ARTS
Summer, Shuttered
Ellen Griley likes community projects—or at least Summer Shutters, a new coffee table book about Bixby Knolls. Also, Griley dances with the dead at 2nd City Council Gallery’s new show.

NEWS
Swamp Swap
City officials are putting the finishing touches on a complicated scheme to bail millionaire developer Tom Dean out of a bad real estate deal . . . oh, and to save the wetlands, too.

FEATURE
Flat Top Joints
The retro barber shop scene, which arguably has its beginnings with Jake’s Barbershop in Orange, is famous for its vintage surroundings, roots music—and male clientele. But as Theo Douglas reports, it’s also known for men like the late Jake Bricks—founder of Jake’s Barbershop—and the late Justin Lovato, of Hawleywood’s Barbershop: true characters who set their troubles aside whenever they picked up a comb.

FOOD+DRINK
Dosa Days
Miles Clements pledges allegiance to Udupi Palace and Ellen Griley breaks egg roll rules in Sides.

MUSIC
Flannel Rock
Francisco the Man fills out our Musicians’ Questionnaire and Ellen Griley reviews new releases by the Soft Hands and Slings.

FILM
Lindy West: Synecdoche, New York is utterly depressing.