr. Smolin, The God Paradox
  60. ^ Mr. Smolin, Havdalah Sonata
  61. ^ Mr. Smolin, That's What They All Say
  62. ^ Mr. Smolin, Pretend To Play
  63. ^ Mr. Smolin, In the Name of Zarking Fardwarks
  64. ^ Mr. Smolin, Slide Down My Rainbow
  65. ^ Mr. Smolin, Hypostasy
  66. ^ Mr. Smolin, Strange Fire
  67. ^ Mr. Smolin, Great Seizure's Ghost
  68. ^ Mr. Smolin, Radio Andromeda
  69. ^ Mr. Smolin, Frenching
  70. ^ Mr. Smolin, Ode To Billy Jack
  71. ^ Mr. Smolin, Maps To Stars Homes
  72. ^ Mr. Smolin, A Jew In Space
  73. ^ Mr. Smolin, Underworld Orchestra
  74. ^ Mr. Smolin, Ersatz Classics
  75. ^ Mr. Smolin, We Are The Ancestors
  76. ^ Mr. Smolin, When A Weasel Steals Your Chumetz
  77. ^ Mr. Smolin, I Knew It By The River
  78. ^ Mr. Smolin, A Trespass Offering
  79. ^ Mr. Smolin, Tender Buttons
  80. ^ Mr. Smolin, A Pocketful of Poesies
  81. ^ Mr. Smolin, Deep In The Sea-Meant Pond
  82. ^ Mr. Smolin, We Hear Voices
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