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Lobstergang
Dave Wielenga updates us on the city’s recent hour-long gang study session—held a mere hour after a 17-year-old was injured in a gang-style shooting. Also, Len Cutler stays off the streets at DG Boxing and Control Z covers the breaking lawsuit Dude v. Come On. And Criminy!

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Memorialize This!
Rachel Powers hangs out with Iraq War [...]

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The Missing Jawlenskys
Some time in the past 10 years, two paintings by Russian master Alexej Jawlensky went missing from the Long Beach Museum of Art. Theo Douglas examines why—and why after all these years, their disappearance may figure in an upcoming city audit of the museum. Also, dedicated evilists Control Z and a reader-submitted [...]

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And Angels Sing Thee to Thy Rest
They only made one Chris Gaffney, and now we’ve lost him to liver cancer. Chris Ziegler and Theo Douglas remember the 58-year-old roots-rock singer-songwriter, who was equally at home with Cal Smith and the Intruders. Also, Criminy! and Lake Chargoggagoggmanchaugg in Control Z.
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I, the Detective
When someone stole Jenny Stockdale’s [...]

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Shop On?
Bixby Knolls is still slated to get a Marshalls, once they knock down the vacant midcentury modern Roberts department store. But Redevelopment Agency board members are wondering what it will bring to the shopping center besides sales tax revenue. Also, Criminy! and the Department of Uncomfortable Symbolism in Control Z.
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Labor Pains
Eighty-five years ago, [...]

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Happy Face
Chris Pook, who can’t seem to keep a job since he left the Long Beach Grand Prix in 2001, just quit two more: the Sea Festival—which just stiffed the city for $37,000 on one contract—and the Salvation Army fundraising committee, which didn’t give him another. He’s still smiling, though. Also, I, Fink, [...]

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Hip-Hop’s Homeland
Why did Rock Steady breakdance crew members pick the city’s Homeland Cultural Arts Center as the spot to eulogize fallen B-boy Frosty Freeze? Because during the past 19 years, Homeland has quietly become an international hip-hop destination. Theo Douglas reports. And Heather Reger examines the ongoing Long Beach animal shelter shake-up. Also, Hell heat in [...]

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You Say It’s Our Birthday? It’s Your Birthday Too, Yeah
The past 12 months were an Aquarian cycle of temporal delights, coinciding with the launch of the paper you hold in your hands. In 52 issues, we’ve served Long Beach with a song of itself—a weekly song about great bands and restaurants, swinging bars, remarkable [...]

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3 A.M. Eternal
Part conveyance, part destination, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s No. 60 bus rolls through the heart of Long Beach when most of us are asleep. In Breakwater Breakdown, Jenny Stockdale says the oil islands aren’t going anywhere and in Control Z, Chris Ziegler fills his maw with grain aid. Plus Criminy!
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Stop It, Press-Telegram, You’re [...]

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Spring Up O Well
Chris Ziegler interviews Long Beach photographer and musician Matt Wignall about the 10 years he spent looking for America, and how he might have found it on a trip to document the installation of water wells in Africa.
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A Walk Through the Wetlands
The city wants you to take a public opinion survey about [...]

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The 54th Assembly District heats up
Does Bonnie Lowenthal’s early advantage over Tonia Reyes Uranga in their race for the 54th Assembly District seat come from the grass roots—or her family tree? And friends eulogize the late Bryan “Whitey” Littlefield. Plus the war at home in Vector Control.
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When It Comes
Forget the San Andreas, it’s the Newport-Inglewood [...]