FEATURE
Wattschpiel, Watt music, Watt-opera
Chris Ziegler talks to San Pedro bassist Mike Watt–son of the harbor, member of the Minutemen–about his middle-of-life album, wearing bifocals, turning 50 and still learning.

NEWS
Nice Guy Finishes, At Last
There may never be another Tom Hennessy, Dave Wielenga suggests, and that’s because the Press-Telegram is dying–something the columnist never explained during his 27 years as Long Beach’s most prominent journalist. Plus, Breakwater Breakdown, I, Fink and a noose-filled Vector Control.

MUSIC
We Barbarians
Steve Lowery talks to the hard-working We Barbarians. Also: Lamb of God, which takes away the sins of the world, and Moedog Darling will do anything for your love.

ART
Schooled in Song at the Museum of Latin American Art
Rebecca Schoenkopf recommends the Museum of Latin American Art’s local music showcase film Schooled in Song. And Theo Douglas informs you that the city’s graffiti art program lives–and its artists will be repainting the murals at the Homeland Cultural Center in MacArthur park.

FOOD+DRINK
Katella Deli
From challah to pastrami to that most Israeli of delicacies, spaghetti, Miles Clements noshes his way around Katella Deli. Rob Walsh gazes into Denise’s Babyblue, at Iguana Kelly’s. Also: machaca in Sides and Blottery!

DEPT. OF COMMERCE
Bixby Village Golf Course
In an all-Jim Hall blow-out, Hall extols your easy-playin’, fun-havin’ Bixby Village Golf Course. And in Buy Curious, he explores the rapture that is corduroy house slippers at Wal-Mart.

FINE PRINT
The Psychic Temple of the Holy Kiss
Theo Douglas explains what’s next for the former American Hotel–downtown Long Beach’s oldest vacant building.

FILM
We like Juno, with its screenplay by ex-stripper Diablo Cody; we’re fairly indifferent toward The Kite Runner and we’d like to learn more about fashion ponytail-haver Karl Lagerfeld, but Lagerfeld Confidential isn’t that kinda flick.