And Long Beach Playhouse gets a new director

Tuesday’s Long Beach City Council meeting was a busy one–in part, no doubt because with the holidays upon us, the Council won’t meet again until Jan. 8.

One of the many projects it approved during the last meeting of the old year was the much-discussed Shoreline Gateway project: a 35-story retail-residential skyscraper on the northwest corner of Alamitos Avenue and Ocean Boulevard.

Now, as District writer Heather Reger told you back in August, some people have indeed raised questions about locating what would be the tallest building in the city on the shortest street in the city–the one-block Medio Street–and how drivers will circumnavigate all that when they exit the underground parking.

From the city’s tallest building, onto the city’s shortest street.

But as the Press-Telegram’s Paul Eakins reveals, the Council was quite bullish on the Gateway. Second District Councilwoman Suja Lowenthal went so far as to describe it as “poetry in architecture.”

We’ll get to see for ourselves in about two years.

Elsewhere in the P-T, writer A.K. Whitney discovers that Long Beach Playhouse has picked a new director to replace Gigi Fusco Meese.

It’s Martie Ramm, who apparently teaches theater at Golden West College in Huntington Beach and has directed such Playhouse plays as “Run For Your Wife,” and “… And Then There Was Nun!” Also, the much less amusingly-titled “Cabaret.”

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